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Margaret Thatcher began the process to privatise British Rail and it was completed by Prime Minister John Major. We can follow this example.
You are right, generally, but privatisation without competition also worked right in case of electricity companies in Delhi. BSES and Tata Power DDL. Quality of services improved, uptime improved, theft went down.
This entire fiasco is indicative of the fact that the current government in power is deliberately doing whatever it can to further reduce the railways to shamble, so that people would then clamour like OP for privatisation and the crony capitalists can get into it.
Yes, I am willing to pay airline prices for first class in trains, if I can get trains like in Europe. In fact, it's often cheaper to fly than go by train in Europe.
It is time we started holding people accountable for the deaths.
The root cause of every single problem in India is overpopulation. Unless you control the population, you will keep having these tragedies