In the pre independence era, Britishers used to send to India the most shrewd and cunning officers as Viceroy posting like Warren Hastings, lord Dalhousie, lord cunning and others, who could exploit the resources here to fill the British treasury to the maximum extent.
Post independence, tribal regions like CG and Jharkhand, central government continues to send rail officers who have zero concern towards public ailments and only target is to achieve and surpass freight loading targets of past FY. If they can not achieve that target they are given punishment transfer to remote areas.
RB...
more... chairman visited Korba last week; he directly went to the coal siding, didn't even care to meet the local public representatives there. One day prior to his trip, SECR announced to restore 27 of 35 trains which were cancelled month after month from Feb- March, so that public doesn't protests in front of RB chairman. This shows the callousness of officials.
These bastards run Antyodaya trains to other parts of country but when introducing rail service to remote Surguja region they give full AC trains citing the profitlessness of sleeper and general coaches. Matlab freight mein bhi isi region se kamana hai aur passenger trains mein bhi yahi se kamana... baki kolkata metro, patna, delhi jaise regions bas kharcha karne ke liye hain.
When there is 15+ trains between Gorakhpur and Mumbai, there Antyodaya train is given and where there is no single direct connectivity they give full ac train. And when there will be less occupancy owing to any reason they will quote the same to shut down the service.
Hence, their only motto is to suck the blood of public and get revenue targets achieved to maximum extent. This was not the vision with which local public agitated for new rail zone formation in 1994.
There are some sycophants of current central regime here in this platform which support every wrong right move of the government stressing of earning revenue for IR like private bodies...They forget that saving pennies and throwing fortunes in drains ( read Rail infra encroachment and rail ministry setup cost ) will always amount to negative