Proof of the pudding is in eating. Lalu can and should now think of making the railways the cleanest railway service in the world! I am sure he can if he minds it.

PSA

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The other day I saw a program on TV where the stand up comedian was conducting a quiz program. One of the question, largest lavatory in the world and the answer was Indian Railway, according to him it span across India and any one can use it freely. What a pity IR which claim it has 90k Crores in its profit kit.

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Doesnt PAC have a website? Can somebody point me to it?

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And we are expecting this corporation to run bullet trains?

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@IDS,

This is the PAC website. The report doesn't seem to be there, though.

Shocking to read about the poor standards of cleanliness on the railways. Fortunately for us, Bangalore City and Yesvantpur appear to be reasonably clean. The railways must address the problem on a war footing.

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Manish your link is a parliamentary committee on public accounts. Not Public Affiars Committee.

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All,

I am not sure if this helps

http://www.cag.gov.in/html/reports/railways/2007_6_peraud/chap_2.pdf

http://www.cag.gov.in/html/reports/railways/2007_6_peraud/contents.htm

Also in the last year budget railway minister had discussed this issue, i hope its started for implementation..

http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=35590


Regards Sri

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Changing Roles of Stations is a good read

So is this on Intermodal railway station design

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Thanks for the links srikanth...

within the station premises the responsibility of cleaning the walls up to six feet (three metres in some cases) rested with the Medical/Commercial department whereas above six feet (three metres in some cases) the Engineering department was responsible. Similarly, for the foot over bridges on the platform, while the responsibility of cleaning the steps rested with Medical/Commercial department, cleaning the ceilings of the foot over bridges was the responsibility of the Engineering department. Cleaning of electric fittings and fans was the responsibility of Electrical department while the Signal and Telecommunication department was responsible for clocks and speakers.

This resulted in areas being left  unattended to due to lack of coordination

You bet it did. This is the most complex cleaning structure I have seen. Why dont they just outsource cleanliness to Veolia or some such organization?

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This may have been an old, outdated procedure that is still being followed for the convenience it offers for all railway depts to shirk their responsibilities, passenger conveniences be damned !!

Wonder when they will learn to be sensitive to the needs of the public - the public is also expected to co-operate better than they do today as it is so common to see people throwing refuse anywhere & everywhere, the moment it is a governemnet-public facility.

The KSRTC bus-stand (SBC) is a complete mess now with garbage lying everywhere & buses crowded & unable to depart smoothly.

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