why senior citizens are not granted concession in basic fare for Tatkal tickets?,"

The Railway Minister should end discrimination in fare concession to Senior citizens for Tatkal tickets. Though senior citizens get 50% concession of tickets for female passengers and 40% for male, the same concession are not granted in basic fares while buying a Tatkal ticket.

Tatkal is not a fare but a charge levied by the railways for additional berth quota it makes available. "The railways levy Tatkal charge for special quota but why senior citizens are not granted concession in basic fare?,"  All concessions & facilities to Senior Citizens are also as``Respect to Elders`` and not exclusively for financial relief, as such concessions are admissible to Ambanis, Tatas etc also. Each Public Authority has to take effective steps to improve the quality of life of all Elders, strengthen their legitimate place in society and help them to live their last spell of life with purpose, dignity and peace. Keeping this Mandate in view, Ministry of Railways must reserve some quota for Senior Citizens in Tatkal Tickets also and give concession, as for other tickets. Moreover, concession in fares is for all classes of all trains and Tatkal Tickets are also for these trains and not for any Special/Superior trains like local or passenger trains for which concessions are not given!! One more action of Ministry of Railways to give 40% to males & 50% to females is discriminatory and causing divide in the Society! Definition of Senior Citizen does not discriminate between males & females and as such fare concession should be same for all Senior Citizens.

Opposition lacks contructive programme

It is high time that the opposition parties understand the mind of youths of the country. They are interested in jobs, better educational opportunities and want to live a dignified life ,They are fed up with petty politics over caste and religion. That is why these things did not work in the last general election to the Lok Sabha.This is likely to be repeated in the assembly elections to be held in the near future.

 

Power grabbing by hook or crook has become the main and only target of Indian opposition parties with the result that they always try to create vote banks by generating social divides in the name of caste and religion. They do not have any constructive programme to serve the people of India and win their hearts by service. The result is: even the smallest event take communal colour due to over reactive and opportunist opposition politics. Reservation in government jobs on caste basis were played again and again with the same target in mind.New political alignments in Bihar have come up with the same caste politics in mind but they must understand BJP won the last elections not due to caste/religion but on the basis of new hope for growth and  prosperity generated by the Honourable PM,Narendra Modi.

 

Let all political parties understand  the message given by the Indian electorate through its voting pattern in the last general election and adopt a constructive stand  for national building instead of opposing everything for the sake of opposition and finding faults with the Central Government.

disband the IAS and like services and bring real democracy in India.

Recently lot of controversies have been going on with regard to the process of holding examination for selection of IAS/IPS etc. every young graduate is aspiring to be IAS. But why??IAS/IPS  officers  consider themselves as super human and have highly inflated EGO.They may be talented but there is huge pool of other talented persons who can serve the country better,if given a chance.Basically the Britishers had created ICS to rule this country from thousands miles away.Things have now changed.India is now a free country but we are still continuing with the legacies of the past.We are a welfare state.We have to work for the progress and prosperity of millions of Indians and live with our head erect.

There is necessity to allow people with talent to serve the Government  in Power for implementation of their policies.Experts/specialists from different fields can be recruited by the Government on contract basis to serve the full term of the Government and then they may revert to their field of specialization once the new Government takes over who can have their own team of officers similarly recruited.

The huge establishment running the day to day business of the Government also need to be pruned and minimized. IAS becomes heads of everything as if they know everything and others who may be specialist in their fields are all mediocre. This attitude must go.

Let there be opportunity for qualified and talented people to serve the country in top positions not on the basis of seniority in a particular service like IAS but on the basis of merit tested at the nick of time.A person passes an examination/interview(howsoever tough it may be) some thirty years ago and then keeps ruling the country all over his life.This is ridiculous.It is appropriate that the  Government reviews the system,disbands the IAS and like services and bring real democracy in India.

pl improve railway ticket booking system..................

Railway budget has come.Opposition parties are making unnecessary hue and cry.Railways are in shambles and need complete overhauling.The opposition leaders who have hitherto been ruling railways have spoiled the whole railways specially the ticket booking system.When people are willing to purchase tickets directly from the railways or IRCTC where is the justification for having agents for booking tickets.Internet and mobiles are available everywhere and the travelers can book tickets directly from railways/irctc.There is horrible bungling in booking TATKAL tickets ONLINE.The relevant webpage opens and logsin only when  the tickets get waitlisted and touts sell them for anything.Some efforts were made earlier also to improve the system but these are not delivering the desired result.

Let the new Railway Minister have a freehand in checking such loopholes in the railway functioning.

Image of the Railways can be improved though the single act of checking malpractices in the railway ticket booking by bringing more transparent and efficient ONLINE ticket booking  system.The Rail Minister has announced booking of rail tickets though Post Offices. This will certainly help but much more remains to be done in the matter on priority basis.

UPA appointed Governors must resign....................

New government headed by Honourable Modiji was elected with thumping majority by the people but the Governors appointed by the UPA Government are still clinging to the chair and trying their best to save it..This is unethical,and illegal .Everybody knows that the Governors are appointed as their representative in states by the central government in power at that time.Once the government has changed,they should have resigned from the post automatically.But the fact of the matter is that most of them have not resigned so far despite being told to do so by the Central Government.Congress ,too, is supporting them to create confusion and legal difficulties for the Central Government without perhaps remembering that they themselves had removed several BJP/NDA appointed Governors in 2004 in similar situation.

It is appropriate that the Governors appointed by the UPA Government resign without delay failing which the Central Government should remove them as per existing precedents in this regard.