Our nation has grown/ developed a lot during 7 decades of independence, but majority of benefits have been reaped by better managed private players in the field of Road and Air modes of transport. IR was happy with marginal increment in its traffic and revenue and road sector grew leap and bounds and now traffic in air sector is also growing fast.
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The better managed road and air sectors are winners and worse managed IR a loser, in spite of it being highly cost effective. So the management was so bad that...
more... inherent advantages of rail transport were more than wiped off by the extreme inefficiency of IR.
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It is a race bro, one who runs faster wins. You can say the winner ran fast, or the loser ran slow, the result is same!