•RPF generally avoid travelling in
unreserved coaches or the coach next to unreserved coaches to help public
board train and control crowd. Most people sit near door itself leading
to passengers in forth coming stations not able to enter. Even TT cannot enter
unreserved coaches to check tickets. Clearly showing the lack of intent of
Railway staff
to find solutions. Make Railway staff stand at station platforms to check the
ticket details once they get down from unreserved coaches. Run fully unreserved
trains at peak hours to fulfill demand.
•It is high time new unreserved coaches are designed for high crowd usage a) More separate seats like buses b) A merge of second sitting design and bus design to have separate seat to accommodate more people. They can sleep by sitting also. If separate seat not possible then second sitting design or EMU design needed for unreserved coaches for more sitting & standing space c) If there are 4 unreserved coaches in a train make one compartment in this model with more sitting space like bus d) This will help more unreserved passengers to sit easily and capacity increases e) The current design of unreserved coaches with long horizontal seats like sleeper berths with space above for luggage doesn’t help in number of passengers sitting since it occupies more space. Currently no space to stand also
•In partially electrified routes, DEMU trains can be run in following routes non stop like suburban. Example: Villupuram(VM) – Thiruvannamalai(TNM), Trichy(TPJ) – Mayiladuthurai( MV) in short trips
•Increase stoppage time at tambaram (TBM) station to 4 minutes since hundreds of passengers need to get on board. The 2 minutes extra can be covered by trains by the stretch from Chennai Egmore to tambaram and also after tambaram also. But current 2 minutes is not enough. People feel that railways wastes time in crossing at signals but when people need to get on train they don’t give sufficient stoppage time and cover in journey time by increase in speed of 10kmph
•Please change tatkal system to book 3 days before itself. Current 1 day before leads to lot of anxiety whether we will get ticket or not. If some very important meeting is there then people tend to suffer as their plans go hay wire. A long distance traveller who travels more than 600 kms tends to be benefitted since once he gets down he may need to get return ticket by tatkal to return. So 3 days will be optimal for short(starts on Friday/Saturday and returns on Sunday) and long distance to plan.
•To stop menace in EQ quota for both Railway staff and other Govt staff. All EQ tickets must be charged only at tatkal fare. The difference of fare between booked ticket charge and tatkal must be taken by TT.
•Railways must also consider allotting 4 seats per coach for premium fare(premium tatkal) in 3 A/C with booking starting before 14 days with base fare as tatkal ticket. The tickets which are not sold can be added to tatkal quota by system on day before. There is huge demand for 3A/C but Railways if gives tickets in premium rate in normal trains also it will be hit for those who can afford. 14 days was by best calculation with scenarios.
•The doors in A/C compartments must be made sliding doors since current system is causing difficulty to passengers to sleep. Since in the each end of compartment the doors hit the legs of sleeping passengers leading to very high uneasiness to sleep. This needs to be corrected to sliding doors so that the passengers inside are not affected at any cost. It feels like we have done a sin by booking A/C ticket since people keep entering and going near door. The sliding door with automatic shutting will help. The current system of door opening around hinges hits the legs of sleeping passengers the full night sleep is lost. Sleep is more valuable than the A/C ticket. Ask ICF, Kapurthala and Bhopal factory to redesign coaches.
•Ponmalai Railway workshop in Trichy, TamilNadu has experience in building/maintaining coaches/compartments. Hence the space available with Railways is plenty to convert it as a Railway Coach maintenance yard cum manufacturing yard. The ponmalai workshop has record for building highest number of freight wagons more than 1000 per year. Their hard work and perfect delivery of goods is an easy choice to make it as a coach manufacturing hub. The need for coaches is increasing daily. If the project is given ok, it should be automated entirely by Siemens and other robotic arms to build coaches in record time. Compared to the demand for coaches the Railways produces very less. And the current govt has not been successfully in running any new trains in ordinary fares. So that is a very big minus till now. So more coaches will ease pressure to run more trains. Even though we have lot of time available for efficient track usage the lack of coaches if a big minus to the growing population.
•There is huge demand for 2A/C as more people came out of middle class. But Railways keeps adding only 3A/C which is very cramped and lacks facilities compared to 2A/C. The 2A/C coaches would have made Railways a cash rich organisation but poor strategy by Railway board led to such a situation of targeting the sleeper class fares. Have a target of adding one 2A/C coach in key trains which have very high demand.
•Please allot senior citizens quota for A/C chair car and second class sitting in all the type of trains (Duronto, Shatabdi, Rajdhani) and all reserved coaches in passenger trains.
•Need for more trains between Mumbai to Shirdi and Pune to Shirdi. The number of trains are very less in this high demand route in spite of high tourist visit daily. How Railways purposefully ignored the tourist and religious route is astonishing. Please deploy more trains with daily twice on all days. People from other parts of the country can use them after reaching Mumbai.
•Railways must take up social welfare causes a) Using IRCTC portal to take donations for various agencies and during floods/emergencies to distribute directly by collecting through IRCTC portal by giving details of address to courier so that Railways can dispatch directly by Coordinating with Central Govt & State Govt b) Many beggars are present in the suburban trains daily. Even transgender behave badly and force public to shell out money for them. Govt must work out strategy to rehabilitate them by giving work in Railways like selling products, cleaning stations. This Is a possible fix. Also working with NGO in each state to work out a solution for this issue. Children begging is an offence but Railways space like platform, stations and trains used for begging must be seen very seriously. Railways must work with multi agencies like UN, NGO, State Govt, RPF to rehabilitate children in schools, adults or parents of those begging children in work of Railways as contract work.
•Passenger train no 56860 from Villupuram (VM) to Tambaram (TBM) remains unutilised for more than 10 hours in TBM in day time. The train can be instead used to run between TBM to TPTY(Thirupathi) as express passenger via Gudur. The loss to Railways due to under utilisation can be avoided.
•It is high time new unreserved coaches are designed for high crowd usage a) More separate seats like buses b) A merge of second sitting design and bus design to have separate seat to accommodate more people. They can sleep by sitting also. If separate seat not possible then second sitting design or EMU design needed for unreserved coaches for more sitting & standing space c) If there are 4 unreserved coaches in a train make one compartment in this model with more sitting space like bus d) This will help more unreserved passengers to sit easily and capacity increases e) The current design of unreserved coaches with long horizontal seats like sleeper berths with space above for luggage doesn’t help in number of passengers sitting since it occupies more space. Currently no space to stand also
•In partially electrified routes, DEMU trains can be run in following routes non stop like suburban. Example: Villupuram(VM) – Thiruvannamalai(TNM), Trichy(TPJ) – Mayiladuthurai( MV) in short trips
•Increase stoppage time at tambaram (TBM) station to 4 minutes since hundreds of passengers need to get on board. The 2 minutes extra can be covered by trains by the stretch from Chennai Egmore to tambaram and also after tambaram also. But current 2 minutes is not enough. People feel that railways wastes time in crossing at signals but when people need to get on train they don’t give sufficient stoppage time and cover in journey time by increase in speed of 10kmph
•Please change tatkal system to book 3 days before itself. Current 1 day before leads to lot of anxiety whether we will get ticket or not. If some very important meeting is there then people tend to suffer as their plans go hay wire. A long distance traveller who travels more than 600 kms tends to be benefitted since once he gets down he may need to get return ticket by tatkal to return. So 3 days will be optimal for short(starts on Friday/Saturday and returns on Sunday) and long distance to plan.
•To stop menace in EQ quota for both Railway staff and other Govt staff. All EQ tickets must be charged only at tatkal fare. The difference of fare between booked ticket charge and tatkal must be taken by TT.
•Railways must also consider allotting 4 seats per coach for premium fare(premium tatkal) in 3 A/C with booking starting before 14 days with base fare as tatkal ticket. The tickets which are not sold can be added to tatkal quota by system on day before. There is huge demand for 3A/C but Railways if gives tickets in premium rate in normal trains also it will be hit for those who can afford. 14 days was by best calculation with scenarios.
•The doors in A/C compartments must be made sliding doors since current system is causing difficulty to passengers to sleep. Since in the each end of compartment the doors hit the legs of sleeping passengers leading to very high uneasiness to sleep. This needs to be corrected to sliding doors so that the passengers inside are not affected at any cost. It feels like we have done a sin by booking A/C ticket since people keep entering and going near door. The sliding door with automatic shutting will help. The current system of door opening around hinges hits the legs of sleeping passengers the full night sleep is lost. Sleep is more valuable than the A/C ticket. Ask ICF, Kapurthala and Bhopal factory to redesign coaches.
•Ponmalai Railway workshop in Trichy, TamilNadu has experience in building/maintaining coaches/compartments. Hence the space available with Railways is plenty to convert it as a Railway Coach maintenance yard cum manufacturing yard. The ponmalai workshop has record for building highest number of freight wagons more than 1000 per year. Their hard work and perfect delivery of goods is an easy choice to make it as a coach manufacturing hub. The need for coaches is increasing daily. If the project is given ok, it should be automated entirely by Siemens and other robotic arms to build coaches in record time. Compared to the demand for coaches the Railways produces very less. And the current govt has not been successfully in running any new trains in ordinary fares. So that is a very big minus till now. So more coaches will ease pressure to run more trains. Even though we have lot of time available for efficient track usage the lack of coaches if a big minus to the growing population.
•There is huge demand for 2A/C as more people came out of middle class. But Railways keeps adding only 3A/C which is very cramped and lacks facilities compared to 2A/C. The 2A/C coaches would have made Railways a cash rich organisation but poor strategy by Railway board led to such a situation of targeting the sleeper class fares. Have a target of adding one 2A/C coach in key trains which have very high demand.
•Please allot senior citizens quota for A/C chair car and second class sitting in all the type of trains (Duronto, Shatabdi, Rajdhani) and all reserved coaches in passenger trains.
•Need for more trains between Mumbai to Shirdi and Pune to Shirdi. The number of trains are very less in this high demand route in spite of high tourist visit daily. How Railways purposefully ignored the tourist and religious route is astonishing. Please deploy more trains with daily twice on all days. People from other parts of the country can use them after reaching Mumbai.
•Railways must take up social welfare causes a) Using IRCTC portal to take donations for various agencies and during floods/emergencies to distribute directly by collecting through IRCTC portal by giving details of address to courier so that Railways can dispatch directly by Coordinating with Central Govt & State Govt b) Many beggars are present in the suburban trains daily. Even transgender behave badly and force public to shell out money for them. Govt must work out strategy to rehabilitate them by giving work in Railways like selling products, cleaning stations. This Is a possible fix. Also working with NGO in each state to work out a solution for this issue. Children begging is an offence but Railways space like platform, stations and trains used for begging must be seen very seriously. Railways must work with multi agencies like UN, NGO, State Govt, RPF to rehabilitate children in schools, adults or parents of those begging children in work of Railways as contract work.
•Passenger train no 56860 from Villupuram (VM) to Tambaram (TBM) remains unutilised for more than 10 hours in TBM in day time. The train can be instead used to run between TBM to TPTY(Thirupathi) as express passenger via Gudur. The loss to Railways due to under utilisation can be avoided.
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