Can Mamta's Deccan and similar lost cost budget handle the onslaught of highly increased prices?Or ever can it compete with business icon of Indian Railways Lalu's Budget.
As a kid ,strange as it might seem,I always used to scoff at cartoons,and why not i should?when even turning older i love to hear duck tales at my cell phone ringing bell.
And though the yearsmy favourite always remained the mammoth man made of some metal steel,Superman of course!As comical as reasons mite seem,I had to berate him(certainely there is no other good reason for a superman to coexist).For me, superman was,in short,a loser,who was like a sissy with one pocket full of Kryptonite!And then who was my favourite toon emperor?yes none other than the same man of niggardly behavior avuncular Scrooge who cudn't ever fly.Now consider this he couldn't ever fly;he was never there to social service ;and saving the world was an alien to his mind as Indian football team thinking about Qualifying the World Cup(No mockery but we haven't made it to qualify ever)
And what more Scrooge had even eaten Kryptonite dry for breakfast and not having digestion(till lunch atleast)So what was he there for MONEY-the only Scrooge living factor.Perhaps,Scrooge never cared about relationships nor what poeple said about his dress after all he undesstood money matters.
I guarantee,the deja vu and the metamorphic similarity would hit you as hard as it hit me,if you were to compare like i did with Mamta's WB based economically driven,overflaunted,unexpectedly expected budget with that of Lalu's deccan driven budgetry.
India's LCC(Low cost carrier) industry with a competitor that they had never expected would churn out something yeilding.And then we say Lalu Prasad Yadav via Indian Railways or either way.Think about it,Lalu 'Scrooge' Yadav doesn't care about relationships what people think of the man & style,gives two hoots about what people imagine or his deportment,and would kick 'world saving' ideas out of his diary farm if it would cost him a penny.But the one issue CEO lalu has never lost of in all these years,is Profit either way his or Industry!The Indian railways never saw such a brighter time than before,and what the LCC industry focussed on? social service.What else would you cal after operating with humugous losses of thousands of crores and still attempting lowest price?
Th strategic moves have been diffrent in Lalu's era some techo some innovative he turned railways from rags to riches to quote a few of which i think had been revenuary;
1)Booking of Rail Tickets through Mobile Phones.
2)On-line arrival departure information board.
3)Free Monthy season tickets fro students.
4)50% Concessions for lady ,senior citizens,AIDS patients
5)Staff benefit funds.
6)Garib Raths(Low cost A/C trains )
and on similarlines the biggest of all bringing back railways from loss making to the prfit churning industry-On contrary what has Mamta maam done-oh god!few mishaps at seasons' start,weak signal functioning performance,the poor industry has no money left to its budgetry but she says that in seven months we can add few number to 99 new trains.Seems like WB will now be the major hill station when the maximum population & pollution part grows there how is it feasible that we can have more & more trains for WB only.The need of the hour says that Connecting India is more inmportant than connection in one two many functions that too theory of maths calls invalid.
No who goes and asks Mamta Maam that a cancear patient will never take chance with his life to travel under such circumstances -who knows that train mite end cancealed or may reach at destination when its of no use.Even the students have been given privilage of new trains to offer but how can be that each and every student be traveling to WB.
Already the Museums if India under poor state and face difficulty to attract a lot of tourists then who takes pains to see the train museums when we can already stand on the tracks and see the real facet.She is thoughtful and says that the costs of cements,coal,iron may be increased subject to FM but she says that the costs hike needs no change and on the other hands FM ministry has already put his hands up with revenuary at railways instead of showing plumb has been showing a continual descendend .She forgets that there are no low lost fares left in India and there will not be in future-the budget is just to present without any addendum of any utility or facilitating big to the mass.
2 comments:
hmmm...nice comments...I agree....when lalu left Indian railways had 20000 crores of sulprus.
and mamta cnsumes 16000 crore...every second train is for bengal where people still find tough to access stations!!!!!!1111
good comparison b/n lalu and mamta but the excellent part is the analogy b/n scrooge and lalu which r indeed vry much similar...
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