Yes , i really wanted to write about this. Myeself being a IIM alumini as an executive MBA student , was really feeling surprised to see Lalu's magic turning around the railways. It was no less than a harvard case study to put it in the right perspective.
Well, i thought i must actually dig a bit deep to see if it had happened just like that or lalu has really got some thing in him. I think more than the techniques he used to bring railways cash registers laughing to the bank , it was his fodder scam that made me realize the brainy bihari leader. If he can simply fool the country around and get away with a 965 crores through a innovative scam , turning around raiways was not a big achievement as far as i was concerned. Look at what he took to do the scam "Fodder" that shows his brilliance.
The latest buzz is that he is wooing the retail biggies (yes all of them in the queue) to tap in the large godowns the railways own on a leased basis , barren and fertile railways lands for collobarative farming , even he is talking about setting up small to big market stores / malls at railway stations itself so that he can tap in the potential buyers who travel . Well , do you need to say anything else ..its a master stroke if it takes off as its planned.
How about some suggestions to laluji :
--There could be preferential ticketing in the railways depending on the date of booking akin airlines
--There could be a broad band service integrated into the train
--Have a mobile net cafe akin to pantry cars ,
--Mobile charging points in all the compartments ,
-- Wi-fi enabled compartments [ all these facilities need not be free , they can be charged as the user wants so that his ticket would reflect the same]
--Drinking water cans fixed in the compartments rather than just trying to sell rail brand water packets and bottles
--Digital timers / alarm services and digital station meter indicators when the journey in progress to guide the passengers
Am sure the days are changing and the people are open to being mature and pro-active..Laluji...take the railways to the next level.. we don't mind if you can do this and probably do another scam (if not fodder ...it could be cow dung which is of wide use in many a way to produce gas atleast:_)
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Now you are really getting ahead of your time, aren't you? :D
Lalu rocks! The way I see it, he didn't necessarily do anything revolutionary; he only put into practice what people have been thinking and talking about for so long. I am sure that if there is one group that is most scared of Lalu, it is the officials' group in his department.
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