@MyselfLiberal @trainwalebhaiya Well sad for you. Thanks to this video getting viral. Railways will run a special train for ‘freeloaders’ from tomorrow. 03611/12.
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@harshitirl
Railways/Cricket enthusiast | DTU/DCE
Katılım Eylül 2022
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I don’t know where you got the 75% number from, but no I am not fine with it. I’d prefer that ZERO services are run for ticket-free travel. But people are bitching about free-loaders being subject to inconvenience of crowded trains so I see option #1 as lesser evil than #2. Running 1 train that gives a loss of 1 lakh is more “competent” than running 10 trains that cause a loss of 10 lakhs.
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I remember talking to one railway official from same area, he mentioned one day when the Railways conducted a strict ticket-checking drive on this route, the crowd was no where to be seen :)
This is the Patna-Gaya route. Two trains see massive crowds: one in the morning towards Patna and another in the evening towards Gaya, mostly for short distances to/from Patna.
The majority of people here travel without tickets. You want services, but can’t pay even ₹10 for a ticket, and then blame the Railways for not running enough trains and for overcrowding.
🚨Indian Gems@IndianGems_
Look at this overcrowded train near Patna. It was the same in 2014, and it's still the same in 2026. What exactly has changed in the last 12 years?
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@MyselfLiberal @trainwalebhaiya You’re dead against option 1, but fine with taxpayers silently eating the cost of 75% not paying? ‘General Class is free’ isn’t policy but glorification of incompetence. Ever wondered why mumbai locals are vigilant but not bihar? Because someone doesn’t want to lose votes.
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Ticketless travel problem is a scale problem. A solution that works cheaply for 100 people will not work for 100000 people. An efficient solution for 100000 people needs an exponentially bigger investment (eg: maybe automated turnstiles like at metro stations). Railways has made the decision that it costs it LESS not to verify tickets than to lose revenue through ticketless travel. Most of most trains is reserved-class ticketing anyway. General Class, unofficially, is free.
So the choice for Railways on this Gaya route really is about how to structure an undeclared Pradhan Mantri Bina-Ticket-Railgaadi-Yatra Yojana:
1. Run more services so that ticketless travellers can travel in style.
2. Run one service and cut losses.
As a taxpayer, I am dead against #1.
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@trainwalebhaiya From ‘people need to change’ to ‘I support strict enforcement’ in a reply & ‘it’s a citizen failure that we need enforcement’ is the most brain-dead take here. Every law ever made exists because people DON’T self-regulate. Do you also think seatbelt laws are a ‘citizen failure’?
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It's just not possible to do it everyday is what I'm saying, multiple departures a day from Patna itself, then not to mention all the small halt stations between Patna Gaya, I'm in fully support of strict enforcement but it will be failure of us as a citizen that we need strict enforcement even to buy tickets, people should understand their responsibility as well along with Railways
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@trainwalebhaiya Your own analogy proves the pt. if ticketless travel is a crime, Railways is the police that chose not to enforce for 12 years. You even admitted strict ticket-checking made crowds vanish. So the tool exists, they just don’t use it. It’s not mentality, it’s incompetence.
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@harshitirl It’s like saying, We’ll commit a crime, it’s the police’s duty to stop us.
I agree that the Railways is responsible for mismanagement here, but people are equally responsible. Railways can’t run extra trains for freeloaders, people also need to change their mentality.
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@72h00rsewa @trainwalebhaiya Dehatis like me? Im pretty sure my monthly tax is more than what you earn a month and i’ll be a better citizen than you’d ever be. Go back to eating gobar please.
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@harshitirl @trainwalebhaiya Yeah because we have dehatis like you who'd rather resort to destroying public property when asked to deboard for ticketless travel.
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@Maha7Arindam @trainwalebhaiya Passengers who fulfill their duty of paying a ticket travel like rats on trains because of railways failure to do their duty of checking tickets?
You’re justifying railways incompetence, im not justifying anything. Get the ticketless passengers and make an example out of them.
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@harshitirl @trainwalebhaiya This statement about recovery has been there since 2016. Way before Vande Bharat, Amrit Bharat and Tejas were introduced. Don't justify not buying tickets as an excuse for not enforcing ticket checking. It's ultimately Passenger's duty to get a ticket first before travelling.
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@bishwesh0604 @trainwalebhaiya So railways can’t even curb hooliganism now? Sad state of affairs.
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@harshitirl @trainwalebhaiya By the way last time railways tried to be harsh 3 people died in ensuing violence
1 rpf personal had his nails ripped off
Police had to resort to firing
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@Maha7Arindam @trainwalebhaiya How’s this related? If 57% recovery can run Amrit Bharats, Tejas, Rajdhani, Vande bharat for top 5% and spend crores for inaugurations then it should be enough to run another pair of train on an overcrowded section.
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@Maha7Arindam @trainwalebhaiya Whose responsibility is it to ensure tickets are checked and ticketless passengers don’t travel? US government’s?
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@harshitirl @trainwalebhaiya Blaming railways is very easy. How about getting a ticket first? Not a hard job for a regular commuter.
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@72h00rsewa @trainwalebhaiya Sorry bhai, galti hogyi modi ki incompetency mention krdi. Logo ki hi glti hai, my bad.
TTEs should stay at home with their salary because if they check tickets then hindu samrat modi ji will become dictator and anti poor.
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@harshitirl @trainwalebhaiya If they start hounding ticketless pax out, y'all will be the first to cry "mudi dictator, mudi anti poor"
So spare us the BS
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Cry for my country.
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New evidence suggests India misestimated annual economic growth rate during the past two decades.
Growth in boom years 2005-2011 may have been underestimated by ~1–1.5 percentage points, & growth from 2012-2023 overestimated by ~1.5-2 percentage points.
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In 2014, @INCIndia was crying about focusing on eliminating unmanned level crossings rather than building a bullet train.
Imagine this: you rule the country for nearly 70 years, and then ask a newly elected government to focus on a basic safety issue like unmanned level crossings instead of ambitious projects like a bullet train.
Indian Railways had around 9,000 unmanned level crossings in 2014. Today, the number stands at zero on the broad-gauge network.
So in short, Modi accomplished something in a few years that couldn’t be achieved in decades, and still has enough resources to build bullet train.
That’s what happens when funds are used for development instead of scams.
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WHITE ELEPHANT MODI | As we exposed nearly two years ago, Modi’s vanity project, the Mumbai–Ahmedabad Bullet Train, has seen its cost escalate from the original ₹1.1 lakh crore to ₹1.98 lakh crore. This is when the project is half complete. The final cost could be more than 2.5 lakh Cr. The additional ₹90,000 crore burden will now be borne by Indian Railways, which is already struggling for funds. The Japanese agency JICA is not going to fund this escalation. The main attraction of JICA funding was the ultra-low 0.25% interest rate. But this extra ₹90,000 crore will now be raised as debt by the Government of India at 7–8% interest. It will take more than a century to recover the cost. The original projected ticket price between Mumbai and Ahmedabad was around ₹3,000. With costs nearly doubling while the project is only half complete, ticket prices could well touch ₹6,000–₹7,000. How many of you would actually pay that much for this ride? Bhakts, please answer and go.
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The world has entered a volatile phase. Stormy seas lie ahead.
India’s oil supplies are under threat, with more than 40% of our imports transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The situation is even worse for LPG and LNG.
The conflict has reached our backyard, with an Iranian warship sunk in the Indian Ocean. Yet the Prime Minister has said nothing.
At a moment like this, we need a steady hand at the wheel.
Instead, India has a compromised PM who has surrendered our strategic autonomy.
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@trainwalebhaiya You’ll anyway vote for BJP for the rest of your life.
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw ji has stated that India will build all seven proposed high-speed rail corridors within the next 10 years. By 2036, India is expected to have more than 4,000 km of high-speed rail, making it the second-largest HSR network in the world after China.
Sir @AshwiniVaishnaw, if you make this happen, I will make sure to vote BJP for the rest of my life and i sincerely hope you turn this vision into reality.
Ministry of Railways@RailMinIndia
Hon’ble PM approved 7 new high-speed passenger corridors, spanning 4000 km with an investment of about ₹ 16 lakh crore: Hon’ble MR Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw
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