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Contents 1 Permissions 2 Claims 3 Current Problems 4 "which is just one billion short of the entire world population." 5 IR Zones 6 The Chairman Railway Board is changed 7 Second largest employer in the world

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Bastiq▼e ^demandez 15:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Claims

Please follow wikipedia standards of neutrality and attribution when contributing to this page to prevent your edits from being reverted. Thanks! =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current Problems

Dear Sir(s), I appreciate your zeal to maintain the Indian Rail article. However, this article seems more like an official statement from Indian Rail, than a Neutral point of view. Indian Rail is passing through a very difficult phase and needs around Rs 200,000 crores for moderanisation, for which there appears to be no source of funding.

Govt is not ready to provide the budgetary support, there is only one way that is Private Participation. Further Airlines have hit hard towards upper class passengers of the railways, but being a monoply, there is lot of announcements about passenger amenities by the Railways, but ground reality is much different. If we visit Delhi Metro, then we find trains and stations as world class. All trains are air-conditioned. If Delhi Metro can do it, then why not Indian Rail - it is just an issue of investment and the attitue.

I would also request you to find the diffence between Government Accounts and Commercial accounts and then you will realise the reality of the claims of the Railways.

Further, Pay commission in 1986 & 1996 had hit badly the bottom-lines of the Railways and all other Central and State Government Departments of India. 6th Pay-commission has already been setup and will give report by 2008, effective from Jan 01, 2006, hence Indian Rail in its present avtar will definately be in red in the year 2008-2009. With 1.6 million employees, the Government can do little but to accept the reports of the pay commission.

The threat of airlines on upper class passengers of the railways, especially Rajdhani & Shatabadi is serious. This has become only possible because Indian Aviation sector has stiff competition, wheras Railways passenger services are a Government monopoly. Competition in India has always improved the things for better for the customers, be it telecommunications or aviation, if it will be there in Railways, things are bound to improve for the consumers. Regards (Sunrise10 05:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC))

We understand your zeal to maintain the neutral point of view, but you must attribute all your claims and statements to credible sites such as media organisations. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Added a link to trainalerts.com, hope thats fine

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Jeetu

it was mentioned in the article that "Sanitation in trains and stations throughout the system is getting more attention with the introduction of eco-friendly, discharge-free green toilets developed by IIT Kanpur", do we really need IITians to develope toilets?, can we just mimic the toilets and and cleanliness provided by trains in UK / london, or in US / newyork. Or how about mimicing toilets in airlines, in airlines we dont dump the human extract outside, why cant we copy that, why asking IITinas to do this research ;-)

vijay 217.171.129.68 (talk) 14:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "which is just one billion short of the entire world population."

I removed this, I don't think it is adding any valuable concrete information, and the comparison is pointless and makes no sense. --Djihed 18:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IR Zones

I have merged the two tables in the zones section, here: User:Binand/Zones of Indian Railways. Is it OK to merge this edit into the article?

Secondly, Salem division does not exist. Adding Salem under SR is POV. IR doesn't list the division here:http://www.indianrail.gov.in/ir_zones.pdf and the matter is with the Supreme Court now (http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200707260315.htm). Can we remove it from the list of divisions of SR?

Binand 14:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Chairman Railway Board is changed

Bikupa2002 18:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)According to Indian Railways Official Webpage http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/ the Railway Board members are as under:

   Chairman : Railway Board - J. P. Batra
   Member   : Electrical    - S. C. Gupta
            : Engineering   - R. R. Jaruhar
            : Mechanical    - R. K. Rao
            : Staff         - K. C. Jana
            : Traffic       - S. B. Ghosh Dastidar
   Finance Commissionar     - R. Sivadasan

This may be included

[edit] Second largest employer in the world

This page says indian raiways is the second largest employer in the world behind the Chinese Army. This is incorrect ... the US Department of Defence has close to 3 million employees. I have removed that sentence from this article ... if you can find a verifiable source to indicate that Indian Railways is the third largest employer, then put that in. If not, its better to leave out such relative facts -- its enough to just state the number of employees the company has. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.195.76.6 (talk) 20:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)