Passengers should be equally responsible to maintain good service in Indian Railway as the railway staffs are:
Friends I am giving three instances from my personal experiences regarding ho we always make the above statement wrong.
1.Last year in the month of april me and my family have gone for a weekend trip to murshidabad by 3113 hazarduari exp.we had a reservation in AC Cc which is nearly half empty.A man boarded in our compartment at Kolkata station (with general ticket).Later on when TTE came to check tickets ,he charged him with fine.but...
more... the man refused to give it and replied to the TTe that"our former rail minister laluprasad yadav has said, if any AC comparment or any sleeper comp goes nearly empty then a person bearing general ticket can travel in it, bcos it should not go empty".that man onthat day made his whole journey from kolkata to berhampur court in AC cc with a general ticket.
2.this january we are going from agra cantt to puri by kalinga utkal exp.
as soon as we boarded the S9 compartment ,the situation was horrible.it was half packed with UR ticket holders.it was so much congested near the toilets and vestibule that one cannot move to toilet or other compartment.An unreserved ticket holder was lying on the SU berth near the door with his one foot lying on the fan.as I said him to put down his leg, he said to me"tera baap ka train hai kya, nahi utarunga kya karlega be tu".when we boarded the train we noticed that UR passengers were sleeping on our berth with their dirty shoes on .two men and one women were seating on the opposite side of us(among which one was our seat), as soon as we arrived they picked up berths and lied down(it was only 6p.m..as we asked them do you have reservation ,they said yes.later on we came to know that one men among them had reservation and other two were UR and they got down at GWALIOR jn.
3.when we came from JAIPUR to AGRA cANT in udaipur gwalior exp, we had reservation in D2 coach.As soon as the train arrived in jaipur ,d2 campartment was jam packed with UR ticket holders.however god knows how we boarded the train with one aged lady passenger with us.After getting in we noticed that our seats were already occupied.we requested them to leave our seats as we have reservation, but they refused .we then begged to leave atleast one seat for the aged lady, which was also turned down.on that day we travelled from jaipur to agra cantt standing, irrespective of having reservation.
all are welcome to share their experience.