Modi Govt. has
introduced their first installment of ‘Kadwe-faisle’ for the nation as their
train carrying ‘Achchhe Din’ has been delayed by indefinite period of time.
Govt. has decided to generate revenue for ailing Indian Railways by introducing
a massive fare-hike by 14.2% in all AC and Non-AC reserved and unreserved
classes. Protests have been erupted across the nation, as expected. On the
other hand, loyalists have started to justify the fare-hike by giving logics
which are too irrelevant to be valid in countries like India.
Pseudo-nationalists
have already declared this hike as ‘most-needed’ and ‘need of the hour’ even
without understanding the basic intention of the govt. for the hike. Reasons like “Hey, we are happily paying Rs.
200 for Auto-Rickshaw but crying for paying Rs. 20 for 50 kilometers in train.
Kewl.” And “You have to pay more if you want to enjoy better service. Huh.” can
be easily spotted on every nook of social networking websites. Every wannabe-sarcastic Tom, Dick
and Harry is trying to prove this hike a welcome move of govt. with such an
expertise as if they are the professors of “Benefits of inflation” in Oxford
University. Irony is, most of them don’t even know the name of our Railway
Minister and most have had passed their Economics paper in third attempt. But
then they are loyalists, expecting them to think logically is a sheer mockery
of logic. These loyalists are same people who left no stone unturned to
criticize previous governments for the same reason: fare-hike.
I think, this
fare-hike is least needed step and must be final step of govt. to cure ailing
railways. It could have been taken when every other methods fails to deliver.
For an instance, if we apply our common sense and basic mathematics, we all are
fully aware that trains are running over capacity which simply implies the
generation of extra revenue than intended to achieve. Why you need to implement
fare-hike, then? Hire more ticket-checkers instead and penalize Without Ticket
dwellers to ensure more revenue so that already inflation-hit common man does
not need to be burdened with such financial tortures. Having said that, it is
quiet logical that hiring more manpower for this purpose need more expenditure initially
but it will bring more collection of
fine and penalties and will also ensure better ticket-selling in near future.
This will not only justify the recruitment of more people in railway, it will
also bring surplus revenue to the railway eventually. By doing so, employment
opportunities have been already created per se.
Besides, even if it
is extremely needed to impose a fare-hike, couldn’t they wait for 3 more weeks
so that it can be done in well planned manner in budget session? If we are to
pay some extra amount for the same distance that we travel, we deserve to know
where that money is going to be invested, and that could be fulfilled by the budget
only, when there will be an extensive debate over it, covering all the pros and
cons associated with this. It will also justify the bullshit logic of ‘Accept
the hike for better service’ that Bhakts are hurling in their every statement.
Any collection of money without proper justification of its purpose and
implementation is Extortion. Besides, the same ‘Father-of-development’ , our present Prime Minister had earlier criticized
the previous government for implementing fare-hike before budget session in March
2012.
Also, this so called
pro-development government is claiming that the decision of incrementing the
price was taken by UPA govt. and what they are doing is only implementing. Aah,
what a bunch of losers. So they cannot tolerate the governors appointed by UPA,
they have no faith in committees and their Chiefs appointed by previous
government, they have always criticized their every move, won election by
trying to prove that every decision by previous govt. was wrong and here they
are showing no hesitation in implementing their decision just because it would
help them politically. Shamelessly blaming UPA government is the icing on the
cake.
But things are not as
simple as it appears to be. What I personally believe that this Rail fare- hike
is a politically wise move taken by the govt. which may not do any good for the
nation but will surely help BJP as a party. There is a very high probability
that present government wanted to avoid any kind of hike or Kadwe Faisle in
Budget Session or two-three months beyond that because the Bhartiya Janta Party
has to fight assembly elections in states like Delhi and Maharashtra in coming
few months and any kind of price-rise or fare-hike will cost them in upcoming
elections. We must not forget that we live in a nation where the impacts of
controversies and allegations die within a matter of few weeks. This too will
settle down soon and people will get ‘used to’ to the revised fare. After then,
they can easily fool the people with slogans like ‘Achchhe din’ and ‘good
governance’. It is pure politics, my friend. NaMo Brigade is no fool. Instead they
are people with Ph.D. in fooling around.
Concluding this
topic, I have to say that there will be people who will display their loyalty
by defending the fare-hike by giving dumbest reasons possible. I am fed up
listening “Give this chap some time. Don’t judge him so soon.” Ironically,
people coming up with such statements are the same extraordinary minds who were
started to judge Delhi’s Kejriwal government from day one. Hail hypocrisy.
Note: Bang your head
on nearest wall if feel annoyed, angry, hateful. It may also bring otherwise
improbable ACHCHHE DIN.
