Is it time to consider privatising the Indian Railways?

I dont find any basis for this argument. what is the wrong with Indian Railway? Still it is not making any loss and doing well. So why should we question for the privatisation of railways. It is totally baseless.

AS FAR AS TRAVEL INDUSTRY IS CONCERNED,PRIVATE OPERATORS OF AIRLINES OR BUS SERVICES,TAXI OPERATORS HAVE THEIR OWN SETS OF PROBLEMS.THEY ARE NOT 100% PERFECT.THINK OF THE MASSIVE SIZE OF RAILWAY OPERATIONS.ARE  THERE  COMPETENT PRIVATE PLAYERS TO SUCCESSFULLY RUN RAILWAYS THOUGH NOT NATIONALLY BUT ON REGIONAL LEVELS?

I am in total agreement with Sudip on the subject. Indian Railways employs 1.6 million people but the network which are in excess of 70000 km the Railway should remain with Government but the net work spread accross 3.33 lack sq km is really huge hence part of the service should be let out to private player in order to have better security and sefty of passengers.

I am not agree for privatization of Indian Railway. I can't understand why people are thinking for privatization.. ? Why we don't think to solve problem, we always complaining every thing.. If the govt. sector in not working properly or they have any problem's then we need to support them.. Some of govt. sector like telecommunication [BSNL ] is in loss and they have some problems after privatization like network consumption, no service, connection errors etc.

Before making the Indian Railways Privatisation, Goverment should take in to the account of previous Organisations' statistics how far they achieved the norms behind it. Alreay Station Cleaning and Catering have been adopted by way of privatisation.

Due to lack of new appointments and filling of back logs Indian Post and Telegraphs has been suffering much more and almost neglected due to entry of private courriers and telcom companies. Main purpose of the organisation has been scrapped and selling NJ stamps and service  duplicating to other Government Departments like Pass Port offices(recently adding).

Naturally, Government should take inmates (raise job Opportunities)to meet the normal services rendering, to know its full gape of service requirement.

Simply washing hands and counting the income doesnot give any purposeful services to the common man.

I do not think that the country is yet ready to hand over entire reailaway to private hands. Whatever said and done, private companies will not invest further in expanding railway in rural areas or care to provide service in non-profit routes.

What can be done, is to bring in Privte particpation in areas where possible. A typical area is the security systems, like mentioned in my posting " A feasible technology based idea for security of railways". New rails, expansions, replacements, doublings and construction of buildings for stations and other infrastructure etc could be got done faster, if given out to private companies.