By spending money on new PFs, Pit lines and other basic facilities will not get votes for our politicians... But a shining new station with great looks can.
It's all a matter of show off not passenger benefit.
In Goa, a local MLA/ minister built a world class bus stand which won awards for its design and the MLA showed off in the next election.
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reality, private buses for whom it was built refused to enter the stand instead collected passengers from the entry exit road and continued their journey as they didn't want deviate from their route and take trouble of reversing and parking the bus inside the bus stand. Later to avoid embaressment, the traffic police fined buses for stopping outside the bus stand forcing them to go in.

Our Govt lives in a dream world...
Always over ambitious when the ground realities speak something else...
The concept of Dynamic fares was a disaster... Now they think private trains with dynamic fares will make sense.
How dumb could they be?
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LKO- NDLS is running around 50% empty... Whats the use?
the train is occupying the tracks... They could run an ordinary train like ICE or antodaya which could run with at least 80-90% capacity instead of this.
There is so much rush on these route... It is shameful that our govt is trying to loot us by forcing ppl to travel on premium trains
The railways priority should be to help the poor and middle class travel. The rich can afford a flight from LKO to NDLS. Why is IR starting these pointless premium trains? Just to impress voters?