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Written By Gautamrao - 22 August, 2008

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Dear All,

This is to inform you that the Indian Railways has set up a Multi-departmental Innovation Promotion Group as per the budget announcement of the Railway Minister and has sought innovative suggestions from the general public, educational institutions, citizens, and the industry which may help in:

  1. Improvement in system efficiency and productivity of resources.
  2. Introduction of modern systems and technologies.
  3. Achieving better customer satisfaction through value addition to customer services.
  4. Improvement in safety, reliability and reduction in maintenance costs.
  5. Enhancement of throughput capacity of the existing systems.

Address for communication:

Director,
Efficiency & Research / ME and Member Secretary,
IPG, Ministry of Railways,
Room No. 509, Rail Bhawan,
Raisina Road, New Delhi - 110001.
E-Mail - ipg@rb.railnet.gov.in

I feel that Praja members should send in their suggestions on the five issues that have been mentioned above. Whether it gets accepted or not is another matter. We should try. Why don't we start off in this thread itself? Please write your suggestions here.

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new train

vijay kumar d garhwal - 20 August, 2011 - 13:47

1 If possible mumbai jaipur superfast extended to hissar

2 pls make superfast  firozpur janta exp(19023/19024) instead of exp.

Need Information About CRS Proposals in Master Plan 2015

Gautamrao - 8 September, 2008 - 05:41

Dear Silk Board and others,

I wasn't aware of the CRS concept or proposal. I came across something similar in the CTTP which was done by RITES Ltd.

Can somebody clarify this? Where can get details about CRS and whether it is a part of the CTTP designed by RITES?

Right here Gautam

silkboard - 8 September, 2008 - 06:01

We had posted a lot of stuff from CTTP here on Praja.

See http://praja.in/7-5-commuter-rail-system

And then, see http://praja.in/tags/CRS for all posts flagged CRS, there may be more info in them. You may have to do some filtering as sometimes members may have flagged a post CRS without real relevance.

good to know that

murali772 - 22 August, 2008 - 12:48

Thanks Gautam. Just yesterday I had made a posting stating that Railways could afford to be a little more customer oriented, and the very next day, this happens - talk of coincidences. For whatever, it's worth, I am taking this seriously, and sending out my gyaan - will post it here also.

I expect our Mangalore friends are joining in too.

Muralidhar Rao

Contd...

narayan82 - 31 August, 2008 - 15:53

Mr Gautam, your points are very Valid. My biggest issue with IR is thier apathy and lack of pro activeness. There is such a large oppurtunity here staring at them to make a brilliant working industry (railways.) Today's paper for e.g had an article which mentioned railway fares to mysore at Rs.22 compared to Rs.79 of KSRTC Sarige.If they were to improve the service and the even hike the fare a bit, who is there to compete? Similar situation between BLR and MAS(Chennai)- Shatabdi Ticket Rs.500 - which airline is going to compete with the 5 hour journey? With some futuristic thinking, IR should by now have doubled the track to Chennai/Mysore and also upgraded the speed of it. Trains should travel at 180-200 kmph. We should have had hourly trains to chennai by now. W.r.t City station - its a joke! I mean they have so much money (through PPP and advertising) to make this a truly world class station. I would imagine the entire station to be elevated (on floor 1) and Ground floor would where you "check-in" and travel to your respective platform. I have seen such working stations at Cologne (germany) and Brussels (Belgium.) I dont see why we cannot build a station like that here. Considering IR is one of the most profitable rail companys in the world! I would like IR to work alongside air travel and bus travel. They need not compete but could co-operate. As mentioned earlier, IR could have extended a railway line to BIAL and even formed a station at BIAL. Maybe the Shatabdis from Chennai,Mysore and even Hubli stopped at BIAL. Thus, creating a link between Rail and Air which could together provide a simple short journey. But now Air and Train are competing for a journey like Chennai which can be dominated by rail. Lastly, I really look forward to IR spreaidng out its staions in Bangalore and openening Byappanhalli soon. This would reduce the load on Central Station and Cantt. Hence making them slightly more bearable.

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