Does india currently need a bullet trainhigh speed train or does the government first need to focus on improving existing railway services

1. Does India currently need
a bullet train/high speed
train or does the
government first need to
focus on improving
existing railway services?

2. INDIAN RAILWAY
 Indian Railways (IR / भा. रे) is an Indian state-
owned enterprise, owned and operated by the
Government of India through the Ministry of
Railways.
 It is one of the world's largest railway
networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of
track over a route of 65,436 km (40,660 mi) and
7,172 stations.
 In 2014-15, IR carried 8.397 billion passengers
annually or more than 23 million passengers a
day (roughly half of whom were suburban
passengers) and 1050.18 million tons of freight in
the year.

3.  In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had revenues
of 1634.50 billion (US$26 billion) which consists
of 1069.27 billion (US$17 billion) from freight
and 402.80 billion (US$6.3 billion) from passengers
tickets.
 Railways were first introduced to India in the year
1853 from Mumbai to Thane.
 In 1951 the systems were nationalised as one unit,
the Indian Railways, becoming one of the largest
networks in the world.
 IR operates both long distance and suburban on
a multi-gauge network
of broad, metre and narrow gauges.

4.  It also owns locomotive and coach production
facilities at several places in India and are assigned
codes identifying their gauge, kind of power and type
of operation. Its operations cover twenty nine states
and seven union territories and also provide limited
international services
to Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
 Indian Railways is the world's seventh largest
commercial or utility employer, by number of
employees, with over 1.307 million employees as of
last published figures in 2013.
 As for rolling stock, IR holds over 239,281 Freight

5.  The trains have a 5 digit numbering system and runs
12,617 passenger trains and 7421 freight trains daily. As
of 31 March 2013, 20,884 km (12,977 mi) (31.9%) of the
total 65,436 km (40,660 mi) route length was
electrified. Since 1960, almost all electrified sections on
IR use 25,000 Volt AC traction through overhead
catenary delivery.

6. HIGH SPEED TRAIN IN INDIA
 While India has one of the largest rail networks in the
world, as of 2015 it does not have any kilometres
classed as high-speed rail (HSR), which allows an
operational speed of 200 km/h or more.
 Prior to the 2014 general election, the two major
national parties (BJP and INC) both pledged to
introduce high-speed rail.
 The Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor is
an approved high-speed rail corridor in India
connecting the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

7. Diamond Quadrilateral
 BJP, which won the
election, promised to build
the Diamond
Quadrilateral project,
which would connect via
high-speed rail the cities
of
Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata,
and Mumbai.

8. RESEARCH METHOLOGY
 Method: Secondary Data
i. Indian Railway official website
(www.indianrailway.gov.in)
ii. Recent and past railway budget
iii. Study of media
iv. Online public review

9. Pros
 There will be creation of new jobs via this project.
 Industries and Organizations which used to send
their representatives from business class of
flights can use a new source of transportation if
they are quite fine with the time issue.
 The bullet trains are very eco- friendly and do not
harm the nature.

10. (2/2)
 All those who fear to travel in air can travel
easily maintaining the same type of royalty.
 There will be a new mode of transportation in
India and somewhere it’s a matter of pride too
for Indians.
 The project is estimated to double its revenue
in the next twenty years after its completion

11. Cons
 The estimated installation cost for 1 Km track is
Rs. 115 Crores
 The security cost is too high
 Why will people prefer bullet trains if airways are
doing the same job in less money and less time

12. (2/3)
 India is unable to maintain its basic train
service and the Indian railways are in loss
 Yet to Start
 The middle class or a common man cannot
think of bullet trains except emergencies
because traveling in bullet trains can be a out
of pocket issue

13. (3/3)
 Land Problem
 Only 40000 Passengers
 Barden to Tax Payer

14. Scenario in China
 Sources reveal that a country like China which
is running bullet train for years is going to shut
down its service due to constant losses.
 The bullet trains linking Beijing and Langfang
will be shut down from March 1, 2015

15. General Manager (Western Railway)
 Bullet train project seems improper
 Western Railway (WR) has prepared a Rs 1,100
crore plan
 Improvement in Infrastructure
SOURCE:-
(23rd Nov 2014)

16. Suggestions
 Focus on improvement of existing railway
 Narrow gauge to Broad gauge
 Gatemen
 Signal Controlling
 Security

17. (2/2)
 Frequency of Trains
 Ticket Windows
 Time Management
 Double Line
 Ownership

18. Conclusion
Hence it having chance that Bullet train in India
may run vacant. But it is just a possibility. I am just
saying Bullet train in India must be run but after
thoroughly economic analysis not just for political
gain.

19. Reference
 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/bullet-train-project-to-cost-rs-1-lakh-
cr/
 http://www.letuspublish.com/bullet-train-india-really-needed/
 https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070403131048AALZLxx
 http://www.indianrail.gov.in/
 www.erail.in
 www.irctc.co.in
 www.google.co.in
 www.wikipedia.com
 http://www.wr.indianrailways.gov.in/
 http://www.irctctourism.com/
 http://www.claims.indianrail.gov.in/
 http://www.quora.com/Can-Indian-Railway-afford-BULLET-TRAINS
 http://www.quora.com/Does-India-currently-need-a-bullet-train-or-does-the-
government-first-need-to-focus-on-improving-existing-railway-services
 http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/maharashtra-may-lose-
mumbai-ahd-bullet-train-as-mmrda-says-no-land-114122300223_1.html
 http://english.cri.cn/12394/2015/01/22/3941s862894.htm