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Mumtaz Sanghamita speaks on the Railway Budget

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Hon’ble Railway Minister have placed many dreamy proposals regarding passenger services, safety, amenities and modernization of stations establishment of freight corridor, new locomotive factory and so on. He has also expressed concern regarding expenditure without much income or provision of income generation provision.

70% of our Railway passengers belong to low and middle income groups. Railways are the major transport in sub-urban and local trains for poor and middle class. The benefit of passenger as well as railway department. The main thing is to increase the passenger load, betterment of passenger amenities, cleanliness of platform and railway tracks as well as train compartments. Most important about Railway journey is punctuality, less time consuming.

The Distribution of clean hygienic bed roles, safe drinking water facilities, clean toilets are more important. Use of SMS to call for toilet cleaning is impractical. Many local trains running 2 to 3 hours as well as even inter-district trains (local) running 6 to 8 hours are lacking toilet facilities. Proper pantry and cooking facilities have been withdrawn from many long distant trains (ex.- Kanchanjunga Express from Sealdah to Guwahati). Bus junction or even Taluka level stations should be provided with lift or escalator facilities and at least pay-toilets at platform.

Instead of making very many new projects like bullet trains, new locomotive factories, unfinished proposal in these regards to be looked after first. Instead of RCTC stalls selling junk food at platforms, there should be provision of Janata canteen supplying local staple foods.

Many of the Railway hospitals are giving high standard service. If this service can be extended to public on payment basis that can generate some income. If Krishi Mandi can be established by Dept. of Railways, it can generate income from this service. No Provision of Superfast trains in big cities and connecting Smart cities with local places would popularize railways.

Many local trains have no toilet facility. Number of female railway police should be increased. Provision of natural gas or solar power running trains trial at least in sub-urban trains can help to reduce environmental pollution and may be cost effective also.

Mumtaz Sanghamita speaks in Lok Sabha about the prevailing flood situation in the country

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Respected Deputy-Speaker, Sir, I am very much thankful to you for giving me few minutes to speak on this important issue. First of all, I, on my behalf and on behalf of my Party, would like to express my deepest sympathy to our desh basi of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry.

Members have said about the flood situation and the recurrent flood situation in so many places including my State West Bengal. We suffer from it each year. This year, as everybody knows, the flood had affected 12 districts of West Bengal having much of monetary, crop, human and cattle losses. The same thing is happening in other parts of the country also. Now the time has come, as all of us have said, when we have to do something.

We know it very-well that at any time it may come but whenever it comes we should fight against it. Sometimes we succeed fully but sometimes we fail to succeed fully in rescuing everybody. We are still depending on the relief either from the State or from the Centre. But it cannot meet our requirements to the fullest extent possible. We ask for Rs. 6000 crore from the Central Government but we got a meagre amount till date.

Our great hon. leader, Kumari Mamata Banerjee has also tackled the flood situation very tactfully and without much loss. It is my request now, as has been mentioned by my other friends, that we should really think seriously as to how we can tackle the natural calamities. We cannot prevent the natural calamities but we can foresee them. We should involve scientists to find out why such calamities are happening and as to how we can forecast the natural calamities.

I would also request the Central Government to erect flood shelters and also crop shelters during the flood season which are urgently needed. These can be done through the projects of the Central Government. That is my request. The Government should also undertake serious research on these natural calamities. In West Bengal, floods are happening usually due to overflowing of dams and sometimes due to heavy rainfall. So, we should discuss about those things. We should also make a separate Commission or whatever it is to tackle the flood situation in the country.

Thank you.