Hi,
Azad Hind express is running almost 8 hrs late from schedule everyday. This causing inconvenience to passengers. It is said by railway dept that the delay is due to safety of people. If a government cannot ensure safety for night running trains then the late schedule will remain for ever. Is it enough reason for creating inconvenience. I had booked this train tickets assuming I will reach my destination in the morning. But now if it reaches in the evening, I have to go for flight tickets. This is ridiculous.please take necessarry steps.
Sujoy

I have booked a Tatkal ticket from Secunderabad to Bangalore for 16th March online today vi a2785 Kacheguda exp. I paid a total of Rs 1051/-(Inc Tatkal charges of Rs 300) for a Third a/c berth. I cancelled the ticket within 30mins of booking. Guess how much amount was refunded back to me?? The refund paid to me was Rs 182/- and the cancellation and tatkal charges amounting to Rs 869/- was taken from my account by Railways.

Its such a horrible practice that railways charge such a huge amount as cancellation charges. No wonder Lalloo Prasad Yadav is showing Railways as "Profit making" unit year after year by following such a practice.

Railways need to stop this practice and policy and need to have more passenger friendly and reduced charges.

The introduction of the side middle berth in the sleeper coaches of trains has made train travel a nightmare experience. The original 8-seater systems was quite comfortable and could accommodate (most of the time!) both passengers and luggage even on long-distance trains. Now with the additional side middle berth being introduced, there is a terrible squeeze. It is impossible for three persons to site and travel on the side berth, since they necessarily now have to site facing the passage and obstruct the movement of people. This leads to constant irritation and several knocks to knees and feet!

As for the person having to sleep on the side middle berth, he/she has no access to the fan or window and can barely breath in the confined space even as the person in the top berth is squeezed against the roof! Incidentally, the side middle berth is also across the emergency window/exits! In case there is an accident or fire, there will be no easy access to these escape routes. Given the increasing number of accidents and other disasters in trains such as fires, the new berths are a virtual death sentence to passengers.

If the Railways under Minister Laloo Yadav want to earn more revenue, let them introduce more bogies to accommodate more passenger or raise fares, honestly! This introduction of a middle berth is a major fraud and hoax on the travelling public.

The night mare for long distance travel has to be experienced to be understood.

Quite last some time back, Indian Railways stated a policy to collect the birth charges along with the tickets at once while booking the tickets. However, vey few tickets are being confirmed. However, in all the cases, they issue waiting list, but collect the entire cost of the tickets and cost of birth. Most of the tickets are being kept for Tatkal. In absence of allotment of birth, they never return the birth charges plus interest collected at the time of booking, they they are being enriched. over and above they never understand whether they get the confirmation or not and they become pank till the last minute of reaching their destination.

To,
The chairperson (Public Grievances )
Indian Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir/Madam,
Re:Nightmare due to bed bugs & insect Menace in AC class compartments
I am one of the citizens & am proud of being Indian since our developments all around are worth praising but whatever the policies devised are not being governed, monitored & implemented religiously, keeping in the view to proudly say we can compete with any country in the world
but Some time the true patriotic person like me also get sceptical & in-confident to praise
our country due to the loop holes downline, with this pure intention I would like to narrate my personal experience while travelling by Our Railways from
Mumbai to Nagpur
I am a executive in Insurance Company & a frequent traveller,
on 23rd july I was travelling from
Mumbai to Nagpur by ACIII tier
train No.2105 (vidarbha Express) coach B3/ seat no.1

PNR No.8400247311

Ticket No.79174505
As soon as I entered in the compartment I felt some abnormal ambience inside as the coach seemed to be quite old & unmaintained but thought it may be due to administrative exigencies or owing to the rainy season but no sooner we went to bed, some Big cocroaches started crawling in the compartment but thought let some Railway employee come who will spray some insecticides & releive us but no one came through out the night but
after the cocroaches some insect started biting, I thought it may be mosquitoes
but it started getting intensified, & to our surprise the bed was fully possessed by all type of Bed bugs,
It was too irritating & troublesome, that I did not sleep for a single minute
through out my journey, I was terribly tired for not having rest, felt sick & could not attend my assignments but more than my personal agonies, I felt insulted after seeing this kind of poverty in our administration & some questions started troubling me since then, which I certainly would like to share with you with the Hope that at least it would be attended to prove that Tourism dept's slogan does't remain only in theories & advertisements,

SHOULD WE NOT TRY to prove THAT IT IS OUR "INCREDIBLE INDIA" ?
Sir, this is neither the complaint nor any notice to claim any compensations for the nightmare I went through, which may be due to negligent administration & the malpractices in your dept at various Divisional levels, purchased by various vendors, outsourced agencies just for negligent attitude from officers for lowering down their standards.
My sincere request to the top dignitories who are at the helm of affairs to decide
the best policies in the public interest, should also check these loop holes who not only
punish the citizens but defame our name in the world just for the sake of some personal gains
HOPE THE RIGHT STEPS WOULD BE TAKEN IN THIS DIRECTION AT LEAST FOR GENERATIONS AHEAD

Thanks
Sincerely yours
Dr.Ulhas Nimkar
Divisional Manager
United India Insurance co.Ltd
201, Jainson plaza
S.V.Road
Malad(W)
MUMBAI 400064
phones 022-28825900, Cell 9322140969