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Deepak, pardon my thought, we should thank The Print for finding space for such positive news in the midst of all the chaos in the country. I agree U.P. isn’t exactly the ideal place to launch a modern train – nevertheless, I suppose the officials who conceived and executed the project should be lauded for having a futuristic outlook. I couldn’t agree more about the lecherousness of ‘some’ North Indian males but if the experience of Delhi Metro is something to go by, maturity of general public might improve with the passage of time. God bless India .
Road transport has been privatized based on the same logic & we know how they fleece passengers & how unclean the buses are! They also exploit low level staff. Is this going to happen to IR also?
Public Transport Railway and bus service are for ordinary folks and handing over them to private players is anti people. My question is are private players giving good service in airlines, WiFi, phone etc as once they get customers, service take back seat and it slowly turning from bad to worst. If privitisation is good solution, why not allow private players to run government in place politicians. Atleast we don’t need to waste our time and money electing new government every five. Obviously government has accepted its failure to run public utility efficiently and make staff to work
China has the concept of hostesses in the train. They receive the passenger, check tickets, direct the passenger to the seat. And when the train starts, they put on the janitor’s dress, pick up cleaning and mopping tools and work to keep the compartment and washrooms clean. Functional. No showbiz
This is going to end in failure … If market forces are going to dictate the price , then the business owner must be free to change the product / service to adapt to market forces , putting such silly restrictions will result in disaster .
The fare is comparable with Shatabdi. Atleast we can expect better service and clean wash rooms unlike in Shatabdi. This is a first step towards full privatisation. Infact IR should only be responsible for maintaining tracks, signalling and stations properly and private companies can be allowed to get their own rolling stock and run the service. Competition will ultimately make fares affordable and also improve service.
Iam not happy with privitisation of indian railways. People like you are blind supporters of privitisation. Role of private players should be limited to providing amenities on board train, catering , ticketing etc. operations like signalling, guards, loco pilots must be under control of indian railways
All over the world airlines are run by private companies except Air India. And see the results.
its an all AC train, and a long distance one. Ridiculous to have so called hostesses, even in the west trains don’t have this kind of nonsense. You can imagine everything will be filthy.
Does this also mean the food service and catering in many trains is “world class” under “private players”?
Railways is giving all its profitable sections like AC coach trains to private and there is huge scope for corruption
The Train mgr concept is good.
however the dynamic fare may bring loss as the fare touches close to air fare then people go by air.
also each coach should have 2 comode and 2 indian toilets .not present configuration of 1 &3.
This is a good innitiative of the government…. I feel Indian railways need more trains like this. Specially for long distance trains
The first thing Indian railways has to do is to improve standard of passenger ,express and Mail trains.
If railways have to provide better facilities , it should have freedom to increase fares , limiting concessions and subsidies
Hostess ???? That on train???? That on UP ??? Where full of goons, immoral politicians & their endless relatives who belive girls as objects….
What about security of their employees..Leave passengers aside…..
Deepak, pardon my thought, we should thank The Print for finding space for such positive news in the midst of all the chaos in the country. I agree U.P. isn’t exactly the ideal place to launch a modern train – nevertheless, I suppose the officials who conceived and executed the project should be lauded for having a futuristic outlook. I couldn’t agree more about the lecherousness of ‘some’ North Indian males but if the experience of Delhi Metro is something to go by, maturity of general public might improve with the passage of time. God bless India .
Road transport has been privatized based on the same logic & we know how they fleece passengers & how unclean the buses are! They also exploit low level staff. Is this going to happen to IR also?
Public Transport Railway and bus service are for ordinary folks and handing over them to private players is anti people. My question is are private players giving good service in airlines, WiFi, phone etc as once they get customers, service take back seat and it slowly turning from bad to worst. If privitisation is good solution, why not allow private players to run government in place politicians. Atleast we don’t need to waste our time and money electing new government every five. Obviously government has accepted its failure to run public utility efficiently and make staff to work
China has the concept of hostesses in the train. They receive the passenger, check tickets, direct the passenger to the seat. And when the train starts, they put on the janitor’s dress, pick up cleaning and mopping tools and work to keep the compartment and washrooms clean. Functional. No showbiz
This is going to end in failure … If market forces are going to dictate the price , then the business owner must be free to change the product / service to adapt to market forces , putting such silly restrictions will result in disaster .
I think it is a good decision on trail basis,it will change the history of IR,
The fare is comparable with Shatabdi. Atleast we can expect better service and clean wash rooms unlike in Shatabdi. This is a first step towards full privatisation. Infact IR should only be responsible for maintaining tracks, signalling and stations properly and private companies can be allowed to get their own rolling stock and run the service. Competition will ultimately make fares affordable and also improve service.
We common people are happy for Private Train & Privatization of Indian Rail. Well done
Iam not happy with privitisation of indian railways. People like you are blind supporters of privitisation. Role of private players should be limited to providing amenities on board train, catering , ticketing etc. operations like signalling, guards, loco pilots must be under control of indian railways
All over the world airlines are run by private companies except Air India. And see the results.
its an all AC train, and a long distance one. Ridiculous to have so called hostesses, even in the west trains don’t have this kind of nonsense. You can imagine everything will be filthy.
Does this also mean the food service and catering in many trains is “world class” under “private players”?
Railways is giving all its profitable sections like AC coach trains to private and there is huge scope for corruption
What about senior citizen conceation
Two penny socialist Modi doing back door privatization and scared of doing outright privatization
The Train mgr concept is good.
however the dynamic fare may bring loss as the fare touches close to air fare then people go by air.
also each coach should have 2 comode and 2 indian toilets .not present configuration of 1 &3.
Praiseworthy. Most importantly, it will bring cultural changes, in IR and the entire public sector.