Indian Railways in Profit: Well done Lalu Ji

[rkumar]

There is no doubt that Mr Lalu Yadav is not only an intelligent politician but a great manager as well. Unfortunately all these years he used his brain in non-productive things. He is proving to be a great Railway Minsiter. Without increasing passenger fares he has brought Indian Railway in handsome profits for the first time. I am not sure if credit goes entirely to him or the overall working of central government. If Lalu is one the move, one can safely assume that whole India is on move now..

http://in.news.yahoo.com/060221/137/62mlx.html

Rajendra

[raj2rif]

Dear Rajendra Ji,
Indian Railways has never been in loss all these years, even though the budget presented in the Parliament may not prove that. More often than not, the profits from railways had been diverted to other areas to fill the deficit in the National budget.
The first profitable Railway Budget was presented by Mr. Madhu Dandwate in Mr. Morarji Desai's ministry in 1977-78. It was that time that we got cushions on the three tier sleepers.
I don't know much about Lalu's achievement except his rule in Bihar over 15 years and the scandles accociated with it. All that I know is an honest person can be made competent by training, however a competent person may not be made honest.
I don't intend to cast on some one's honesty or character including Lalu Ji, but the media reports and the activities that had happened since he came to power in Bihar, and his own statements prove that honesty may be a rare thing.

[dahiyarules]

The figures are fudged.

There is an annual rail budget. This is an allocation of money to Indian Railways, made by the government annually.

Read the words carefully Rajendra sir. it says surplus. It doesnt say gains or losses anywhere. Now surplus is taking into consideration the annual budget allocation. This still does not say that the railways has even broken-even.

Railways is a not for profit organization. With huge subsidies on fares, theres no way any such organization will post gains.

[spdeshwal]

I agree with you Sumeet when you say that surplss Budget doesn't necessarily mean profitable budget. Surplus Budget means "Nikkamapan". That means we have the funds but no plans to spend that or rather i would say that the dept has no will to spend that surplus money.

And disagree on the point that Railways doesnt attain Break Even because of subsidised fares but because of 'Chori and mismanagement. We all know that Railways is most currupt & mismanaged dept.

[gsvijay1]

I agree with Sumit that with subsidies fares railway can't post gains other with $20 billion worth of assets Indian railways can do wonders, if they manage their assets well.

Lalu is good in giving chatpati news items to media but I don't think he have capabilities to give five year plan to revive Indian railways. There may be some good managers working under him who are capable of sensing competition and work a contingency plan.

Indian railways have lot to improve but they are in right direction with very slow pace.

[gaganjat]

Things started when Nitish Kumar was there , Laloo gettin the credit now.

[vinodkaliramna]

Also if you see that the budget that he has presented is only talking about the current things and achievements. He has shown least panning in the budget for future and how railways is going to progress. I could personally not see any future roadmap laid by him about the budget. He has told that he will have Pizzas, cybetcafe and ATMs on the platform but has failed to give a time frame for the same.

To my opinion he is just taking credit for the good work that others in the ministry are doing. It is time for us to see how wheather he uses the resources of the nation whose economy is booming or sits with his style of getting public attention for nothing.

[rkumar]

Whatever one might say, Lallu seems to be doing great job. Recent survey showed that he is one of the top performing minister. Here is latest on his plans to train Railway officials overseas;

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1710221,0002.htm

Even GE Transport's chairman Jeffrey R Immelt praised him for his vision and performance;

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1710220,0002.htm

Mr Lallu Prasad might have been a failure as Bihar CM,however, I have strong feeling that he will make a great PM.

RK^2

[positivelook]

RK Sir

Kyon Desh ka Nash karwavo ho Lallu ne P.M bana kar. Aur toh sari baat theek hain par i strongly disagree by ur viewpoint of making Lallu as P.M, Lallu is a corrupt politician and we cant accept him as P.M of india and i m sure tht will not happen in India tht Lallu will get the post of P.M.
Lallu ne itne kabade kar rakhye hein arr app kaho ho akk woh badhiya Pradhanmantree ban sake hai. Iste badhiya toh aur bhatere leader hain arr na hain toh ho jyange.

Abhimanyu Phougat

[rkumar]

RK Sir

Kyon Desh ka Nash karwavo ho Lallu ne P.M bana kar. Aur toh sari baat theek hain par i strongly disagree by ur viewpoint of making Lallu as P.M, Lallu is a corrupt politician and we cant accept him as P.M of india and i m sure tht will not happen in India tht Lallu will get the post of P.M.
Lallu ne itne kabade kar rakhye hein arr app kaho ho akk woh badhiya Pradhanmantree ban sake hai. Iste badhiya toh aur bhatere leader hain arr na hain toh ho jyange.

Abhimanyu Phougat

Don't know Abhimanyu, but my gut feeling is that he will make a great PM. As far as corruption is concerned, almost all politicians in India have this problem to smaller or larger extent. Lallu is a great unifying person and and can take all sorts of political parties together. Also he can be very tough with people like Advani and communists if required.

RK^2

[gandasa]

Very good........All India is need now is a joker like laalu as a PM and rabri as first lady.............. Good one RKK ji .......

[kharub]

Nitish Kumar was the man who turned around the fortunes of Indian Railways .. all Lalu did was just to pursue the same policies initiated by Nitish Kumar ......

(he does not deserve to be called Lalu ji ... he is Lalu 'The Clown")

Lalu Yadav is no doubt a brilliant politician but that means he is shrewd, cunning, despicible, untrustworthy, dividing yet unifying, manupilative scum .... (nothing personal against the man - being a good politicial entails all that)

The Highest Offices of power should be held by people with some dignity and morales and values .... which Lalu seriously lacks ...

He is a Clown .... he is a showman a corrupt shrewd neta from Bihar .......

I hope that day never comes when a man like him gets to be the PM of this country

and these multinational CEO's they are very smart players they know how to work people and who to link with to get their dodgy deals through the legislature ... they know how to extend their influence and they will lick anybody's ass for that .............. and this is exactly what the GM guy was doing ...

Dont take his remarks at face value

[sunildabas]

agreed with some members views that lalu is corrupt clown etc but pls give ur suggestions wether lalu is better or manmohan singh(puppet of soinia) is better. on one side we know manmohan singh is highly educauted and qualified(so many mails circulating containing his cv) but on the other side everyone knows that he is a dummy prime minister. can he take a single decesion without consulting sonia.

[rathee369]

The figures are fudged.

There is an annual rail budget. This is an allocation of money to Indian Railways, made by the government annually.

Read the words carefully Rajendra sir. it says surplus. It doesnt say gains or losses anywhere. Now surplus is taking into consideration the annual budget allocation. This still does not say that the railways has even broken-even.

Railways is a not for profit organization. With huge subsidies on fares, theres no way any such organization will post gains.

I agree with you Sumit , good point. I think it's just another fine example of what Lalu is good at , "propaganda".

[kharub]

Mahmohan Singh's weakness does not make Lalu any better ......... you cant say cutting someone's hands off is better than killing someone ...

Comparing two evils does not turn the lesser evil into good .....

Mahmohan is widely respected and regarded as a well qualified and distinguished intellect .........
Lalu lacks any such quality ......

But Manmohan has personality traits that disqualify him for a leaders job .. he lacks a certain level of masculanity in his personality .... This is the very reason that Sonia choose for him to be in power .. becasue she knows he is weak and can be played around .......