Reality of Indian Trains 

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The simple reason is INDIAN MINDSET. People don't care about public property. And tbh i dont see any major change in this mindset anytime soon 😑😑

Sad reality is that most of the ticket-less passengers aren't the ones who can't afford, but they simply don't want to spend even if they can afford the tickets. They know that TTEs and the Railway police won't do anything. Very often you have to fight for your reserved berth with these without ticket people and they even act like goons and hijack the seat.

This is an excellent topic! Foreigner here giving her two cents on this topic. I have traveled on Indian trains many times. As a tourist, I can afford a better train class, that's a reality. In 2019 I traveled from Agra to Varanasi on a sleeper train and the experience was really, really bad. I will say this with respect to the dignity of people in India: there is a general lack of hygiene that has nothing to do with how slow or fast or modern is a train. People are not capable of using a washroom in a civilized manner! I truly don't understand why people throw their garbage on the streets. Why people damage a toilet throwing all sorts of garbage! I had to literally stand in the washroom, doing a split to use the toilet!!! It was filthy to a level of almost vomiting. The problem is that people in India are not willing to change the way they used to do things in the past but expect to have a better life. The main problem is in their minds. It feels as if people don't care about basic hygiene and social manners.

Ghutka should be banned

When I went to Vietnam, I was surprised the way they have maintained the trains there. People take responsibility to take care of the train.

General + Bihar +Festivals = Boom 🔥🔥

As someone from kerala, we normally avoid SL class of trains going / coming from Bihar, UP, Bengal, Jharkhand and Assam. There is no way someone can enter in it. The smell would be horrible of Gudka and they put trash all over the floor. Toilet will be a mess and there will be double the occupancy in SL.😂🙏

Actually south trains are very clean, every year we go to banglore from solapur(Maharashtra) to our grandparents home, never so dirty toilets but in some rural places near banglore people ask you to adjust seat but when you refuse they'll go away! but in AC compartments I dont face any problems

One mega point is about 64% of railways revenue is spent on salaries, pensions and more on other perks. Which is insane for a PSU with staff to user ratio is very high. I knew a 80yr old dadima collecting around 40k in railway pension of her late husband who passed in mid nineties. This problem is there with many gov departments. This limits on how much money can be spent on actual infra. Also bureaucracy is insane with British mindset and many levels especially lower levels. NRMU has opposition to all major changes that can let rail earn more but jeopardize their jobs or even stop recruiting in future. Veg-automatic ticket gates, guard less trains etc etc. The rot is internal and external If you ever want to see NMRUs mindset, just go to any rail office and see the kind of pics they have on their calenders.

As a south indian i have advice for fellow south indians: never travel in sleeper class in trains travelling through UP, bihar, assam bcz others with no tickets will sit in ur seat irrespective of ur reservation n doesn’t let u sit. (Saying out of my own experience)

Once upon a time, I was traveling on a train. I found a big piece of SHIT on one of the seats. I still remember that.

As a person who has worked on contracts for indian railway. the work on govt logistics side for sanctioning works(6~9months after tender), allocating funds etc etc. for track work and other railway projects is extremely slow. The only time work is done faster when there is election interest. Then there is the corruption on every step of the whole railway dept. I am not aware of passenger experience side so cannot comment on day to day of these things.

Moral-Lack of population control -Lack of discipline

I think it also aligns with how the public uses it. I have seen workers cleaning it at regular intervals but people just eat and throw under the seats. And the last time I traveled some criminals on the train were constantly yelling at us to give them money. Luckily police came in time and got them out of the train. I couldn't sleep well that night. It was a lot traumatic and I thought we were going to get ourselves punched. 😑

As a Railway Employee I totally agree with your arguments. That's why the Dedicated Freight Corridor is being constructed, once it's fully operational we can see the huge traffic for Goods Trains also we will have less traffic on the main line where Passenger Trains are being operated so that we can run more passengers trains with punctuality and eventually it'll benefit Indian Railways.

Not Just in India its the problem of whole South Asia Pakistan Bangladesh India etc Its a habit we South Asian can never change, so don't expect it will happen in future too. These are basic morals that have to be taught from home

Simple formula: Never travel in general coach if you are travelling in UP - Bihar route. Overcrowding is ok..but uncleanliness is not ok. I am from Bihar and what I realised that AC coaches are much cleaner. This shows that education has a big role to play.

Indian train remind me why we are still a "third world" country, hope the situation improves drastically

Trains which goes to Punjab,South India,Bengal are damn good and clean always also crowd free... 😊 But trains which goes to Delhi and north india are always crowded and dirty as well... We even can't enter in those trains even if have confirmed ticket😢

Man as a rail fan its heart breaking when Railways and Trains suffer.

I have travelled in patna kota many times as a kota student , i have faced this hygiene issue even in 2nd nd 3rd Ac .And ABOUT timing can't really say, i once reached my home patna from kota in 35 HOURS . NEVER felt better that this issue is getting acknowledged.

I recently visited France, Italy and Switzerland, and after using their Public transport, I can say that we have a long way to go.

I travel from Cuttack to Bargarh Road by Puri Durg Express. There are only four coaches arranged for unreserved passengers. You will find 6 to 7 sleeper coaches attached to this train which remain vacant. My suggestion to the Ministry Of Railway for this train is to reduce the number of sleeper coaches and increase the number of unreserved passenger coaches.

I had boarded a special train to go to a pilgrimage place and what you said is correct. Special train only increases the traffic among the trains. Most of the time they allow other trains to go ahead at an intersection and keeps the special train on a hold. Our train was rescheduled twice and then it was 15 hrs late.

During school i had to take the metro in Calcutta, i was almost accustomed to access controlled railways. But during college for tuitions i had to take the local trains.while i and most of my batchmates had monthly tickets, a majority of the daily short distance travellers didnt have any tickets and they flounted it.. i still find it very weird. Grown men and women not taking a ticket and proud of it.

We need private players in the Indian railways system. The idea of railways doing social work while also introducing premium trains is contradictory. Only way I can see is by letting private investors get into this space and revive the system.

I swear to God, I'll never watch a video on Indian Railways while having food. They always have a toilet scene 😂

That one guy who is sitting in front of train and chilling 1:21 😂

Hygiene along with moral science must be taught strictly in primary schools.

I had the honour to meet the DRDO scientist who made this bio digester! Such a great and humble person. He has an amazing sense of humour. Thank you Dr AK Goel ji

Problem is the culture is not hygienic and lack cleanliness. You can see that in every facet of Indian life

0:43 same as karachi railways

The biggest jumla is certain "Desh ka Garib jaayega kaha.." but let me tell you about a particular incident. One of my friends boarded an express train from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction. He was inside a general coach and the train was scheduled to reach the destination (station closest to our university) the next day at around 11:30 am. We were there to meet with him at the station. He is from a pretty stable, rather rich background. He has a Kawasaki ZX-10R, uses a MacBook Pro and has an iPhone Pro series handset. When we asked him why he was travelling in such an uncomfortable and crowded coach when the very same train had AC 1st, 2 and 3 tier coaches, he said that he didn't spend any money on the ticket and got mixed with the crowd in order to evade the Ticket Collector. I have many such friends who have this mentality and show spending negligence for travelling in trains.😢

I was a student till last year and often made train journeys from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu. Before my college, I never travelled anything but sleeper non AC. But one journey from WB to TN made me gag cuz me and my father couldn't use the washroom 1.5 days💀 as it was overflowing. Since then I'm using AC compartment so to ensure the washrooms aren't dirty. The problem still persist. A majority from North belt come to South as labourers. And in AC, majority are bangladeshi patients who come to South hospitals for better treatment. One may find me discriminatory, but I endured worst toilets and to flush them myself and it was only because of these people. We also need to educate people who can pay Rs 2k tickets but trash openly. Not always the Railways are wrong. Edit- Stop fighting here. I didn't mean Biharis. It's the Bangladeshi people who can afford AC tickets and still won't flush their toilets. Y'all don't even read what I commented 💀

Please everyone raise this awareness. People deserve better railway conditions

There are not enough train coaches available to offset the demand. I travel from 3AC, in western and central railways. But they also have clogged and stinky toilets, insufficient water and even the coaches are not clean. This happens mostly because many times due to lack of coaches, they just replace the name plates of the train without even clean it after its arrival at the yard.

Ahhh😩 I had these experience 2 days before though I had confirmed seats with my family then also train was so crowded that people with no tickets were sitting on our seats . Before sitting they were like please show humanity, we only have to go few stations ahead and some of them sitting so comfortably on our seats like it was theirs only😂 .

My father had booked 4 IPL tickets for some farmers in Madhya Pradesh. They wanted to watch the MI vs RCB match. Their train was to arrive in Mumbai at 11:30am. It got delayed so many times that they reached at 10:30 pm. It was their dream to watch the match but it was shattered due the train being delayed. I cannot imagine the anxiety they must have felt.

Track expansion is pretty expensive for Railways and to complicate it more railways land is illegally occupied by squatters who are granted relief by courts.

I have watched various videos describing present situation of railways but the way you explain is really commendable .❤

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Dude it's mostly UP, Bihar & West Bengal trains that are dirty and unsafe, I've traveled from Tamil Nadu to Rajasthan never had such problem.

Possible solutions:- 1. Dedicated freight corridors They can be phased out from the tracks used by passenger trains enabling the speed to increase. It will increase the profit for railways also 2. Introduce trains which have complete unreserved coaches only, especially in the route having huge demand from migrant workers 3. Promote luxurious trains(like the Maharaja express) especially for tourists who have high spending capacity. This enables a way to earn more 4. Capacity building of tracks, which increases the speed. If speed increases, the frequency of train services which increase, which will help reduce overcrowding(since they have more options)

People are so used to this dirtiness that don't even find a problem in it, unhygiene is normal.

We travelled to Bihar Agricultural University for an Undergraduate Academic Convention and reserved 3rd AC tickets. We were shocked to see that people at night came while we were sleeping and said seat dedo hm 4 ghnte baad utar jaenge. Boy it was so hard to save our seats, they weren't ready to budge. Even when we managed to save our seats , they left while saying that we were mean for not giving them seat and chose to sleep

Living in Delhi, i have observed that you will see this dirty and uncultured behaviour almost exclusively in North India. Whereas South Indians, even the poorer ones, are extremely well-behaved; the trains are kept very neat and they always buy tickets. Education is the only way out.

I think.....the main problem is Population 😢

I decrease my water consumption by 50% when traveling by train compared to days when I am not traveling. Usually, I travel in AC 3-Tier. However, when there is a long waiting list for it, I have to travel in Sleeper Class. Currently, I am on a journey from Purulia Junction to Howrah Junction on the S2 coach. I am watching an informative video about Indian Railways. Thank you, @SochbyMohak, for sharing this video.

Railway should be administered by private companies because these corrupt bureaucrats aren’t gonna do anything just like airports.

Education is one way forward. Problem is not due to over population. China manages its population. So, India can also manage it. Government should experiment with Private companies partnership for some routes/trains. Just like what they did with Airports.

Awesome documentary❤❤❤.

Some trains like the Rajdhani Express from Kolkata/Mumbai to Delhi, the Shatabdi Express are the only among the few best ones that are running in India at present which can be truly called top class. Even the new Bande Bharat is below expectation as it runs late.

Konkan Railway is the best route to travel. It is because it is not directly under railway ministry but is a corporation. Also the people of Konkan are way more hygienic than others especially the north

This guy literally exposes everything what I feel...

This is very important topic which need to be solved. The condition of railway is very bad in every aspect for travellers, there washroom is never clean, very slow at speed, always delay. We all know how much important railway is for Indian traveller so government should study this problem very closely and should find a balanced solution.

i once visited shanghai and had an opportunity to travel in the high speed railways, man oh man, 2013 the railway station not only looked like an airport, but also "functioned" like an airport, you cannot go in without a ticket no waiting ticket thus overcrowding was never an issue although being the largest population back then, tickets were checked three times while entering the station, the baggage as well as before baording the train, after boarding the train, continuous cleaning of the station, no dirt nothing, i visited a hostel where my friends where living back then, while going up the flat staircase i could see red stains on the stairway, i was shocked, even living there people were accustomed too such habits, i really felt dissappointed.

Northern Trains are a nightmare for me 🥲 a family came and sat beside me, didn't even ask me whose seat is this and me being an introvert 😭 i was like drop me at my home.

I live in germany and here the local train is better , faster, and cleaner than vandebharat and you can travel anywhere in germany with these trains by buying a ticket for a month that costs 4000 rupees.And did i mention any other transport like bus, tram is also free.This is the cheapest train i am talking about forget the intercity fast trains which will be like bullet trains to india.

Its not only the general class. I was travelling in Amritsar howrah express, when I board the train my seat was occupied by another person. The persons occupying the seats called themselves people who worked in Indian Army. We booked 3 tier AC and had to stand for two stops and we had to fight for our seats. I felt really bad that we are not safe in AC coaches as well. It will remain a problem until the government or Indian Railways acknowledge this as a problem.

The reason why rich people loves travelling and so called exploring the world. And middle class people like us got nightmares to travel from one place to another even if it is for an important reason 😅

1:24 - 1) Overpopulation 2) Lack of education 3) Disrespect towards public propwrty 4) Lack of civic sense 5) Proclivity to break the law And pride in the above 5 points I saved tou 10 minutes of your time You're welcome.

See the thing is simple. The more corrupt and careless the government is the more we face. South Central railway which I am based on is good and proper functioning we still have better options and proper restrictions on non selling of gutka , etc . Nut North railways are a nightmare for us to handle. Many trains come which I receive complaints but am in no position to do anything during the 5 minute halt. For instance I got a complain about clogged bathroom in general compartment. In Northern trains people wont agree to move which leads to delaying and we have to reason for that which is a big task. My TTE friends told me that those trains are Nightmare because even the Sleeper compartment is filled with non reservation tickets.. The only change to be done is government trying to put Vande bharat etc on seperate tracks or deviate its traffic or increase general compartments and pur a restriction based on 2s seat allotment. That’s the only way . Until the government starts thinking about our good rather than their profit we are doomed.

I travelled from Kerala to Tamil nadu back in 3tier ac on july 2023 and the compartment's bathroom was similar to a bathroom of second class compartment. .

Indian mentality is the problem not money.We dont take care of our public property,use it and dump it is our habit.And some portions of the railways has to be privatised if maintenance is a priority

The solution for this problem is to make increase the price of train tickets and setup in and out gates in railway stations and this makes people only to allow who take tickets

I visited India in 2022 after 8 yrs from perth, its gone more dirty and no footpaths, too many people, I could barely sleep due to noise, Most dont care for public places Atleast I got to spend time with my sister and 2 brothers. Now Im reluctant to visit.

Train starts and ends in South India is good and safe to travel in sleeper class. North Indian sleeper class are general class and general class is like a wagon tragedy.

The problem is not only with trains Our whole country is so dirty and crowded

Very balanced analysis. 1 point which you missed out was subsidizing passenger fare from freight revenue (i.e. charging higher freight rates) is doing more harm than good. It makes Indian industry less competitive which in turn affects job creation.

Going to travel on a sleeper class from delhi to Patna🙃 it's going to be a banger 😂

Agree with many things you have said. The main issue I feel is lack of responsibility and Maintenace of hygiene by fellow Indian passengers. If they can change that attitude, India would see a dramatic change, but I feel the probability of that happening is less that than 1%. Sad!

"The people pay more attention to expensive items rather than lower-priced ones. Totally fits the Indian railway context." Is this true then like 👍

As someone who has travelled throughout India, the North Indians trains are more dirty as compared to south ones!!

Thank God Vande bharat trains tickets price are higher, Other wise some UP Bihar peoples also travel in these trains and give the shape of these trains like Other trains

I was traveling on West Coast Express from Mangalore to Chennai when this video was uploaded It was an AC 3 tier compartment and was a pleasant experience

I’m living in Germany and was surprised to know the density of tracks. This ensures large number of trains can run efficiently and faster. Also, Railway allows private companies to run operations which makes a competitive market which overall improves the quality.

Finally someone actually notices the problem and create a video on it. It's a very huge problem especially in some poor states like BIHAR where I live and whenever I travel I encounter with the same problem. Government needs to be strict with it.

Thanks Mohak for shedding some light on this major issue.

Best way to manage crowd is that don't allow anyone without ticket to enter railway station.

Travelled from Chennai,TamilNadu to Delhi in 3ac t was all smooth till we reached vijayawada,khammam station In AP,Rest of journey even 3AC coach had people with no tickets and they were asking passengers to adjust and sit,and few smoked inside ac compartments without any sense,the journey was uncomfortable till it reached ranikamalapati,bhopal stations.

This the burning topic of developing India , hopefully influencers like you help in this and we will get good quality trains to travel all over India. Thank you Mohak.

Same situation happened with me, i was traveling from New Delhi to Kolkata in reservation sleeper coach and the passengers from general coaches crowded there so much we weren't even able to go to washroom or even sleep because of so much crowd but those people were okay with it and some said that why should we waste money on reserved seats when we can go on a general ticket. Public is also a major problem in this, people dont wanna spend but want to get benefits even if its disturbing others.

You will trains generally clean in Kerala, same applies to stations. Now that you find a lot migrant labour who travels across, this has come down a bit. But the system works better here. However, despite high traffic (and they all pay ), there has not been much intitiatives to improve the infrastructureinfrastructure, much of the state runs on single line - doubling the track has hit endless delays. Theres no argument hence for more trains - but most of the local trains runs with outdated coaches. You find much better coaches running in other states where the traffic is much less. I worked as a supplier to railways and I can say that they can trim down the labour size for many outdated tasks, subcontract for unskilled jobs to save on costs. Being a public transportation system it wont work raising ticket prices, esp as its depended more by the lower classes. Theres more to say on hygiene but its a cultural issue that what railways could handle. Well one can only hope that things turn out better.

It has already been 5 years since i last went to gorakhpur my hometown. As it's very uncomfortable and unsafe to travel by train with family. I really pray this issue gets solved very soon

6:14 transgender menace💀

They should make Railway stations like AIRPORT security so unauthorized Passengers will not enter !

4:57 i don't think its the completely cancelled scheduled trains. It more like total incidents of trains being cancelled during the year. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense, though I may be wrong

8:30 Agree. I have seen people eating food and throwing remaining food/packets nearby their own seat! They dont have civic sense. Just walk few steps and there is dustbin in every coach. Use that please.

more open coaches (sleeper / general) are present, which slows down the train speed due to air drag. converting to ac coaches streamlines the train which can now run faster.

The problem is technology also .. IR should deploy proper technology to predict passengers requirements.. recently i went from Kolkata to delhi in a bikaner duronto express.. the trajn was 80% vacant at delhi sonthe remaining 10 hr journey to bikaner from Delhi was just loss for IR.. moreover seeing their late status many avoid trains especially the ones who can afford 1st ac tickets

Now because of Vande Bharat, other local trains are getting late by at least half an hour, which is frustrating. Our country needs more trains. Boy, the difference when I travel to Delhi from Kerala even in third AC is pathetic. When the train crosses Karnataka, people are just hopping in without tickets or in some cases they would only have general tickets. Once when I visited Mathura, things got out of hand, nobody had any tickets on the train and people were piling up.

This problem is mostly in North. Specifically trains towards Bihar& UP. In south the situation is better.

I travel in all classes of train people travelling without tickets is also a huge problem.

You didn’t talk about the main issue in North Indian states most of the passengers travel without tickets. They even travel in AC coaches without tickets.

I have travelled many times in trains, but I have to say, when the train reaches Bihar or West Bangal, it's suddenly filled with people. I am from Assam and here trains are not heavily crowded.

It worst when travelling from Overpopulated north . Especially through Bihar .

Railways: IRCTC converting Sleeper to AC and General to Sleeper. IRCTC discontinue most of the trains - which are completely unreserved trains. The problem is not trains. They can increase trains but problem is tracks. The traffic of trains increased by 1000% but tracks length increased only 23% from independence. Because of this, adding special trains increase even more traffic. This leads to delay and cancellation. Toilets - direct flush system ( waste on tracks), Bio digested ( Bacteria breaks down waste into methane but it has limit). Bio digested toilets also have choking problem. It requires at least 5L water for each flush and also it required minimum water pressure which is not able to do it in Trains. Another problem is Many people use toilets to throw waste like pan masla , bottles etc..claiming there is no dust bins. Introducing new trains will slow down remaining trains. Vande bharat train can travel upto 180 km/hr. But its average speed is 80 km/hr. In 2007, they claim Average speed 45-55km/hr then it is Superfast express. To be honest, IRCTC has no money. Because it's operating cost is 107% ( to earn 100 it needs to spend 107). Also because of COVID hit. But 9 out of 17 zones, operating ratio is more than 100% before COVID also. Railways earn money through: Goods traffic and passenger traffic. On average, it earns 2 rs/km. It's not enough for fuel, maintenance and staff. Why can't increase tickets: - it should compete with AC buses and cheap Airplanes. Railways is like subsidised way to travel for poor. Because of social service, they can't able to earn money. Government increase prices by - converting trains to super express : reducing stops, increasing speed, changing engines - Replacing Sleeper with AC. Mix of private and public involvement is needed to improve this situation. Since Private players know how to earn money at cheap tickets. But contracts like Private players don't have much profit.

3:09 Bhai GEN & sleeper kam karne ka main reason train ki speed badaane ko hai taaki trains air drag na ho Ab maximum section 130kmph ho rahe hai to train stable chalane ke liye AC coaches increase kar rahi hai

My experience Me and my dad once took a general train from kosi (up) to delhi due to some emergency but when we board a train it was like a whole nightmare at 7:30in the morning the coach was crowded and the toilet gate was open and people where throwing garbage and so many people sleeping on the floor and me and my dad wasn't able to stand there so we literally just hold onto a uppper berth seat to support yourself to stand and finally after 2,30 hrs we reached delhi and struggled so much to getoff the train . After that experience we decided never to travel in general coaches