One of my relative is in the Ministry of Railways and he told me that it is the Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Mr. Sushil Kumar who is taking the decisions and Lalu has given free hand to him. Lalu simply gets the attention, that's it.
Also, note down these points:
1) Reservation charge has been hiked 2) Cancellation charge has been doubled 3) Break of journey is now treated as different journeys and each is one is charged to full ticket 4) Return ticket is charged Rs. 10 extra 5) Most of the trains are made Superfast and even superfast charges have been increased 6) 24x7 robbery in the name of Tatkal tickets 7) Freight charges increased 8) The weightage of goods on a wagon has increased inspite of engineers warning that it would weaken the tracks very soon 9) Security charge in tickets
So, no wonder that Railways are making profit. But it would be still interesting to note from where they are getting numbers like "90000 crores"??? We need to validate their accounts with an independent body and see whether its another Satyam.
