The Great Mobile Slum

The Indian Railways is perhaps the largest commercial operation in the country. It is also a monopoly except a few privatized trains (Tejas Express) introduced in recent times. So, why should a giant monopoly incur losses or why should the Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw claim the railways is losing money on subsidies. Firstly, everything PM Narendra Modi does has an element of scam in it. Nothing he does is without a scam. The Railways is no exception. It is the largest running scam for many years. First, let us get some unpleasant facts out of our way – the Indian Railways is perhaps the most horrible rail service in the world. It is lawless, there is no value for reserved passengers, there is no crowd-control on trains and to describe it in short, you could call it a “mobile slum”. I can produce hundreds of videos to prove this point but this one should be a good enough sample (Video: 9 secs):

Vaishnaw constantly claims Railways spend a huge amount to subsidize rail tickets. This implies the Railways makes losses. Why should it make losses? In 2017 the Rail Budget was merged with the regular Union Budget and since then people have no way of knowing Railways plans, fare hikes, new routes or what plans are in the offing. It became a totally opaque and corrupt operation than it was earlier. As for the services, you could say it is probably the same as Somalia or Rwanda. In other words, to put it mildly, the Indian Railways is the BIGGEST SCAM currently in operation in India. For FY24, Railways had a turnover of 2.56 lakh crores. That size of operation with a monopoly leaves enough holes for rats to flourish looting the railways in any operation:

Railways makes profits in anything you transact with it. Book a ticket – they profit. Book a freight train – they profit. Cancel a ticket – they profit. Miss a train – they profit. So much, that over a confirmed ticket of 175/- you will lose 120/- as cancellation charges. You cannot cancel after chart is prepared. In fact, the whole system of cancellations in Railways is a SCAM by itself. It is not cancellation charges, it is rather PENALTY for cancellation. In any cancellation, including waitlisted tickets that auto-cancel, the service charges or GST are not reversed. It’s gone! Absurd, idiotic rules that levy a heavy penalty for the inconvenience you cause the automated-clerks:

 

The biggest scam in recent times has to be the manner in which railways was operated during and after the Covid period. During the lockdown for 2 months from end-March 2020, all trains were also suspended. But as the services slowly returned, the GOI ran the biggest scam that most people completely missed.

# Firstly, the changed all the trains to “Special” and prefixed “0” before the last 4 digits of the train number to give it a new FAKE identity.

# They then increased fares of all classes under the excuse of social-distancing by keeping the middle-berths unsold (although if you issue RAC tickets, MBs will be used anyway).

# They hiked fares of all full-AC trains like Rajdhani/Shatabdi even though they had stopped linen and food services. Covid certificates with Modi’s photo was made mandatory (the GOI later claimed vaccination was never made mandatory). What FRAUDSTERS!

# I had pointed out this entire scam through a thread of tweets and the public also started noticing the scam. So, the GOI stated they will revert the fares to pre-Covid levels. But did they? No, they did not.

In short, the criminals of Modi govt exploited a situation like Covid with falsehoods used to fear-monger to actually loot people:

How in the world does Vaishnaw claim that Railways is subsidizing tickets? It is true that AC classes are charged excessively to partially subsidize the 2^nd Class tickets. The subsidy also comes from freight revenue. But that is also an illegitimate loot. AC fares are further subjected to surge pricing and premium Tatkal which have no explanation offered to customers. Any price any day any whim is their rule. So, let us examine this fraudulent claim of subsidy:

If a plane with a capacity of 180 seats flies 360 passengers with 180 standing, they could afford to halve the ticket price. But airlines have to follow international rules and cannot indulge in such stupidity but our Railways can. Do trains run to capacity? They mostly run with passengers far more than their capacity. A regular Express train with a capacity of around 1000 passengers with 800 2^nd Class berths/seats carries almost 3000 2^nd Class passengers. The unreserved coach or “Gernal” coach or DeenDayal coach carries at least 4 times the capacity on every train. This means a seat for 100/- is sold 4 times, i.e. Rs.400 per seat. So, where in hell is the question of subsidy when the passenger doesn’t get a seat or berth that the train is supposed to give him? This is where the FRAUD is. Like I said earlier, Indian trains are “mobile slums”. A house with one room accommodates dozens of people. This may lead to shortage of water, facilities, garbage dumps – you will find all this in trains too. It’s a simple arithmetical calculation that doesn’t require the brains of Sagarika:

Vaishnaw can argue that the subsidy is over and above the money collected from excess sales of tickets over and above the capacity of the trains. But that would compound his moronery of defending a poor business model, which is what the Railways is.

IRCTC was formed in 1999 and became operative in 2002. It became a listed company. IRCTC handles all the passenger ticketing, catering services and Heritage and Luxury tourism for the Railways. A few years ago it also became a full-fledged travel agent offering air-tickets, bus-tickets, hotel bookings etc. It is fully owned by the GOI (Ministry of Railways). IRCTCs turnover is ONLY computed by the service charges it collects. The fares go to the Railways or the respective operators of the service. It may also get commissions from airlines or other tour operators. In 2024-25, IRCTC’s turnover is likely to be around 1500 crores with a profit of around 350 crores. These are rough estimates. IRCTC has also offered dividends from its profits to its shareholders in the previous years. So, the question is: If IRCTC (practically a “pimp” of the Railways) can regularly make profits, offer dividends and have a good share price in the market – WHY SHOULD RAILWAYS MAKE LOSSES?

The answer to that question of Railways making losses is simple. It is too big a commercial operation handled by one single Ministry and one Lipstick idiot called Ashwini Vaishnaw with no responsibility or accountability at any level or stage. I am not going into a discussion of all the accidents and deaths that Railways cause or the deaths by stampedes or falling of foot-over-bridges – that incompetence compounds their losses. The Railways is like a kitchen-sieve that we use to filter grains and stuff. It is full of holes that leaks from everywhere with everyone looting it in every operation. There is one report where a person gave a job in Railways for 15 lakhs. If you Google for Railways-Scams, it will run about 3-4 pages on your computer.

Over 50% of Railways expenses are on manpower – salaries, benefits, pensions etc. That is a huge amount considering the revenue from transporting humans is a loss-making business for the Railways while the freight revenues compensate partially for the losses. Consequently, Railways have to be regularly funded from the Union Budget for any capital investment or as additional resources to sustain itself. Of the 17 zones of Railways, 9 zones had an operational ratio of over 100% in 2023-24. So, they do know which areas are making the big losses.

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Mother Of Illegals

The last census was due in 2021 but for some reason it is simply not happening. Times have changed from when a census every decade was adequate. In this day and age the govt must have a department of population that gives out details every month. And there are enough devices and tools available to do this. But only a criminal govt would deliberately postpone census because the truth about the population is going to be ugly. The population is now regularly quoted at 140 crs but it may very well be 160 crs. The figures are being churned out by some calculations by the UN or IMF. India is infested with far more illegals than any country in the world and it is safe to assume that PM Narendra Modi wants to hide his incompetence and failure on that front by dodging census. He is criminally dodging it for 5 years now:

Political parties now want census based on caste. Under Modi, India has now degenerated into a country where representation, policies, economy are all driven by caste, gender and religious considerations. India is unfortunate to have a circus clown as a PM who also suffers from HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder) and behaves like an item girl from Bollywood at all times. Naturally, ministers under such a clown will compete to be bigger clowns with their statements on illegals changing as frequently as the costumes of Modi:

Nobody really knows the population of Hindus and Muslims in India. Nobody really knows the population of illegals in India. It could be 2 crores or it could be 10-crore illegals. Considering these illegals have been floating around since 1970 and multiplying, 10 crores may not be bad estimate. The illegals have been a nuisance in India since 1970s taking up jobs, taking up resources, taking up housing and, most of all, indulging in violent crimes. Most of them being from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Rohingyas are obviously Muslims. This uncontrolled influx defeats the very purpose of the half-baked partition and, once again, drives India into a second phase of Islamification aided by Modi and other politicians and parties. This is a silent killer like Diabetes. The victims are clearly Hindus who are going to end up having no real country of their own.

There is a pattern to this criminality of Modi and his goons that pass off as ministers. In election after election since LS2014, Modi and his goons have been promising to evict illegals. Hardly anyone has been deported in the last 11 years – may be just about 2500. But now, this gang of Hindu-drohis who nurture these illegals has adopted a strategy that makes illegals an issue in every state election REPEATEDLY. The issue of illegals has to be handled by the GOI regardless of which party rules any state. But scoundrels like Amit Shah will make you believe that it’s the state that is the criminal. It has become one of their main bargaining chips in state elections:

The discussion has now come to a boil after the new US President Donald Trump has ordered a massive hunt of illegals in the US and their deportation. Among the ones deported so far were a batch of Indians who were dumped at Amritsar a few days ago. More will follow. On his recent trip to the US, Modi was asked about illegals in the US. This brainless village bumpkin grandly spouted nonsense about “Human trafficking”. NO! The Indian illegals in the US are NOT victims of human-trafficking. They are rich persons who have paid lakhs and crores to pimps and agents just to get to the US somehow. They are not victims. Victims of human-trafficking do not pay money to be somewhere. They are taken against their will. That’s the kind of ignoramus that India has as PM:

However, the illegals in India from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma are not rich folks. Most of them are poor sods who escaped their wretched country into India illegally and are here for many years. In 11 years, the Modi govt has not taken a single action to deport them or to even identify them. On the contrary, these illegals have multiplied their population in India with marriages, birthing endless number of kids and the Modi govt housing them with all facilities and police protection. Consequently, these kids of illegals born in India will have to be treated humanely and have to be given all the food, education and protection as any other children from anywhere. Children cannot be discriminated against in anyway regardless of their origins at least till their families are deported from the country. That is exactly what the GOI stated in the Supreme Court and that is also exactly what the SC enforced. The fault is not with the SC ruling at all, they have merely reiterated what the govt has already committed to the court. Only those #Moditards and pimps of the worst kind claim the SC is holding back deportation, which is FALSE:

A few weeks ago, the same SC pulled up the Assam govt for not deporting foreigners and holding them in detention centres. The grand excuse that the Biswa-govt offered was that they did not have the addresses of the detainees. Seriously, what morons of what intelligence run these govts? You would have to wonder if these idiots are running Zomato or Swiggy services for “Door-delivery” of illegals. The more I see these episodes, the more I am convinced India is being run by the biggest bunch of morons on earth and this country has a terrible future. All the economic and military nonsense will not redeem such a country with such pathetic people:

The SC has ruled that those who came into India from 1971 (even as refugees from the Bangladesh) are illegals. Deporting illegals from India was one of the biggest promises Modi made for LS2014. Far from deporting the illegals, Modi has become the MOTHER OF ILLEGALS, not only housing them and protecting them but also allowing them to dramatically increase their population and grandly giving many of them citizenship between 2014 and 2019. Who knows, they could be 2 crores or 10 crores. Illegals are not victims of “human-trafficking” as he grandly claims. They are here by their own choice. So, what is the motive for protecting them? We cannot be sure but can make a safe estimate that Modi does so under orders of the ME Sheiks for his cheap dog-collars. Trump may not succeed in evicting all the illegals from the US but that he is making a war-like attempt to do so will certainly bear good results. As for India, I guarantee no major numbers of illegals will be deported. They are the “Pariwar” of Modi and Modi is their Mother.

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