A good proposal
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications has recently proposed to the government to create a new ministry for railways (DS:23.06.10). I praise this proposition as it was overdue and a long felt necessity. The railway has huge manpower, huge land property and resources and enormous prospects. But as has always happened in all pristine departments in our country; lot of unnecessary, worthless and political elements in the name of workers and experts intruded into the organisations. The same has quintessentially happened in the railways. Umpteen times the railway tried to sell out its property, especially precious lands to the private parties and sometimes they succeeded. Though the railway is a losing concern of the government, yet the luxurious lifestyle and benefits taken from the government and the organisation by the officials and some union leaders will tell the real story of its dilemma.
Worldwide train is one of the cheapest, fastest and popular means of transports. If the government is sincere enough to improve the railway for the sake of the benefits to the people there are lot of scopes and prospects. But without having any vision to improve the transport system creating a new ministry will mean only a new set of useless recruitment of political people, new expensive vehicles, new ministers (may be new adviser too) and addition of huge expenses.
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