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Increasing non-fare revenue for Indian Railways

Increasing non-fare revenue for Indian Railways
Start Date :
Jun 14, 2016
Last Date :
Jan 01, 2017
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Although Indian Railways enjoy the highest captive eyeballs in a railway system internationally, it earns less than 5% of its revenues through non-tariff sources. Many of the world ...

Although Indian Railways enjoy the highest captive eyeballs in a railway system internationally, it earns less than 5% of its revenues through non-tariff sources. Many of the world railway systems generate 10% to 20% of their revenues from non-tariff sources.

IR typically has focused on increasing revenues through tariff hikes. It wants to change this and challenge the conventional thinking by exploiting new sources of revenue so that every asset, tangible or non-tangible, gets optimally monetized

We invite ideas from citizens on increasing non fare revenue for Indian Railways.

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Abhishek Sharma
Abhishek Sharma 9 years 6 months ago
Verification of tickets on train and platforms must be made digital. Cut pen-paper-printer usage by at least 80%. You'll save lots of revenue pilferage.
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Abhishek Sharma
Abhishek Sharma 9 years 6 months ago
1. Goods Trains can also earn advertisement revenues. 2. The Pantry Cars can be given to more than one vendors of repute. Criteria can be laid out like number of outlets ready being run, consumer opinion ranking etc. When you enter into production of food and beverages, it works at lesser efficiency. So hand over them to other entities and earn your fee and costs. 3. Cut on stationery. Go digital. Issue bar coded tickets (linked with Adhaar card) on simple papers. 3.
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Ashok Kumar Kannan
Ashok Kumar Kannan 9 years 6 months ago
Railways hold huge real-estate in prime areas, which are remaining untapped. Especially, the Mass Rapid Transit Stations (MRTS) in Chennai have huge spaces lying unused harboring anti-social elements and stray animals. Leasing this space out for restaurants, shops would not only increase non-fare revenue, but will also have a check on the anti-social activities in these spaces during odd hours.
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Ashok Kumar Kannan
Ashok Kumar Kannan 9 years 6 months ago
Promote Cashless transactions in big way introducing RuPay PoS machines in all ticketing counters / supplying RuPay PoS machines to TTEs and offering discounts on RuPay cashless tickets / season tickets to encourage commuters to go cashless. This move will save cost involved in handling cash and the related logistics.
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Sivakumar P P
Sivakumar P P 9 years 6 months ago
#NonFareRevenue Increase the average speed of trains e.g. There are some routes in which there is no electrification in some middle section of the route. So here engine is changed from electric loco to diesel loco. This takes around 20 minutes (blocks train, platform). So please identify such bottlenecks and electrify those on priority.
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Santosh
Santosh 9 years 6 months ago
On railway station ticket checkers taking money in cash in this mode lots of curruption is running. If government give them POS terminal to take money form passengers. After blocking this mode TC have no chance to do coruptiion.
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Dhankhar Raj
Dhankhar Raj 9 years 6 months ago
All across Europe, you have shops on very-2 small stations, junctions usually are full of shops of every kind. People need lot of things in transit, having a small market on rail station will increase employment and revenue for govt.
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SK Gawali
SK Gawali 9 years 6 months ago
In big cities and metropolis the railway stations occupy very big lands which is scare resource. These lands can be developed on BOT/ BOOT/ PPP models for commercial complexes with lower ground level being used for railways and passenger operations and entire top floors be given on lease to private entities for service sector like banks, insurance, legal, travel and tourism etc.
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Gopinath Varahamurthi
Gopinath Varahamurthi 9 years 6 months ago
1) Separate fare for vendors, commuters and long journey travellers, students. 2) Digital payment encouraged, no long queues, each one have their identity marked. 3) All stations should have exit and entry separate gates, they can be verified with their identity none travel without identity or digital payment. 4) liketh bar code each digital payment should be detected at entry points. we must encourage technology improvement and no tickets. ofcourse, for aged and rural areas we issue cards.
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