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The site which serves online ticketing for Indian Railways is the largest e-commerce website(www.irctc.com)
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SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
the Biggest Company in the world in terms of employee strength. Palace on Wheels is a major part of income. connects different cities and countries. luxurious and affordable to common man. Technological advancement
Lack of safety
Poor infrastructure Delayed trains Non pro-active employees
FREIGHT SECTOR
Indian Railway carries a huge variety of goods ranging from mineral ores, agricultural produce, petroleum, milk and vehicles. Indian Railways makes 70%of its profits from the freight sector
SCHEMES INTRODUCED
Engine-on-Load Terminal Incentive Scheme Electronic Payment Gateway Wagon Investment Scheme Non-peak season incremental freight discount scheme Loyalty Discount Scheme
Commodities have been moved to higher brackets iron ore, fertilisers and petroleum products being some examples. A congestion charge has been put on specific commodities In addition, the Railways have raised the maximum permissible carrying capacity of its wagons by two to eight tonnes.
PASSENGER SECTOR
Indian Railways operates approx. 8,702 passenger trains and transports around 5 billion annually across twenty-seven states and three union territories
Catering
A view of the Garib Rath, train for the poor, that provides comfortable, air-conditioned travel at affordable cost to India's poor.
CHANGES INTRODUCED
Tatkal (instant)-reserved tickets
In the last three years, the number of tatkal seats more than doubled. In 2005-06, the daily average number of berths in tatkal quota was 43,000. The next year, it increased to 57,000 and in 2007-08 raised further to 98,000. Tatkal revenue for the Railways almost doubled from Rs 200 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 396 crore in 2007-08. No slack season (February-March and August) for trains that see high purchase of such tickets 80 per cent and above of the quota .The tatkal quota in such trains has been kept higher than others.
In the last four years, the Railways have upgraded 210 mail and express trains to the super-fast category, taking the total number of such trains to 350. These trains run at an average speed of 55 km per hour and, after the conversion, their journey time has been cut by three to six hours. However, this reclassification has also resulted in more money (over Rs 114 crore in 2007-08) for the Railways as each passenger needs to fork out Rs 15 for super-fast charges. Today, over a fifth of all passenger trains operated by the Railways are super-fast trains.
He made personal inspections in the railways. He undertook a surprise check at Rail Bhavan in New Delhi. He deducted the salaries of about 500 latecomer employees and sent them back. Lalu carried out a surprise check on a goods train coming from Mumbai at Danapur station. He found that weights of consignments were under-assessed, leading to loss of revenue for Railways. He claimed that railway officials, transporters and consignees were part of a racket. A few top BJP leaders, associated with a company called Samrudha Overseas Pvt Ltd, were allegedly involved in the racket.
He said that he would revoke the contract of A H Wheeler & Co, which runs newspaper stands on most Indian railway stations, because they were enjoying monopoly ever since English (British) left India and would invite open tender.
He maintained passenger profile so that compartments could be taken off or added to trains according to seasonal demand. As part of his drive to modernize the railways Lalu Prasad Yadav has decided to send nearly 100 top officials abroad for training in latest techniques and sharpen their managerial skills in Management Schools of USA and France. Lalu Prasad Yadav is now credited with engineering the financial turnaround of Indian Railways, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Under him, the Railways booked an unprecedented surplus of 110 billion rupees (2.47 billion dollars).