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Increasing non-fare revenue for Indian Railways

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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Devdutt Shenoi
Devdutt Shenoi 9 years 8 months ago
1. Allow advertisements on more trains, especially high-end ones 2. Allow advertisements on railway track embankments 3. Call on all chains (e.g Mc Donalds and KFC) to set-up shop in all major and semi-major stations 4. Allow advertisements inside train schedule(i.e. the booklet), and make it smaller as well as a bit more expensive(don't subsidize it) 5. Start shopping complexes on railway station premises at transit stations(It is my experience of missing a train as I had to buy supplies)
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Kunal Bhargava
Kunal Bhargava 9 years 8 months ago
Hydrogen Powered Trains are being introduced in Europe to cover relatively small distances, these trains can be used in Inter City Transport , but the BIGGEST HICCUP IS people overcrowding them and sitting on top and tampering with Hydrogen Powered Cells. ALSTOM is the company which is manufacturing these trains. It would be a good way to accumulate CARBON CREDITS.
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Kamalesh Maurya
Kamalesh Maurya 9 years 8 months ago
Railway should make goods transport easy and transparent and to be promoted. Railway should standardize station design, Every year new design comes and work is on always.
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Nitheesh Kumara
Nitheesh Kumara 9 years 8 months ago
my point of view at first we have to minimize the subsidies in railway,for example if a senior citizen are getting off in ticket fare but i recognized that some pensioner also using this facility,but reality is they received pension from central or state govt from more than Rs 30000/-in a month then why you are giving subsidies to these people and also another simple logic is why you are giving subsidy in ticket fare to retired railway employees they received pension right..... please stop this.
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Ravinder Nara
Ravinder Nara 9 years 8 months ago
India's biggest problem is energy.We can use the free space of Railway for producing energy by implanting solar panel & Wind mill & can produce 50% electricity of need. Advertisement is also a good source of income.
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sachin gupta
sachin gupta 9 years 8 months ago
Dear sir, During travel, 1)mobile device provided to each ticket examiner Like TTE for check Passenger Identity.why i am telling ,lots of Ticket agent make fake Adhaar card thru DTP.during summer vacation and diwali vacation. 2)advertsements on the back of all types of tickets, including sponsored SMS. 3) * Many TTEs take bribe and allow passengers with invalid tickets. TTEs should have digital machines to charge any passenger with thier name and mobile no.OTP,
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Shashank Pogu
Shashank Pogu 9 years 8 months ago
All short distance Trains which are slow-moving should be first updated to high speed trains. As they carry more passengers it will reduce the journey time. Also to handle the rush more services need to be launched in busy routes
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