Monday, July 13, 2015

Chandigarh railway station to be made of world airports standards- news....totally skewed priority

The main task of the railways is to transport people (and goods) from one place to another. The crucial operation is the running of trains. Trains need to be (i) clean, (ii) should be safe, and (iii) run in time. In my view these are the aspects which need to be addressed first. Beautification of railway stations can wait. And making the railways stations look like foreign airports, developing of shopping malls can very well wait.

Chandigarh railway station, and for that matter a large number of railways stations across India are fairly neat and functionally adequate.

Planning is about prioritization of spending of scarce public resources on works as per need. Please dont waste public money on so called beautification of Chandigarh railway station. Let us concede that Chandigarh has no historical heritage and let us not try to look important by spending crores for 'beautifying' railway station.

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