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The Indian Railway Story!
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If there is anything else as complex, vast, deep, huge, humongous, intricate, perplexing, confusing and complicated as the Indian Railways, that would...
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be the mind of a woman. Sure, the enterprise is no shining example of Swiss clockwork precision, Japanese technology, Italian glamor or German efficiency, but hey, it gets the job done, doesn’t it? Like getting the vast majority of not-so-affluent Indians from A to B? The Indian Railways is sure caught in a time-warp as this article here says and it’s condition is the pits in most cases – be it the speed, tracks, condition of coaches and stock, antiquated laws, officials and of course, the infamous IRCTC booking website with inept bureaucracy and vote-hungry politicians might be running the system into the ground and all that. But this post and series is not to find the faults with the system but an attempt to see how the entire thing works and what could be done to improve it.The Indian Railways is a hugely complex organization that runs around 10000 trains daily through all states in India except Meghalaya and Sikkim. It operates on over 65,000 km of route track, 88,000 km of running track and around 115,000 km of total trackage (40% of the distance from the earth to the moon). There are 12,000 passenger carrying trains of all types put together running daily, in addition to 386+ million kilometers run by freight trains. The income from passenger services was Rs. 25,792 crore in 2010-2011, and freight income a mind-blowing Rs.62,844 crore! And at any given time, IR has a seating/carrying capacity of 57.3 Lakh people across all trains, out of which 14,41,786 are on locals (xMU).
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