•Railways must consider implementing fee
of Rs.20 on A/C tickets
of 3A/C, 40 for 2A/C, 50 for 1 A/C in order to develop railway stations. The
amount
must
be split into 3 for the departure station(30%), the destination station(30%) development
and remaining
20%
for other stations in the region from departure and 20% for destination region (where
DEMU/EMU/passenger trains stop). This funds must not be used for giving salary
for Railway staff or normal operations. The funds must be clearly
split up by Finance dept.
•This concept of development of railway station will be called crowd funding with help of funds from the rich and upper middle class who travel in A/C classed like A/C sleeper 3AC,2AC,1AC, Chair Car, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, etc,. If you put same Rs.20 it would create problems as politicians will raise issue but for A/C nobody can make any comments. A/C is not affecting poor any way. All tickets booked by MP & MLA must be charged Rs.50 flat irrespective of class they must contribute to nation building.
•The funds must be separated from the other Railway funds and must be marked for station development and activities identified by consultation with travellers. Mostly these funds can be used for development of stations where the express trains stop. The other stations in which passenger trains stop can be developed with the portion of the funds as the poor use passenger trains only. Express train stops in which most passengers get down can be developed faster with these funds from tickets. Don’t add this charge to sleeper fares to avoid political backlash.
•For example the funds of Rs.20 per seat * 72 (No of seats per Chair Car) * 30 days (roughly 1 trip per day) = Roughly 40,000 per coach. This fund can be put to good use. On average if a train has 3 A/C coaches it will go into lakhs in a month. Every 3 months funds can be though out on which project can be utilised. Another Example: If you take any train which has sleeper coaches on an average it will have 3 coaches consider 1 for 2A/C 1 or 3A/C the total seats is 110 seats * 20(per seat) * 30 days (roughly 1 per day) = 66,000 per coach. The funds will supplement the usual allocation from Ministry faster.
•The railway IRCTC must be automated to deposit the amount automatically based on the passenger ticket to concerned funds. The funds must be credited daily at end of day to concerned station, region and division. The same must be available for display in online portal for public to see to avoid unwanted repeated RTI. In IRCTC portal also in case booked online must be displayed in the account of the user itself on the money credited.
•Actually this will help faster development of stations in the region instead of Railway minister and ministry saying there is lack of funds year after year to deny public the facilities. And private wont invest in all stations so this concept will development without depending on anyone but crowd sourced by the upper middle class to develop stations. And also we need to go and ask state govt to sign up for JV and other compulsions.
•These funds must be utilised with acceptance of suggestions of MP, MLA, public feedback, Passenger association, Railway unions before implementing any project. The project plan must be put up for public union by press release in the concerned railway authority and through twitter handles. This will lead to transparency. The decision of the Railway authorities will be final but suggestions must be taken and clarified every 3 months before taking decision and the minutes of meeting must be released as press release in concerned authority. Even if decision to wait for more funds to accumulate also must be conveyed if amount is not feasible to use. Since each major station there is a passenger welfare association so discussion will help.
•The facilities which can be implemented with these funds are a) X-Ray Machines b) Hand held scanner devices c) Unreserved ticket booking machines with helper staff to ease crowd at counters and help illiterate to book also d) Cost of deploying security in sensitive areas with CRPF or Army e) Lifts f) Trolleys to carry baggage's from end of platform to another g) Escalators(Important) h) Purified Refillable water near every 2 train coaches i) Wheelchairs j) Retiring Rooms k) Rooms to stay near tourist spots l) Mosquito repellent/killer light in railway premises m) CCTV Cameras n) Free Wi-Fi o) Display TV p) Parking Facility for Bikes & Cars q) LED running display without TV in platform to indicate next train no, destination, coach number r) Dustbins s) New terminal Development t) Platform cleaning devices u) Golf Cart electric vehicles for elderly to travel easily from one platform to another with lifts of larger size for vehicles to also travel v) Fitting of bio-toilets in requested trains w) Retiring rooms with A/C and good bathroom facilities x) Retiring hotels in major tourist destinations in railway premises with funds accrued over a long time.
•Railways charge very high rates for tatkal but no funds from that where deployed in station deployment. And once in 5 years Railways put one lift or an escalator but the time you put escalators and lifts in all stations and all platforms in express train stops even Kenya will become a developed country. So increase speed of development in the country and also to crowd fund the new method of financing. Please raise platform height of pamban, mandapam camp railway station near Rameswaram to BG height
•We need not go and beg to any funding organisation for our projects. Indians are not poor we are capable of building our country. The compulsions of world bank post loan from them are under lying and Indian economy will suffer by that. Railways taking billions of loans from world bank at high interest rate will affect Indian Economy.
•This concept of development of railway station will be called crowd funding with help of funds from the rich and upper middle class who travel in A/C classed like A/C sleeper 3AC,2AC,1AC, Chair Car, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, etc,. If you put same Rs.20 it would create problems as politicians will raise issue but for A/C nobody can make any comments. A/C is not affecting poor any way. All tickets booked by MP & MLA must be charged Rs.50 flat irrespective of class they must contribute to nation building.
•The funds must be separated from the other Railway funds and must be marked for station development and activities identified by consultation with travellers. Mostly these funds can be used for development of stations where the express trains stop. The other stations in which passenger trains stop can be developed with the portion of the funds as the poor use passenger trains only. Express train stops in which most passengers get down can be developed faster with these funds from tickets. Don’t add this charge to sleeper fares to avoid political backlash.
•For example the funds of Rs.20 per seat * 72 (No of seats per Chair Car) * 30 days (roughly 1 trip per day) = Roughly 40,000 per coach. This fund can be put to good use. On average if a train has 3 A/C coaches it will go into lakhs in a month. Every 3 months funds can be though out on which project can be utilised. Another Example: If you take any train which has sleeper coaches on an average it will have 3 coaches consider 1 for 2A/C 1 or 3A/C the total seats is 110 seats * 20(per seat) * 30 days (roughly 1 per day) = 66,000 per coach. The funds will supplement the usual allocation from Ministry faster.
•The railway IRCTC must be automated to deposit the amount automatically based on the passenger ticket to concerned funds. The funds must be credited daily at end of day to concerned station, region and division. The same must be available for display in online portal for public to see to avoid unwanted repeated RTI. In IRCTC portal also in case booked online must be displayed in the account of the user itself on the money credited.
•Actually this will help faster development of stations in the region instead of Railway minister and ministry saying there is lack of funds year after year to deny public the facilities. And private wont invest in all stations so this concept will development without depending on anyone but crowd sourced by the upper middle class to develop stations. And also we need to go and ask state govt to sign up for JV and other compulsions.
•These funds must be utilised with acceptance of suggestions of MP, MLA, public feedback, Passenger association, Railway unions before implementing any project. The project plan must be put up for public union by press release in the concerned railway authority and through twitter handles. This will lead to transparency. The decision of the Railway authorities will be final but suggestions must be taken and clarified every 3 months before taking decision and the minutes of meeting must be released as press release in concerned authority. Even if decision to wait for more funds to accumulate also must be conveyed if amount is not feasible to use. Since each major station there is a passenger welfare association so discussion will help.
•The facilities which can be implemented with these funds are a) X-Ray Machines b) Hand held scanner devices c) Unreserved ticket booking machines with helper staff to ease crowd at counters and help illiterate to book also d) Cost of deploying security in sensitive areas with CRPF or Army e) Lifts f) Trolleys to carry baggage's from end of platform to another g) Escalators(Important) h) Purified Refillable water near every 2 train coaches i) Wheelchairs j) Retiring Rooms k) Rooms to stay near tourist spots l) Mosquito repellent/killer light in railway premises m) CCTV Cameras n) Free Wi-Fi o) Display TV p) Parking Facility for Bikes & Cars q) LED running display without TV in platform to indicate next train no, destination, coach number r) Dustbins s) New terminal Development t) Platform cleaning devices u) Golf Cart electric vehicles for elderly to travel easily from one platform to another with lifts of larger size for vehicles to also travel v) Fitting of bio-toilets in requested trains w) Retiring rooms with A/C and good bathroom facilities x) Retiring hotels in major tourist destinations in railway premises with funds accrued over a long time.
•Railways charge very high rates for tatkal but no funds from that where deployed in station deployment. And once in 5 years Railways put one lift or an escalator but the time you put escalators and lifts in all stations and all platforms in express train stops even Kenya will become a developed country. So increase speed of development in the country and also to crowd fund the new method of financing. Please raise platform height of pamban, mandapam camp railway station near Rameswaram to BG height
•We need not go and beg to any funding organisation for our projects. Indians are not poor we are capable of building our country. The compulsions of world bank post loan from them are under lying and Indian economy will suffer by that. Railways taking billions of loans from world bank at high interest rate will affect Indian Economy.
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