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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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Raman Parameswaran 9 years 8 months ago

1.Ads should be procured outside the bogies for all the trains 2.Engine Front also should have a Brand for revenue 3.Rail Neer should have a monopoly in all stations and inside trains.The volume of passengers and the profit it will contribute 4.Behind and in front side of etickets and physical tickets - one brand to be advertised 5.10 stalls to be given to Vendors aother than food. Like Patanjali etc 6.Free passes to the emloyess should be issued only when paid passengers r not there.

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Vinay Tiwary 9 years 8 months ago

Increase revenues through ads- * Railway coaches can be facilitated with LCD's to show ads on state wise. Also, it can additionally help people to know which station is about to reach. * Coaches can be equipped with WiFi. Users can buy vouchers to use the WiFi service. * Railway stations can have high class lounges like airports. * Many TTEs take bribe and allow passengers with invalid tickets. TTEs should have digital machines to charge any passenger.

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MANEESH AGRAWAL 9 years 8 months ago

1. Railways should look to rent out property to Big Bazar/ Shoppers stop/Westside/Pantaloons/Inox/PVR etc for developing malls, Cinema halls in its officers colony premises. Railway officers families are often deprived of recreation facilities of high standard as Rly jobs means high level of travelling or even postings in odd locations leaving their families in some urban city. These malls/cinema multiplexes will have to provide some discounts to Rly employees against their family photo ids.

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Deepak Shetty 9 years 8 months ago

#NonFareRevenue For all passengers offer free wifi for 30 mins per mobile number and then offer the same on a nominal chargeable basis.This can be a big revenue generator. #NonFareRevenue If we can have LCD screens for each seat, we can show in-transport entertainment interspersed with advertisements which can be another big revenue generator as this is a captive audience. All Railway Stns, on the non Platform side have panel ads at the eye level for travellers for promotional advertisement.

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Shahzor Khan 9 years 8 months ago

2- Moving some services to private players, a. Food vendors at station, train 3- Judicious use of real estate near the stations The railway land near the stations can be used better by leasing out carparking, hotel/restraunts etc. 4- Reducing Maintenance cost Diesel engines are costlier to maintain than Electric, Similar comparisons can be seen in reducing cost/km/person across trains, and looking at the numbers to take decisions.

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Shahzor Khan 9 years 8 months ago

1- Advertisement avenues: Indian railways have old infrastructure, and a huge chance of improvement. The advertisements in internet allows reducing the cost of usage to nearly nill. We should be using Advertisement to the fullest. Few samples may be: a. During Journey: Train Doors, small portion of floors, Food packing, Food tray paper, etc. b. On Station: Waiting Rooms, Platforms, Outside station barricades etc.

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Shahzor Khan 9 years 8 months ago

Related Studies: Analysis of cost of railways in EU nations http://orr.gov.uk/publications/reports/costs-and-revenues-of-franchised-passenger-train-operators-in-the-uk

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Shanker Lal Mandowara 9 years 8 months ago

Indian Railways Sir, I am mention in attachment some points for increasing revenue or reducing losses which transpired in my mind. I being general public and general user of railway system, my points may be very Raw and may be out of ignorance. Kindly excuse me for same.

mygov_148248203720103781.pdf

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Devraj Valiramani 9 years 8 months ago

Please first of all make ID compulsory at the time of reservation to remove the corruption,and if seat is not there waiting list make rule if not going cancel before 7 days from the journey date itis refundable after that no refund then it will help who really waant to travel and agent system must remove and computor change name and other important information lock not changeble once ticket printed.

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Harsimran Singh 9 years 8 months ago

Hi, I have below ideas :- 1) Railways can start advertising on coaches. We can wrap the entire coach for the specific brand. Pricing may vary from Train to Train. Like Shatabdi/Rajdhani will have more cost as compared to other Express trains. Also, price for this advertising would be from one coach to complete rail depending upon the requirement. 2) Allow good quality food vendors to sell their foods in all trains. Railways can charge some fixed amount as a fees from those vendors.

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