Did you know that in Japan if a train arrives before scheduled time it is seen as a punctuality loss? In fact, Japan measures its train punctuality in seconds. On the other hand, Indian Railways trains are generally perceived to be late – a sad reality which has not changed for several years now!
\nSince 2015, there has been a significant increase in capital investment – from Rs 12,895 crore in 2008-09 to Rs 33,931 crore in 2015-16 on new lines, gauge conversion, doubling, electrification & track renewal. Experts are also of the view that railways is spending much more on infrastructure upgradation & augmentation in the last few years.
\nHowever, in a recent compliance audit report by CAG, it has been noted that despite significant investments of Rs 2.5 lakh crore during 2008-19, there hasn’t been a notable improvement in the punctuality of trains. The audit has found a meagre 0.18% improvement in punctuality and 0.61% in the average speed of Express trains. The punctuality of Mail\/Express trains has declined from 79% in 2012-13 to 69.23% in 2018-19!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that in Japan if a train arrives before scheduled time it is seen as a punctuality loss? In fact, Japan measures its train punctuality in seconds. On the other hand, Indian Railways trains are generally perceived to be late – a sad reality which has not changed for several years now! Since 2015, there has been a significant increase in capital investment – from Rs 12,895 crore in 2008-09 to Rs 33,931 crore in 2015-16 on new lines, gauge conversion, doubling, electrification & track renewal. Experts are also of the view that railways is spending much more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}