Indian Railways Invite Suggestions from the Public for Forthcoming Railway Budget

Indian Railways Invite Suggestions from the Public for Forthcoming Railway Budget

Indian Railways Invite Suggestions from the Public for Forthcoming Railway Budget

Railway Ministry Receives Collective Inputs on Various Railway Subjects from Online Community

The Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has been emphasizing on the need to make Indian Railways citizen oriented, so that citizens can provide inputs on various aspects on railways to improve services in railways. It is also in line with the approach of Hon’ble Prime Minister on the matter of participative governance.

The Ministry of Railways has invited suggestions from the public on various subjects for the forthcoming railway budget 2015-16. The citizens can login on the website of Ministry of Railways with the URL www.indianrailways.gov.in and submit suggestions online on varied railway subjects which include computerization, electrical, electrification of lines, finance, foot over bridges, freight, Infrastructure, innovative ideas and railway lines, Road Over/Under Bridges, crime prevention, safe running of trains/Disaster Management, tourism related services, new trains, extension of trains, augmentation of trains, frequency of trains, pantry cars & catering etc.etc. Suggestions for the forthcoming budget can be submitted upto 16th January, 2015.

In addition, Citizens can also give their complaints, general suggestions and feedback online on the same website of the Ministry of Railways round the year which can be tracked also online.

The Indian Railways is already connecting with the people through its social media platforms namely Twitter, Facebook and Youtube with the common URL @RailMinIndia.

In a similar move, a community social media platform called ‘LocalCircles’ with the URL ‘http://www.localcircles.com’ has voluntarily offered to be a partner with Indian Railways to provide collective citizen inputs on various aspects pertaining to railways. The local circle “Make Railways Better” has been generating number of inputs based on the feedback from their large 70,000+ strong online citizen community on various subjects like budget, cleanliness, safety, reservation systems, productivity, food etc.

‘Make Railways Better’ citizen community has so far submitted collective citizen inputs on safety, cleanliness, improving railway reservation system, maximizing revenue, improving catering, improving productivity to Railway Ministry. LocalCircles has also offered to work with Railways to enable citizen’s ratings for trains, stations and services etc.

Collective inputs from the citizens are being seen and examined by the Railway administration and incorporated into various initiatives as found fit and feasible.

Indian Railways welcomes such initiatives from the civil society and it proposes to engage citizens to participate in its other key objectives also like cleanliness, improving civic sense and together making Indian Railways the best rail network in the world.

Such initiatives will help Railways come closer to citizens and better understand challenges that the citizens experience and ensure that most important areas from a citizen perspective find place in Railways’ priorities.

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5 thoughts on “Indian Railways Invite Suggestions from the Public for Forthcoming Railway Budget”

  1. Respected Railway Minister,please consider following requests of Railway employees regarding previlage passes.the passes are valid for spouse and children,but not valid to father and mother.son/daughter is working in Railway but can”t have pass to travel in train along with them.on some super fast trains passes are not allowed to travel by railway employees.expand passes facility to all trains such as tourist trains, special trains,palace on wheels and more.at least one time in a year this may increase tourism. LTC facility in a Central/Govt,PSU,State Govt is leave with travel but in railways there is no confirmation of leave sanctioning by in charges or HOD for journey by passes. at last minute if in-charge is not sanctioned the leave employee has to cancel the journey with spouse and children.so consider the leave for pass reservation.there is no preference for us in reservation by our passes of employee of mother organisation.We are expecting these small requests to be considered in budget. thanking you sir.

  2. In stations non packed food and packed food is selling by vendors to passengers.generally passengers going for packed since it maybe hygienic.actually the vendors are taking the advantage of passengers in running trains they are selling poor,unhygienic food to passengers.ban the unpacked food at stations.JAN aahar food packs are bad in smell,poor quality products,storaged not fresh items are selling. MRP rates not selling by vendors. there are so my officers and employees working on Railway stations.depute to supervise to check maintain quality of food items on platforms.complaints lodging and reporting system to be easy for a all passengers.

  3. Sir indian railways in visakhapatnam so many trains going and coming but even one train not cleaning properly seats damaged, windows not woring properly,emergency time very difficult to come out.and all trains waiting minimum 100 to 200 every time but not body is not taking any step since today.

  4. SKBHATTACHARYA

    Perfectly hygienically packed good quality hot Meals & breakfast at reasonable cost is most important both in running trains and Rly Stations.Packed cleaned and pure water bottles too is the need of the hour.
    SKBhattacharya.

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