Indian Railways Needs And Suggestions

1.  New Survey Lines

2.  Electrification Projects

3.  Bye Pass Lines

4.  New Trains

5.  Increasing Frequency

6.  Extension of Trains

I. New Survey Line:

1. Kodaikanal - Tamilnadu:  As you are aware of kodaikanal a hill station in tamilnadu is visited by numerous tourists throughout the year. However as of date the tourists depend upon road commutation to reach hill top from the neareast railway heads, kodaikanal road or dindigul. So a feasibility/preliminary study may be undertaken to have rail connectivity from either kodaikanal road or dindigul.

2. Doubling & Electrification - Jhansi - Kanpur: The existing single line between jhansi and kanpur has since saturated. It is high time that railways take up the doubling of this stretch including electrification.

3. Doubling & Electrification - Tiruchirapalli - Thanjavur :The twin towns of tiruchirappalli and thanjavur the railway lines be doubled with electification. Since lot of commuters travel for work and education purposes.

II. Electrification Projects:
The following routes may be electrified at the earliest:

1. Bangalore - Salem - Electrification:The stretch between bangalore and salem may be electrified at the earliest.

2.  The main line between villipuram and tiruchirapalli may be electrified via thanjavur.

3. The long pending thirumalpur - Arakonnam electrification project may be completed at the earliest.

III. Bye-Pass Line

1. TamilNadu - Between Paranar and palur bye-passing chengalpattu: To provide an alternative route from chennai to kerala, bangalore, mumbai and coimbatore site trains bye-pass near chengalpattu will be laid. Between paranur and palur. This will enable running of circular trains as and when near thirumalpur, arakonnam electrification project is completed.

2. Andhra Pradesh: The erstwhile bye-pass line at gudur which was removed may be restored to enable the railways to run circular trains from chennai to thirupathi via sri kalahasthi and renigunta.

3. Ponmalai - Srirangam - TamilNadu-  The ongoing bye-pass work at ponmalai work at golden work be speeded up to run trains from Thanjavur and Chennai via srirangam.

4. Srirangam - Trichy Fort  - A feasibility study to lay a bye-pass line between srirangam and trichy fort involving construction of bridge across the river cauvery may be carried out.

5. Dharmapuri District - Tamilnadu - No Train Connectivity: The new line project/ bye-pass project between marapur and dharmapuri may be speeded upto run a direct train from chennai to dharmapuri. The only district in tamilnadu which is not connected by any train service other than krishnagiri.

IV. New Trains

1. Nav Bharath Express- A set/series(atleast 12 pairs) of super fast trains on the lines of Shatabdhi, Jan Shatabdhi, Garibh Rath, Sampark Kranthi, Premium trains(A/C), double decker, rajya rani etc,. may be introduced between important cities/state capitals, etc,. as inter city day expresses or overnight expresses or long distance trains.

 These set of trains be named as Nav Bharath express.

2. Neel Kamal Express - Jodhpur - Madurai or trichy: The proposed jodhpur - mannarkudi weekly expresses may be run between jodhpur and (nagarkovil or madurai or tiruchirapalli). The train can be named as Neel Kamal Express, Jodhpur being blue city and madurai for the famous meenakshi amman temple with the symbolic lotus flower in the pond and also symbolising BJP. In case the train is run between trichy and jodhpur the days of service can be on thursdays tx.ex jodhpur and monday or tuesday ex. tpj. Timings: Jodhpur 14:00 - trichy on saturday at 6:00 PM. Leaving trichy on monday/tuesday at 6:00 AM reaching jodhpur on wednesday/thursday at 10:00 AM.

3. A link express either from velankannai or nagore may run upto bangalore via trichy connecting nagarkovil - bangalore express at karur with departure bep at evening 6 pm daily. Karur arrival at 23:00 hrs on it's journey towards bangalore and 23:45 hrs on the return direction. Convenient and adequate platform vacancy during this time if available.

4. The chennai egmore - nagarkovil weekly express may be made a daily train.The existing rake (Madras MS-JU Jodhpur) can be utilised to increase the frequency of silambu express.

5. The by-weekly madurai - egmore super fast express via thanjavur may be made a daily train.

6. Existing rake (MDU Madurai - MZM Nizamuddin) be utilised to run madurai - tirupathi bi-weekly express.

7. The idling rake of semmozhli express at mannarkudi may be utilised to run inter city express from mannarkudi - dindigul - chennai.

8. Weekly train from chennai - bangalore via salem and dharmapuri may be run either via katpadi or virudhachalam may be named as Hoganekkal express.

9. Shirdi Shuttle - Daily shuttle between shirdi nagar - Pune for devotees of Shirdi Sai baba.

10. New trains from srirangam to chennai egmore via thanjavur be run.

11. Overnight Fast Passenger between chennai egmore and thanjavur can be run and be named as Brihadeeswarar fast passenger.

12. A new weekly express train or a fast passenger named as Karthikeya Express or Aru padai veedu express (6 Houses of Lord Muruga) connecting the six temples of Lord muruga namely Thiruthani, Swamimalai, Thirupparamkunram, Pazhamudircholai (Madurai) and  Tiruchendur with connection to Coimbatore (Marudamalai) via Palani at Dindigul.

The same rake may be utilised to run a Pancha Bhoodham express connecting Trichy(Thiruvanaikaval - Water), Chidambaram - Sky, Thiruvannamalai- Fire , Kancheepuram - Land and Kala Hasthi - Wind all having temples for Lord Shiva.

13. Nagpur - Chennai and named as Orange City Express

Increasing Frequency:

1. The weekly Garibh Rath Express between chennai central - Nizamuddin may be made a bi-weekly train.

Extension of Trains:

1. Brindavan express may be extended upto mysore on both the directions.

2. They mayiladhuthurai - trichy express may be extended to madurai and named as poombukar express.

3. The weekly express train between chennai - neyveli may be introduced as weekend express.

4. Chennai - Chidambaram and named as thillai express.

5. Chennai - Thiruvannamalai as annamalaiyar express.

• Premium Express trains should be available for booking by all modes i.e. Reservation counter also and the booking period should be increased to 30 days from 10 days. Currently it is restricted to online only and many are cancelled for non occupancy.
• New Set of trains named Nav Bharath trains can be launched connecting various regions of the country on the lines of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and other trains.
• An alternative bye-pass line is the need from connecting from Chengalpattu to Paranur & Palur railway station. The bye-pass line will help trains from Chennai to Bangalore, Mumbai and Kerala side trains.
• Travellator or Moving walkway similar along with extra space on the sides similar to the ones used in Indira Gandhi airport should be constructed to connect Park Town MRTS station in Chennai to Chennai Central railway station. Public find it difficult to catch trains as they have to walk across a bridge which is risky due to heavy vehicle movement.
• Chennai MRTS work between Velachery and St. Thomas mount is pending for more than 8 years needs to cleared from all judicial problems or connected to a new route to Alandur.
• Several gauge systems used in urban transportation affects repeated use of same rolling stock. Please recommend and increase funding to TN govt to construct Metro lines instead of Mono Rails. To effectively link all metro lines in future and to use same coaches and material repeatedly. The centre has also released funds for 1st phase of mono but work is yet to start.

Thanks

Venkatasubramanian B

Twitter: @bvenkat

Passenger Aircraft Production in India

1. Make in India will get a major boost if passenger aircrafts are manufactured in India.

2. Government must notify guidelines and requirements for private industries in India interested in manufacturing to start production after necessary clearance. The manufacturing should have 70% equity from India and remaining from abroad if utmost required to project that India can work on such a complex project without outside support. Government must supply or fund a certain portion so that it can reap the benefit of the success of the output and hold license and Air India can be supplied aircraft at low cost from that.

3. HAL has started working on it but facing too many hurdles due to cost and non strong support from govt and skilled persons. The Kaveri engine is a mighty effort but not in full steam. Maybe ISRO can help them with the engines.

4. HAL has avoided private partnership it is good since there are chanced data will be leaked. Private companies like L&T, Mahindra, Tata have expertise in design, IT and other factors which will cause a great increase in manufacturing in India. Govt must allow public and private to work independently but speed up the process considering the skill and needs of the country.

5. Boeing and Airbus are dominating the world aircraft market for such a long time and Indian companies are severely stressed by the cost & wait time & demand for these company aircrafts. Indian companies must be created a favourable environment to compete with them in long term. If work is cleared now by at least 2020 work will start since very huge manpower, R&D, space is required and by 2025 we can have our own aircraft with Made by India tag. And in future will gain with experience and testing the necessary modifications in design required to suit all needs. By 2030 we can be proud of a successful aircraft with all modern features.

6. The aircraft engines are dominated by only two companies in the whole world Rolls Royce and another, a engine developed indigenously will greatly bring in lot of respect & will power to the youth of the nation that we can achieve mighty tasks. ISRO, IISc, HAL and air force should separately work on engines. At the same time private companies should collaborate among themselves and also students and IT professionals and experienced persons from abroad primarily NRI’s instead of waiting for private equity from outside India. NRI’s who have done M.S. and working abroad can be pulled only private industries since they can provide the salary necessary but not govt. Govt must just clear the background check and other clearance before they work on this project which is of national importance. An aircraft engine developed can earn several crores of revenue from outside market.

7. While manufacturing none of the intellectual rights should be violated since most of the aircraft principles have been patented several years back by the major manufacturers.

8. The manufacturing of Aircraft requires several IT professionals to virtually design various parts which will be a big boost of IT in india. The many IT companies already work for several companies hence they can be used for this project. Hence the manufacturers should integrate with the IT companies to complete the project.


9. If the project can be started several versions like smaller version of executive aircrafts must also be started in India.

10. Government must form a committe with private and public and frame rules for the production.


Thanks
Venkatasubramanian B
Twitter: @bvenkat

e-Governance projects for India

1. Public Distribution Systems (PDS) and other free ration methods of different states must be brought under a single system to monitor expenditure on food by state and central govt. Aadhaar and ration cards and pan card must be linked to this new system. If the person has more than enough income by checking his pan card then his ration card need not be seized but he will not be eligible for any of the free rice or goods or any of the subsidies like free TV or free laptops, etc. This will lead to cut in subsidies and only poor will be benefitted. The central govt must instruct states to use this system for subsidy distribution and say if any violation then the funds or any help from central will be reduced accordingly. Food corporation of India can also judge the demands accordingly for food.

2. New e-Governance project to monitor job employment throughout the country must be developed. All those who are already employed must be registered by the companies themselves and those who are resigned or fired the company must take action to make an entry in the system. This will lead to more better job forecasting and the issues in different fields can be identified. The job employment is the major factor used by federal reserve to target interest rates but RBI depends only on inflation data since employment data is not properly available from each state government. Those in college and after 10th and 12th their mark sheet and score needs to be updated automatically to this system by using the aadhaar card of the student to better track the job prospects. If any student is going out of India his entry must be made on this system since he is going to do his M.S. and India needs to improve on which field he is going to do M.S in India by creating new universities and courses and improving R&D in govt colleges and institutions.

3. Linking of passport, Pan card, Ration card, School id, college id, employee id, School and college mark sheets to Aadhaar will give more conclusive idea and analytics can be used to judge various needs of the public like the salary of entire family and the subsidies to the family given unwantedly if above middle class due to wrong policies. Aadhaar will help avoid all wrong policies and misdirected subsidies.

4. All crime records of all criminals must be centralised by using finger print and aadhaar and shared to all state govt to track criminals who currently escape from one state and move to another to work.

5. New e-Governance project to bring each district in all states in India under a new website to raise grievances, suggestions, enquiries with government. A new centralised grievance toll free number to get help on any issues and get all work fast tracked. Currently there are too many websites for each state and department of central govt and too little awareness among public . If they are centralised then centre and state can work together and also public can participate in good governance and prevent repeated issues like roads, water, sanitation, etc.