Who is the best railway minister of India ?

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Girl Coconutty

Lalu Prasad, current Railway Minister, Central Government, India is credited with doing what was thought impossible. As the world's largest employer. Indian Railways was heading towards bankruptcy facing steep losses and on the verge of privatisation, until LP came on the scene. A man with little formal schooling but a genius without a doubt, turned around a sinking ship --180 degrees-- into a successful, profitable enterprise with profits in crores. He achieved this distinction without creating job losses , or increasing fares, or adding surcharges on the traveller, and without burdening the general taxapayer and public. Thus this is a singular achievement by a genial man whose vision and grasp of a sprawling enterprise was far above normal.

The IIMA, Wharton school, Harvard school of Business have studied this extra-ordinary phenomenon to understand the man behind this modern economic miracle. LP and Indian Railways is now a case study in mangaement studies in top schools.

vakayil k

Lalu Prasad Yadav, who turned Railways into a profitable organisation.

uscanexam

I would tell my choice.

Late Madhav Rao Scindhia.

He was one of the best Railway minister (this is my opinion) who introduced disposable system in trains (like disposable glasses, alumnium foil, cooked food etc..) Even computerization was introduced during his term.

paresh g

Lalu Prasad

Amit T

Lalu Prasad Yadav

oneal34

lalu prasad.

CILOVEU

What a Useless question:

The minister who has got the railways out of-the-red is the best minister ... And he is Lalu Prasad.

Ronnie @ BinBrain.Com

Lalu Prasad

Prasad was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Chhapra and Madhepura seats of Bihar. He was named as the railway minister in the UPA Government. Later, he gave up the Madhepura seat.

He made the following controversial achievements during his ongoing stint as the Union Railway Minister:

* He banned plastic cups to serve tea at railway stations and ordered that they be replaced by kulhads (earthen cups). He claimed that the measure would generate more employment in rural areas. Later, he also said that he had plans to introduce buttermilk and khadi.

* In June 2004, he announced that he would get on the railway himself to inspect its problems and went on to board the Patna railway station at midnight.
When Yadav took over, the Indian Railways was a loss-making organization. The Rakesh Mohan Committee (headed by Rakesh Mohan, secretary, department of economic affairs) had termed it a 'white elephant' and predicted it would hit Rs 61,000 crore (US$15.4 billion) in bankruptcy by 2015. The only solution seemed to be privatization.

Defying all these predictions, the Railways booked a surplus of Rs 110 billion (U$2.47 billion). Lalu Prasad Yadav is now credited with engineering the financial turnaround of Indian Railways, that was on the verge of bankruptcy before his appointment to the office. He left passenger fares untouched and found several other profitable sources of revenue for the Railways. He also improved on his first year's performance by stating a profit of 14,000 crores with decreased freight and unchanged passenger fares in 2006. Then, in the 2007 budget, he increased the profit level to 20,000 crores with the introduction of cushion seats in all unreserved compartments.

He announced this turnaround during his Budget-Speech-06-07 in these words:
â€œ Sir, I take pride in informing this House that in the first nine months of the year 2005-06, the Railwaysâ€™ output has been record breaking. The growth in freight loading is 10% and in freight revenues it is over 18%. Based on the trends up to now, the freight loading target is being increased from 635 mt to 668 mt and the goods revenues target from Rs. 33,480 cr to Rs. 36,490 cr. Thus, Railways would achieve incremental freight loading of 111 mt in two years itself, which will be 133% higher as compared to the incremental loading of 83 mt of entire Ninth Five Year Plan period. Tenth Plan targets of 624 mt loading and 396 billion tonne kilometers have been surpassed one year in advance. Sir, I not only hope but firmly believe that we would surpass the Tenth Five Year Plan's incremental target of 63 billion tkm for freight business by over 200%. ). â€

Well-known schools of management were interested in his techniques in engineering the turnaround. He addressed over a hundred students from Harvard, Wharton and others in Hindi. He has received invitations from 8 Ivy League schools.

The turnaround of the Indian Railways is now being studied by the students of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Prof G. Raghuram, a faculty member, IIM-A, has already conducted a detailed study on the Railways turnaround.

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laloo prasad yadav

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Remo B

none of them................its rabri devi.........

Sham

Lalu Prasad Yadav......
better than all the rest........
I am never a fan of Lalu, but look the way he has truned things around...........
If he keeps working this way, he can become Prime Minister of the country too......