How did Laloo prasad yadav manage to turn around the indian railways which was on the brink of financial ruin?

Question

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Answer 1

Lalu was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Chhapra and Madhepura seats of Bihar.
He was made the railway minister in the UPA Government. Later, he gave up the Madhepura seat. Soon after becoming the railway minister, Lalu banned plastic cups used for serving tea at railway stations and announced that they will be replaced by kulhads (earthen cups). He said that this will generate more rural employment. Later, he also said that he had plans to introduce buttermilk and khadi for the railway passengers. The logic given was once again that of more rural employment.
In June 2004, Laloo announced that he would travel by railway to get a first-hand experience of the problems faced by the Indian public; he once inspected the Patna railway station at midnight, although there were no reports of him travelling by trains. On August 10, 2004 Lalu undertook a surprise check at Rail Bhavan in New Delhi. He deducted the salaries of about 500 latecomer employees and sent them back. On August 16, 2004, Lalu carried out a surprise check on a goods train coming from Mumbai at Danapur station. He found that weights of consignments were under-assessed, leading to loss of revenue for Railways. He claimed that railway officials, transporters and consignees were part of a racket.A few top BJP leaders, associated with a company called Samrudha Overseas Pvt Ltd, were allegedly involved in the racket.
During Lalu's tenure as the railway minister, many rail mishaps and crimes took place(but a lesser amount than during any other ministers tenure). To check the crimes, he planned to introduce joint patrolling by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP).
On July 7, 2004, Lalu presented his first railway budget, which was boycotted by NDA. Lalu didn't increase fares.He offered free second class travel for central governmental job-seeking travelers.He announced launch of 55 new trains, only 23 of which have been shared jointly by Bihar and Tamil Nadu. Uttar Pradesh was proposed to be given 20 additional trains, 10 of the existing trains will be extended and frequences of four will be increased during 2006-07.In the case of Maharashtra 15 new trains, 11 extended trains and increase in frequencies of four trains was announced.For Tamil Nadu,10 new trains, seven extension of trains and increase in frequency of two trains.For Andhra Pradesh 13 new trains, extension to 11 trains and frequencies of one train would be increased.His trains including four Garib Raths connecting U P and Bihar with the South (chennai), Mumbai, Delhi and Amritsar is being seen as an attempt to reach out to the migrant workers from these areas.Lalu introduced three Garib Nawaz trains from three destinations of the state - Kishenganj, Yeshwantpur and Ranchi (now in Jharkhand) to Ajmer for pilgrimage at the Mazar of Khwaja Garib Nawaz.He introduced Garib Rath from the labour intensive areas of Bihar (Patna) and eastern part of the India to Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Amritsar for poor sections of the people, who in large numbers travel to these areas in search of livelihood Lalu also announced two new train for Rae Bareli, home constituency of UPA Chairperson and party chief Sonia Gandhi. He said that he would revoke the contract of A H Wheeler & Co, which runs newspaper stands on most Indian railway stations, because they were enjoying monopoly ever since English (British) left India and would invite open tender.
In July 2004, Lalu lobbied the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to declare a Rs. 3225 crore aid package for Bihar.
On July 13, 2004, Lalu announced an inquiry into the Godhra incident, in which several Vishva Hindu Parishad members were allegedly burnt alive by Muslims in a compartment of the Sabarmati Express.
On July 24, 2004, Lalu remarked casually that flood provided Bihar's poor people enough fish to eat.
On August 5, 2004 he claimed that L.K.Advani,Leader of the Opposition was an accused in a conspiracy to kill Mohammed Ali Jinnah and described him as an 'international absconder'.
On september 14, 2004 Lalu asked L.K.Advani to come clean on ‘his involvement' in the alleged conspiracy to assassinate the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah.He made public some proofs too.
On September 28, 2004,Lalu alleged Venkaiah Naidu,the then Union Rural Minister, of having sold off 55,000 tonne of wheat in the name of drought relief distribution in AP. "A CBI probe will be initiated to find the truth" he said.
In August, 2005, just before the assembly polls in Bihar, Laloo promised model railway stations, gauge conversion works and employment in Railways. Laloos's list of railway stations to be developed as "model stations" included 7 stations from Bihar and only 2 from the rest of India. The seven stations in Bihar included Madhepura, Darbhanga, Patna, Kishenganj, Motihari, Araria and another station.

Lalu also "found" 80,000 old C and D grade vacancies in the Railways. The vacancies had existed for over half a decade and Nitish Kumar (his bete noire and his predecessor in the Railway Ministry) had also referred them to lure voters during earlier parliamentary elections. However, Nitish Kumar didn't last as Railway Minister for long, as National Democratic Alliance failed to return to power. Apart from this, Lalu cut the general and second class fare by one rupee, and announced the implementation of internet based ticketing and reservations. He also annouced plans for open ticketing and a new scheme on upgradation of lower class passengers to a higher class automatically.
Lalu Prasad Yadav is now credited with engineering the financial turnaround of Indian Railways, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Under him, the Railways booked an unprecedented surplus of 110 billion rupees (2.47 billion dollars)
An impressed Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is studying the Indian Railways turnaround story to make it a case study for its students. As part of his drive to modernise the railways Lalu Prasad Yadav has decided to send nearly 100 top officials abroad for training in latest techniques and sharpen their managerial skills in Management Schools of USA and France.

Answer 2

Tahis is jealiousness of the people there had been very less educated people who had been ministers. He is M.A. LLB and the only seasoned politician who is lacing in that he is not in major party and got his desired position. If dwe see till he is in politics he has not deceived any body where as all the politicians have deceived the nation not only his constituancy but nation even their relatives and friends and family. He was known as iron man when I.K. Gujral's election was countgermanded even winning with huge majority, when he was a member of the delegation to visit to Pakistan he was most regarded politician in India and he was natural leader whereas he was not leader of the delegation. He constitued the enquiry for corruption but the politicians of the country entangled him into that instead of that let the truth come and later on investigate his involvement in that. This is the bad luck of the country that people like Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bhadur Shashstri, Jagvan Ram are not alive, V.P. Singh and Lalu Prasad are being opposed by corrupt persons and not supported by honest persons.

Answer 3

He has got the will power . He gave the strong signal that anybody who is coming late or absent wil be punished and he can loose his government job also .
He concentrated on basic policies in broader sense for the benefit of indian people.
He checked the underwieght/overweight racket and gave message to corrupt railway officials that enough is enough.
He is working for the benefit of lower and middle class passengers and in doing so he is eliminating corruption.
He has added railway profits by placing railway rakes at right places . His revenue comes from logisitics rather than passengers.
Can u imagine that the frt from Delhi to Mumbai is 450/- per ton, rake load (as read in one leading newspaper as ad from railway misnistry) while transporters charge 2000/- to 3000/- per ton.
May be everything is planned by top brass of railway officials but the determination to do it,is his power.
His reforms are great and his vision is for future.
Do u know that he chartered a plane to lift the bogies of a train to run railways in Jammu and Kashmir.
If he becomes the prime minister of India we will see drastic changes for betterment of this country .
His media image is not good and there are many cases of corruption on him but he is so simple that he he is lacking to fight on this track.
he has also decreased the railway fare by Re 1/- uptil 500 or 1000 kms.
His determination is killing.
He has got so many plans and if the govt rules for full tenure we will see major changes in Indian railway history .

Answer 4

He don't run Indian Trains Run him to run around.

Answer 5

not at all managed,he is managing only his finances