Why Indian Railways Is Best!?

        Did you know why Indian Railways are awesome than we think? Actually our railways are so amazing. Here are some points that proves why it is best.

• The full track length of Indian Railways can encircle the equator one and a half times. If you add up all the distance covered by every single train in just one day you can go to the moon 3.5 times.

• Indian Railways employs more than 1.9 Million employees. That’s more than Indian Armed Forces. Even in a global scale, Indian Railway is 8th largest employer in the world Just behind Walmart and McDonald’s.

• There are too many people over here and to serve them there are too many railway lines. The slowest train of India is Nilagiri Passenger moves at the speed of 10km/hr. While the fastest is Vande Bharat Express moves at the speed of 130 km/hr. On one hand we have budget trains like Jan Shatabdhi, which are so affordable no other train in the world can beat that. And on the other we have uber luxury Maharaja Express. The most expensive tickets cost 24000 USD!!!

• Indian Railway is the lifeline of our transport system. It spends Rs. 111/- for every Rs. 100/- earned currently. That means it is operating at 11% loss.

• People credit the British for starting the Railways in India. What they don’t know Is that the British also plundered the railways. The British needed steel for World War and the first place they looked were the railway tracks. Railway tracks all over the countries was not enough. Factories destructed to make raw materials for Britains requirements having our railways without repair and in disarrays.

Konkan Railways: It is most ambitious project undertaken by Indian Railways. Even the British had thought of constructing this but this was so challenging that they dropped the idea.

              For an organization which is more than 150 yrs old that’s really good way of keeping up with modern times.

              But what makes me really sad is this! Tejas Express launched in 24/05/2017 with world class LED screen for each seat, Headphones and entertainment devices….. And in one day people stole headphones, tore seats, broke the windows and so on. Please don’t do that. Indian Railways is for Us and it is Ours.

             It is a wonder that it still operates and innovated! I feel happy when I see how they are beautifying stations. I feel happy that Indian Railways will not use single use plastic from 2nd October 2019. I feel happy how they are managed to keep Indian Railways rocking all these years..