Ahmedabad, our country is unique in its diversity. We there, There has been a long-standing tradition of seeing things from a different perspective. For us Ganga and Godavari are not just names of rivers, She is synonymous with the life-giving mother. Music is not just a means of pleasing the ears, It is a means of practicing melody.
Similarly, for us countrymen, Indian Railways is not just a train equipped with one engine and one and a half dozen coaches, Our workers earn daily bread away from their home and family, Farmers, It is a bridge connecting the emotional ties of soldiers and millions of civilians with their families and loved ones. It's not just our trains that run on tracks that stretch east to west and north to south – emotions of relationships also run through them. Vast India containing the diversity of the country, Indian Railways is also a representative of the Government of India and also a symbol of the aspirations of the countrymen!
The litmus test of these aspirations comes every year during the festive season, When crores of countrymen who live away from their families return to their homes. After years of toil from the obscurity of the metropolis, These industrious people embark on the railway journey in a huge group hoping to meet their loved ones. A number so high, that if you've never worked in those conditions, you'll get chills at the sight. And, if it's about the rush of people on festivals and special days, it's not just about the railways.
You have to make adequate arrangements for stopping people at the railway station, buying tickets, refreshments etc. Apart from railway officials-employees, voluntary organizations also get support for this.
The Indian Railways has decades of experience in transporting crores of passengers to their destinations, but now all efforts are being made to gradually make the experience pleasant.
If this topic is sometimes discussed with foreign guests, they are surprised. Many colleagues who are aware of traffic management, on hearing that during the festivals the Railways except for running one lakh seventy thousand trains. 7,700 Have operated special trains, get amazed. Now, look at Udhana, an industrial city near Surat – An average of seven to eight thousand passengers travel from the railway station here every day –
On November 4, a crowd of more than forty thousand thronged this small station. If the railway administration had not worked as a team and made proper arrangements, it would have been difficult to even estimate the problems of the passengers. During festivals, the highest traffic across the country is from New Delhi station. In this period only from this station, in a day on passenger demand 64 Special and 19 Unreserved trains were operated.
At a gathering full of foreign guests discussing rail travel during the festive season, a diplomat was surprised to hear that just before Shath Mahaparva this year, 4 On November, approx 3 Millions of people traveled by train to their destinations, and on festive days the railways almost 25 Helped crores of pilgrims to travel. More people than the entire population of Pakistan traveled in your trains in just a few days, said the concerned diplomat, with a light smile.!
Indian Railways realizes that our brothers and sisters working in a large number of industrial centers from the eastern parts of the country have an important role to play in building the country. From Jammu's Atal Tunnel to Mumbai's C–Up to the link, and Bengaluru's I–From tea institutes to Delhi's under-construction buildings, people have built their own hands in the clay of the East.
Be it the armed forces or border security forces of the country, the laborers growing grains in the fields of Punjab, the employees in government offices and private institutions, the elderly, or the students studying in the prestigious educational institutions of the country, all these are in their own way shaping the India of today and the coming tomorrow. is
Indian Railways also equipped with modern technology and facilities Vande Bharat, Amrit India, Namo has embarked on a new and world-class journey with continuous expansion of trains like India and conversion of more than a thousand railway stations across the country into Amrit stations. A changing picture of a changing India is now beginning to emerge in the form of Indian Railways.
