Modernisation of railways

Indian railways are without a question of doubt, the hottest lifeline of Indian economy. Dvided into 16 zones and spread over a route length of 65,808 Km (40,892 mi) and carrying over 23 million passengers everyday throughout the nation, it's easily the most popular and preferred mode of transportation among the Indian folks.

Besides, Indian railways is also the largest extended transportation network of the world and also the Seventh largest commercial employer in the world and largest public sector employer.

It won't be wrong to say that ever since its inception back in 1857, Indian railways is the only infrastructure that has went on developing and living upto the expectations and aspirations of mass public which is clearly the reason it has all those menioned accolades to its name.

Reading across articles and following the developments it's sound to say that never has the development in this sector been more high-paced and steep as it is now, under our current Railway minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu.

Ranging from the formulation of a successful bullet train plan (by taking loan from Japan worth Rs 1 lakh crores at an interest of 0.1% for 50 years, that's a great deal. Isn't it?) to emphasing on the cleanliness of coaches and ivstigating the problems himself by travelling in local trains, this guy is doing everything he can to elevate the railways' status.

The results of this are showing as the revenue of railways is on the way up and as the revenue rate under the current government has jumped upto 12% which is really great for the sector.

Now, just for the case, I have been out of blogging action for quite some time due to whatever reasons, but during this time i went through few journals and articles which headlined and covered the rapid developments in our railways structure.

But the fact is all these developments and hardwork being done behind the scenes of this sector is highly underrated and underappreciated.
So, I felt the need to write about this issue.

But saying that, the room for development is endless be it any field and so is the case with our railways, we are in need of some good ideas which can not only increase the feasibility of this sector to general public, add to the global appeal but at the same time be equally beneficial to the passengers.

One such idea that I came across which i feel should reach out to all of you is ---  The addition of a Medical Utility Coach to the trains.

Now this, as simple as it sounds, can go a long way towards furthur revolutionarizing our railways sector.

This becomes highly significant in long-distance trains.
Now imagine a scenario when you are in a long-distance train travel and suddenly you get down the hooke with some sort of medical illness, so, having something sort of a Medical Utility Coach in the train can go a long way in provinding efficient health security to the passengers.
Also this could well be the first such approach ever implemented in railways all over the globe.

Besides this, this can also help generate few important public sector jobs in this field.

Also, the coaches need to be made a lot fire-proof than what they are now, the fire sensors and control system need to be implemented in our trains as there have been many cases of sevre casualities due to fire in trains, most recent is the fire in Rajdhani Express (in 2015).

Overall comfort of the passengers is what needs to be increased in the trains (thiis being one of the main reasons people tend to choose flights over trains besides the time issue).

But for all these things to happen, the revenue of Indian Railways need to increase substantially than what is being generated now.

This can be achieved by implementing few steps such as-- Cutting down the fuel cost by moving towards cheaper and much cleaner fuels such as biogas.
Also, the railways can start door to door commercial parcel deleivery system at a reasonable rate.

They can also change the ticketing system to be much more efficient and dynamic pricing system should be implemented to make the rates much more flexible as per demands.
This can surely help the railways in increasing its revenue significantly so that it can meet up and keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of public.

Saying that, we must admit the fact that Indian Railways is surely the best structured public sector organisation of our nation and even though it has been criticized left and right by the people in the past and present also, but still the developments that have been taking place in this field is really pleasing and high-paced.

But the thing is due to increasing and lavishing lifestyles of a number of people, railways are always looked upon as some sort of secondary mode of transportation with airways shooting up in popularity battle.
But stll, a vast majority of our population travels in trains and therefore the development of this structure and well being of those passengers is of utmost importance to our nation.

Through this blog post, i wanted to share my views on it and also want to popularise the advancements of this field to all of you so that all this doesn't go unappreciated and overlooked.
And at the same time , Indian Railways should also keep on improving so that it can really blur the line of comfort between airways and railways.

So, think about it friends and yeahh....for sure....

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“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn”

                                                                             ----John Wesley

Passion, to be very particular is one thing that no one can teach us. It’s something that comes from inside and every individual in this world, from his/her core is passionate about one thing or the other.

Be it the passion to sing, passion of learning, passion of acting, passion of advent, etc. every one for sure inculcates a passion for something in his/her life.

And if anyone says he’s not passionate about anything then, that’s the biggest liar you’re ever gonna see on the face of the Earth.

Speaking about passion, if there was a passion that I would’ve loved to inculcate in myself then it would be ---- passion of writing and to be more particular----- passion of blogging.

So, from a distant point of view, many feel that blogging is one of the ultimate and freakin’ cool thing to do, several others may feel that it’s one of the most trending hotspot which can fill-up their wallet. ( By the way, It’s in the list of ---‘ top 10 ways to make money’  if you search about the topic on the net). Thus, it seems very appealing to a huge strata of youth and my case was no different.

Inspired by that, I started writing my own stuffs over here and at www.techaholistic.wordpress.com (that’s my tech-blog).

But sooner than later I myself realized the reason behind, a painful stat from blogging point of view:

A very popular survey depicts, “more than 90% of new blogs all over the world don’t even survive 6 complete months”.

In the midst of fancy appeal of blogging, one often tend to underestimate or don’t think at all about the complications and gruel that comes absolutely free with blogging.

So, the reason why you’re reading the fifth post of this blog is to understand how difficult survival is for a new blog in this world.

Through this post I want all of you to live a blogger's life for a few minutes.

All I need is just your 5 valuable minutes to bear with me and give it a read.

India is still a very orthodoxial and mainstream nation where to be very honest blogging is still ages away from being counted as one of the more primary occupation of the strata unlike in countries like – U.S.A., Germany and a majority of  Latin America.

Now many of you Indy bloggers may disagree with me but trust me that’s the damn truth.

No matter how great your content is, at the end of the day it’s all about views when it comes to blogging, obviously you need people to read what you’ve written, you need them to understand your thoughts and finally you need them to appreciate or reject (but not ignore) your work.

That’s where the situation heats up, you need to popularise your blog, you need to sell yourself so that people can turn up in numbers to view your work.

So, you got your work cut out now – you’ve started a blog- what you need to do next is now to post quality content (better than mine) at least once or twice every week and then to work your heart out trying to polarize the audience and to read what you’ve written.

There are a lot of ways to popularise your stuff online, speaking about that one thing that I realised and want you to know is that--- Internet marketing is perhaps the most underestimated and unexplored area ever as it has got more potential than any real life marketing structure you can ever think of.

As many ways as there are to fame-up your blog, this is perhaps the most demanding part of the blog set-up. You need to share it here and there and it demands you to burn your ass out.

So, now you would feel that I’ve written quality content and also worked hard trying to make that popular- so, that,  perhaps, will be enough to get people to read my stuff.

But the sad truth is --- the perhaps word in the above line will never ever get abolished from the statement. No matter how much you work hard, your success as a blogger depends entirely on outside force, the externals, the audience who’re gonna read your posts.

That’s what’s the reason behind the gruelling and onerous nature of blogging.

And in a mainstream nation like ours, this blogging becomes an even more tough ask.

Now, you can imagine how much risk it involves as survival of a blog completely depends on the readers (the audience) and not on the blogger.

You may post a very intellectual and beautiful post and could still end up at 2-3 views a day or you may not do it all, and could still rise the counter up to as high as 100-200 views per day.

Now, I may not be a very experienced bloggers as some of you out there, but one thing that I sure can tell you is that – blogging as a whole is very topsy-turvy, because at the end of the day it’s not about the blogger, who takes immense pain in writing and doing all the requisites, but it’s the readers, whose five valuable minutes run a blog.

The above line is what makes blogging different from several other fields and this is the speciality of it, the above mentioned (and self-realised) fact is what thrills a blogger out.

So, as it’s all about you guys, I humbly urge you guys to devote your few valuable minutes in reading a quality stuff and thus help the individuals, known as blogger, in keep nourishing and nurturing his passion for blogging as it’s all about your five minutes.

So, the next time you come across a blog feed in facebook, reddit or any other social site, do keep in mind the passion involved in the making of that post before scrolling down.

Hope you were connected throughout and yes......

“Thanks For Your Valuable Time”