Is Indian Railways on Tracks?
Indian railways is going to post a profit of 60,000 crore Rupees in the present financial year. Anybody and everybody will feel elated with wonderment because this is happening possibly for the first time in the history of railways after independence. Railways are leviathan and perhaps the largest employer, next only to security forces, in the country. Till recently it was considered to be an honour to be employed with Railways. Despite reporting such huge profits the Railways are the classic example of dirt, filth and squalor all around. Platforms are overcrowded and dirty. Substandard and stale eatables are sold with gay abandon, nobody is their control the violators of law. Obviously it is done in complicity with the authorities, who are responsible to maintain the order and upkeep of the railway stations. However, owing to many factors, the railways, despite huge potentialities, never reported even ‘no profit, no loss’ situation. Everybody had assumed that it was impossible to get
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