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Increasing non-fare revenue for Indian Railways

Start Date :

Jun 14, 2016

Last Date :

Jan 01, 2017

00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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Although Indian Railways enjoy the highest captive eyeballs in a railway system internationally, it earns less than 5% of its revenues through non-tariff sources. Many of the world ...

Although Indian Railways enjoy the highest captive eyeballs in a railway system internationally, it earns less than 5% of its revenues through non-tariff sources. Many of the world railway systems generate 10% to 20% of their revenues from non-tariff sources.

IR typically has focused on increasing revenues through tariff hikes. It wants to change this and challenge the conventional thinking by exploiting new sources of revenue so that every asset, tangible or non-tangible, gets optimally monetized

We invite ideas from citizens on increasing non fare revenue for Indian Railways.

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shashi shekhar_4 9 years 8 months ago

1. We can have additional coaches as restaurants instead of traditional pantry offering berth delivery or hav it here concepts. 2. Long distance rajdhani trains can have kids play areas on chargable basis. 3. Trains can be fitted with solar panels reducing energy expenses. 4. Start a citizen railway development fund offering railway incentives and assured returns like LIC. Can also include some equity exposure. 5. Station maintenance charges can be levied on commuters.

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DR P P PAUL 9 years 8 months ago

Sir, My suggestions are: [a] Railway is having huge-quantities of material decaying in the Railway styations and around rail-tracks..they are abandoned buildings, old and new speepers, rails, and other materials - just rotting there for years. If these huge quanmtity of junk-material could be auctioned and sold in/or around-where they are,Railway can earn million croes.. [b]Railway is having lot of landed property in the key locations in major / minors cities/villages.These could be used/rented

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ramesh nadar 9 years 8 months ago

SIR USE CHAIR CARS FOR GENERAL UN RESERVED COMPERTMETNS,, WHICH ENSURES EACH ONE HAS GOT AN SEAT... even double Decker coaches ... which gives more seats as 150 + for single coach and more trains has 4 such coaches ,, use chair cars double Decker coaches which can carry of more then 600 + passangers in general coach and also you can earn good profits from it....and the passangers too will be ensured that they will get good comfort travel in all trains....

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Sharan_11 9 years 8 months ago

Hi, I think railway can do VSM[Value stream mapping]of current train running because when i travel from bidar to bangalore train running time is around 60%,40% time get wasted in waiting.if they improve in that there will be two advantages. 1.Lead time of destination reduction - public happy 2.they can add few more trains [goods,public train ] which generate revenue.

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RAJ KUMAR 9 years 8 months ago

We should postpone idea of fast trains for a few years. Meanwhile the money should be used to make the railway secure as Delhi metro systems. The cost on railway is the compensation given after accidents has a large impact. The awareness program can be run for this sake. lot of volunteers can help in this. i can also provide a list of participants.

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Prakash Kumar Shrivastava 9 years 8 months ago

Still railway is not friendly for the common people regarding goods/luggage carrying facility. Provide office in each town for the booking of goods along with online facility. Make it Door-to-Door facility with insurance charges. Give this facility like any other courier services. This will drastically change the revenue earnings of railway.

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Mitesh Shroff 9 years 8 months ago

INCREASE T.C.: I was in Europe & observe as soon as you start your travel in train, ticket checker comes and check your ticket. i.e. there is no chance to travel without ticket. If somebody founds without ticket his/her ID proof details are been taken, he will get the ticket in train and penalty voucher too, he/she have to pay the penalty at railway station within a week. It stops the corruption from TC. With ID details railway will have all record of the person & how many times he caught.

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Santosh Pujari 9 years 8 months ago

It's because Railways has lost focus on it's main business that is Train transport. Railway is ready to invest in all other nonsense things around it but not in main source of income. Todays railways are in bad conditions dirtier than garbage dump-yard, the station are kind of toilets, not people friendly, corrupt officers, no frequent trains between major cities in a state, slow trains and long routes, if a travel bus takes around 10 hrs to reach it's destination trains take 15hrs. Improve it.

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ramesh nadar 9 years 8 months ago

SIR GIVE IMPORTANCE TO THE OLD PROJECT AND MAKE IT FAST ,, WE ARE GOING A HEAD OF 21 CENTURE BUT OUR RAILWAY PROJECT TAKES NUMBER OF YEARS TO COMPLETE...SIR IF NEEDED USE THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY TO UPGRADE OUR RAILWAY SYSTEMS....MAKE IT FOUR EAST , WEST , NORTH AND SOUTH REGION ... WHICH CUTS THE COST....SIR INTRODUCE CHAIR CAR IN MORNING TRAINS ,,, WHICH RUNS BETWEEN 700 KMS ... EVEN DOUBLE DECKER COACHES FOR MORNING TRAINS...WHICH CAN CARRY 150 + PASSANGER IN DAY FOR SINGLE COACH...

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Dr Manish Kumar Goyal 9 years 8 months ago

In the trains having more than 4 hours run, reduce one toilet and convert in to small shop and provide the same on rent to individuals for selling different types of snacks, cold drinks etc. this will not only generate revenue for Railway but also generate employment for number of peoples

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