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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 😑😑

General + Bihar +Festivals = Boom 🔥🔥

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

Made a slightly racist comment, got a lot of likes and now I feel bad😢 sorry to all those who got offended.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

11:35- that person is chilling😂😂

Moral-Lack of population control -Lack of discipline

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.

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.😂🙏

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.

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.

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

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

This is so amazingly made and informative. Loved it Mohak.

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. 😑

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

I had travelled recently in a train to botad sarangpur from ahmedabad after years!! and I was shocked to see the cleanliness in the train and stations, IRCTC is doing good but yes maybe they are facing problems what you shared but you just didn't mention about railways making new tracks for only goods trains so that no goods train is delayed because of passenger trains.. I can clearly see improvement in railways..

In my view you have left out a very important point of railway employee salaries along with their pension liabilities for such high operating ratio. Also the AC compartment ticket prices (if you include tatkal loot as well) cross subsidize for general and sleeper tickets. You were talking about two opposite trade offs that railways being profitable and also having more loss making general coaches. This balance can be achieved if headcount control performed and also some other innovative revenue options like leasing out railway land

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Awesome documentary❤❤❤.

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

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 💀

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.

The condition of trains which come under South Central Railway have improved a lot over the last decade. More clean, less cases of bribery by the ticker collectors, better facilities (like charging ports etc) have created a positive difference. Whenever I travelled in trains which were north-bound, I could find the clear difference b/w the South Central and other zone railways. It has surely got to do more with the commitment of the senior officials and the way people treat the trains.

Since i recide in South india (blr) i have only expired this in long running trains ie. Trains running from north Indian states, like all of them, delhi, kolkata, etc... never was this an issue with trains which start and end within south Indian states.... This is just my experience , if anyone has an explanation, you are welcome.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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😂 .

Please everyone raise this awareness. People deserve better railway conditions

My mumbai-jamshedpur train last may was delated by 16 fkn hours... i felt so pathetic that i want to help this system as a citizen

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.

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

Very nicely explained...Hope we get solution soon.

yes you are right even mai jab chota tha tabbhi aur aaj bhi ticket rate nahi badha new delhi to dildarnagar 445rs ka fair hai aur wo aj tak nahi badha

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.

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.

Bhai itna b yaad rakhna ki railway ka minimum cost or max cost travel ka hai 20-80 paisa per km,or railway me roj 2.75 crore passenger daily travel krte hai or 2 lakh tonne maal daily travel krta hai bina koi major accidents ke dunya ki koi b railway itna sasta or accha operate krke dikhaye tb compare krna

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.

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.

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

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.

Indian railway really needs an update because when I was travelling from Kolkata to Bhusaval the Dorondo train which initially got delayed 3 hours and then the train reached at our destination 15 Hours late because of unnecessary slows and stops on track

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.

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

I had also faced the same problem.... Finally someone actually notices the problem and create a video on it...

Ranking transportation in gujarat, (by my experience) 1. Metro 2. Plane 3. BRTS 4.short distance electric trains (less then 100km type small 4 compartment trains) 5. Private buses 6.government buses 7. Long route trains (especially those trains which are heading towards kutch or rajasthan trains)

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 😅

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.

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

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

6:14 transgender menace💀

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

Thanks Mohak for shedding some light on this major issue.

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

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.

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. .

Saara paisa crony capitalists ko de doge aur election me kharch kardoge to fir railway department ko Dene ke liye paise kaha se aayenge ? Most of the government sectors ka yahi haal hai. Salaries Dene ko paise nahi hai. Kyu nahi hai ? Kyuki saara paisa crony capitalists, politicians aur election campaigns me jata hai. And yes I agree with what is said in this video. Involvement of both government and private players are important in this sector. That's called a mixed economy. Good video 👍

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

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.

This problem doesn’t exist in entire India.. I never seen such over crowding in South India. So these issues happen majorly in UP and Bihar. So its not an Indian problem. Also you gave an example for Mangaluru where regular couch converted to AC. Mangaluru is a place where many upper middle class people or rich people live. Almost everyone can afford the AC travel and this change was necessary there.

"Kudos to Team Soch for creating such an informative video. Please consider making a video on 'What happened to Swachh Bharat?'"

Good video mohak make more videos yaar to make aware people about the situation

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

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.

Moral: Need more railway tracks More general compartments Higher capacity toilets Higher fine and supervision for spreading waste

This guy literally exposes everything what I feel...

The only reason why Indian railway is facing these problem is , OVER POPULATION !!

Govt making more Vande Bharat trains to get votes instead of running more trains for common man is the main reason for this. For trains such as Vande Bharat, ticket prices are too high for majority of Indians. Existing infrastructure should be improved and expanded significantly.

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)

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.

I can smell the train just by looking at the thumbnail....😂

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

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.

Greatly explained video❤

Railway system me garbar hai. 1) jaise reserved coaches me seat full ho jane se ticket nahi milta waise hi unreserved coach me kar dena chahiye. Ki ek specific amount of log hi jayenge. Fir ticket na mile. 2) Police aur TT ko unreserved coaches me rehna chahiye. Wo log bas AC coach me rehte hai. 3) bahut bar unreserved coach me ticket checking nahi hota hai. 4) police rehne se jo zyada gandagi failata hai usko fine maro 5) regular saaf hona chahiye jaise AC couch me hota hai 6) Station ke bahar bhi tickets ka regular checking nahi hota hai 7) Population control karna bahut bahut zyada imp. hai , isse bahut problems generate ho rahe hai

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.

We should file FIR against Indian Railways in supreme court... We have to raise our voices😢

I was once in patna station. We had ticket but when the train arrived a huge huge crowd went inside and a huge crowd was hanging on every entrance. In the end we couldn't enter that train.

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.

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

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.