Not strictly about railways, more about security and violence on trains. Sickening incident, that's all India needs apart from so many other problems. Stupid, drunken passengers attacking and killing ticket officers.
Tte Pushed To Death From Train By Drunk Passenger | Kochi News - Times of India
TTE Vinod was killed by a passenger without a ticket on Ernakulam-Patna train. The accused, Rajanikanth, was inebriated. Security risks on running tratimesofindia.indiatimes.com
imagine cracking an exam to get a govt job and working 9hrs a day for your family just to be thrown out of train by a drunkard. damn...Not strictly about railways, more about security and violence on trains. Sickening incident, that's all India needs apart from so many other problems. Stupid, drunken passengers attacking and killing ticket officers.
Tte Pushed To Death From Train By Drunk Passenger | Kochi News - Times of India
TTE Vinod was killed by a passenger without a ticket on Ernakulam-Patna train. The accused, Rajanikanth, was inebriated. Security risks on running tratimesofindia.indiatimes.com
Twitter threads for the interested,Eastern DFC is running at 65 percent of planned capacity without any section in West Bengal having been built yet and without any ports. That should tell you something. The demand projection for things like coal, steel, cement was off especially for the gangetic plains.
And this planning kerfuffle happened in Modi 1. Just look at the electricity demand projection numbers from 2016.
Solution is actually a massive track expansion in northern and central India supported by the Union budget because railways doesn't have the money to invest.
Power ministry based on 2016-17 number for peak demand of 162GW projected that India would have a peak demand of 224GW in 2022-23. Guess what was the peak electricity demand in india last year? It was 243 GW. All this demand was met by more coal usage for which track capacity had not been planned. Even for this year the electricity demand projection was 5.2 percent but the growth in electricity demand was 7 percent. Track capacity addition is always a good thing. But I guess the Indian government has to overbuild the track capacity given how off the demand projections have been. Better to build extra tracks than try to choose between overcrowded undignified passenger train travel and rolling blackout.
Passengers are down because they have cut down passenger train capacity, not because demand is down. Why do you think demand will be down 20% vs pre pandemic levels when the economy is around 10% bigger?
And the visuals we see of the crowded trains validate that this is not just a case of declining demand, but it is also one of unmet demand.
(For 2013-24, I think it's close to flat vs 2018-19 ex suburban passengers).
By 2022-23, freight volumes were up nearly 20% vs 2018-19. That's only possible if you cut down on passenger capacity.
Passenger trains in Eastern Railways at the moment are running in 'bhagwan bharose' mode.More on railways,
Twitter threads for the interested,
@Haldilal this is why you have encroachers in the reserved coaches of those eastbound trains.
@another_armchair @ezsasa
Remember that time when we discussed how the IR underestimated the need of higher capex? Now it is just a giant clusterfuck of sort...
In a way this is eerily reminiscent of the NPA mess of NDA 1; they are paying the prices for the wrongdoings of their predecessors (in this case, the Lalus and tha Mamatas). Worse, they have no freaking clue how to take it up (because their demand projections are borderline garbage tier) and the Minister keeps downplaying the crisis in public.
didn't look into all of it, did look into this one.More on railways,
Twitter threads for the interested,
@Haldilal this is why you have encroachers in the reserved coaches of those eastbound trains.
@another_armchair @ezsasa
Remember that time when we discussed how the IR underestimated the need of higher capex? Now it is just a giant clusterfuck of sort...
In a way this is eerily reminiscent of the NPA mess of NDA 1; they are paying the prices for the wrongdoings of their predecessors (in this case, the Lalus and tha Mamatas). Worse, they have no freaking clue how to take it up (because their demand projections are borderline garbage tier) and the Minister keeps downplaying the crisis in public.
Is it like this every day?