Some highlights of Railway budget 2008

Lalu Prasad Yadav is ready to revamp the Indian railways right from this rail budget (Indian Rail Budget 2008). What are his plans?

 

These are the sops that he offered to the public:

 

1: New round of cuts in passenger fare cuts.

2: Investment of nearly Rs. 2500 billion to modernise and expand the existing network of Railways. (Out of this Rs. 1000 billion will be raised from private sector. Where is the Left parties, what are they doing?)

3: New “discharge-free-green-toilets” will be introduced in around 36000 coaches.

4: Will fill nearly 7000 vacant jobs in Railway Police.

The points mentioned above are just an extract from the other sops he has announced.

 

Lalu Prasad Yadav is rocking as the Railway minister. But is he really interested in continuing the job if he gets another tenure as a Railway minister? It is unlikely, says Lalu himself in an interview with CNN-iBN channel on the day he made the railway budget.

 

The Indian railways is the largest employer in the world so far employing more than a million people. With such a background in place it is not possible to err out in the budget. But till Lalu Prasad Yadav gets to the picture, nobody knew how they could bring Railways to profit earning front. That is where the guts and simplicity of his thinking came to rescue.

 

He has been regarded as one of the greatest performers in the Manmohan Singh cabinet. It has even increased the respect level of Lalu Prasad Yadav himself. Till that place, we did only know of him as Bihar’s only leader.

 

He is the only minister to have shown that a profit can be attained only if you understand the Railways network and how you can optimize it.

 

But everyone who travels by train, are they satisfied? No. Some complaints about the inefficient running of the railways, some others complain about the dirty way by which the compartments, food are being served in the railways. The complaints have no end just like the 63000 km long railway network of India.

 

Lalu Prasad Yadav has something to say about this too. He says “Nobody can clean and maintain the vast railways unless until the passengers make a habit of cleanliness. You eat banana and throw the skin either inside the train or outside, carelessly.”

 

He has a point this time. Please make a good habit of maintaining cleanliness everywhere you go, not only in our households.

 

INDIA IS TOO OUR HOUSE, WE HAVE TO LIVE IN THIS PLACE, REMEMBER THIS BEFORE THROWING ANY WASTAGE WAYSIDE.