Two strange non-friendly actions added to idscomfort of people travelling by trains.
a) Stopping of telescopic rates, wherein every extension of journey, one has to buy fresh ticket at higher rate, as compared to earlier 'telescopic distance' tickets or even if travelling by different classes to journey from Point A to C. Example, if from A to B you travel by ACIII and from B to C in AC II tier, you have to buy TWO different tickets at higher cost. Or if you had bought a ticket for travel between A and B, and want to extend it to C, then you have to buy ticket from B to C at a higher cost, as there is NO extension rule now.
b) Some dody rightly mentioned that 30 % of all seats are for TATKAL, for which you have to PAY from Starting station to destination of train !! (and NOT your starting and destination stations).
How you call such acts as people friendly; one fails to understand!!
Not much to talk about corruption; which clings to RAILWAYS like DIRTY coaches. A clerk doing 'today's reservation' on computer at DELHI expects you to pay bribe for vacant seat!!!
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by bandu bondu on Feb 25, 2008 02:17 PM Permalink
Imagine If LALOO would PM of INDIA what happend??? we dont want Whole INDIA to be BIHAR
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by Ashok Gupta on Feb 25, 2008 02:27 PM Permalink
Yes we certainly do not want to regress but are you happy the way things are to-day in the country ? Most of us do not know the North East area which only surfaces when there is anything to do with China. Likewise so many areas exist where development has not reached. Now is the case where people are going to development and not that development is going to the people. The poor are only vote banks and so exploited and the metros are only islands. All these subsidies and poor programmes do not reach them. These people turn to God for survival and have incredible faith - lets think of them and understand that while malls and growth in the cities are OK there are others,who do not get even the basics. We need to respect dignity of labour and fellow beings.
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by bandu bondu on Feb 25, 2008 02:20 PM Permalink
Pahalay BIHARIES to rescue ho jaye. Charo taraf bihares are runnng away. BIhar is the dirtyest state and poorest state and corruptest state in India as well as Asia
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by Prabhakar Kulkarni on Feb 25, 2008 02:58 PM Permalink
We all from other states are cursing Bihar & Biharis. But We are forgetting one important thing that it is a part of India. What are we doing to improve this state?
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by bandu bondu on Feb 25, 2008 02:22 PM Permalink
Pappu what laloo has done for Bihar?? except made a crickert team. what is his contribuation to update Biharies except mnade Pappu yadav,Sabbuddin etc
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by Pappu on Feb 25, 2008 02:24 PM Permalink
do you kow how many STATES are india??? don'r search in good, tell me immd
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by Dhanamjaya S on Feb 25, 2008 03:36 PM Permalink
You are correct on discontinuing of telescopic fares. There is also no break journey.
I have travelled through bihar UP, MP.. There is no reservation system. Anybody and everybody can get into any compartment and occupy any seat, any class..
Maybe the Harvard students, should have travelled by train to Bihar.
Nowadays, a lot of people are travelling for getting employent religious tourism and to eke out a living, especially from Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal say to Mumbai and Delhi. These states are politically still backward as there is no much private enterprise.
