Exactly! just look at the mess at Capital region (NCR) it has^^^^
I am sorry gentlemen, but the diagnosis of the overcrowding of trains and ticketless passengers crowding into AC / reserved cars is flawed.
Regardless of how many more numbers of trains are run on a specific route. You are not going solve the problem of over crowding. Unless you solve the reason why so many people are working out of their own home states.
You have highly populated but de-industrialised states from where workers have to travel in order to find work. Such people have to travel. You cannot stop them. The only option for many of them is to travel in reserved coaches. On general tickets.
Unless those states started to industrialise. This issue cannot be solved.
Even though this is a problem that effects the railways. The solution is not available with the railway. Unless you want to physically prevent people from boarding trains. Along with the attendent consequences of such an action.
1. Delhi.
2. Gurugram (Gurgaon).
3. Faridabad.
4. NOIDA.
5. Ghaziabad.
and Rohtak, Sonipat, Panipat, Meerut, Jhaggar, Buluhdshaher, Hapur, etc are already being counted as part of NCR., high speed trains are being created (Delhi-Meerut) for commuters to move in/out.
Instead of moving the industries out of Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Banglore, Chennai they are getting entrenched and concentrated there.
2nd-tier cities like Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Thiranthapuram, kochi, coimbatore are already at their max resources (water , electricity, roads, rails, etc).
3rd-tier cities (less than 15 lakh of population) still could be developed to ease out the metropolis areas. Vast majority of people traveling on trains are labor (agriculture or infrastructure) and daily commuters.
Statistics: Posted by SBajwa — 09 Jun 2024 01:53