I think this is good for passenger safety, as proper testing would be done before. But the bad thing is this should have been planned earlier, and people should have been informed in advance. They should atleast start work on the next section (say fatehbad-mhow), while they are testing this section. Otherwise this will slowdown the Ratlam-Akola guage conversion project.

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In addition to fare hikes, railways should make some strategies to improve revenue. Simple things like optimizing train timings, in many trains occupancy is less due to bad time table, which cause loss of revenue to rail. Network should be increased at a faster pace, today railways do not reach lot of places, or reach with long routes, or requires people to hop on multiple trains, due to which large customer base belongs to buses. Also there are many routes where the demand is high, but trains are less, they should increase frequency/coaches/new trains on such routes. One more way railways can earn is by increasing 3A coaches, nowdays there is lot of demand for 3A, but when people dont get confirm ticket on these, they opt for SL.

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one more thing to add, gauge conversions should be completed asap

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