TWEETS AND RETWEETS OF NOVEMBER
27 TWITTER POSTS BY SURESH PRABHU:
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Sapthagiri M @SapthagiriM Nov 27
Neatness that I hardly saw before
in railways stations.. Kacheguda right now..
@SCRailwayIndia @sureshpprabhu
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Ministry of Railways
@RailMinIndia Nov 27
NDLS- HWH is part of most
congested section, long awaited capacity enhancement work is priority of MR
@sureshpprabhu
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Arvind Agarwal
@arvind_agarwal Nov 27
Railways offers subsidised
pilgrimage packages.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/railways-offers-subsidised-pilgrimage-packages/story-hbOWgKo7vXLN3YEiPh05jK.html
…
@sureshpprabhu @RailMinIndia
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Gowtham @gowthaam Nov 27
Travelling in train after a year
in 3rd AC.can see visible difference in cleanliness in coach &
beds.Thnx @sureshpprabhu ji & team
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
PRASANTA KUMAR JENA
@jena_prasanta Nov 27
@RailMinIndia @sureshpprabhu Fact is bigger the size more difficult to
transform. Rly has set a foot in long
ambitious transformation path
Suresh Prabhu @sureshpprabhu Nov 27
Debate in LS @narendramodi raises
it to greater height.Lets worship constitution as holy book to be followed in
spirit by all to progress
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Parag sharma
@paragjournalist Nov 27 View
translation
सच
में @sureshpprabhu sir आपने जैसा
कहा वैसा कर
रहे हैं We r on track sir, हम
दुनिया को दिखाएंगे,
भारत क्या है..
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
DRM Bilaspur @DRMBilaspur Nov 27
30% growth witnessed in the
number of passengers at Akaltara Railway Station during fortress check.
Suresh Prabhu
@sureshpprabhu Nov 27
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
@GMSouthernrailway
Very important to take care of
public health post flooding.IR working on it
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
SouthCentralRailway
@SCRailwayIndia Nov 27
@RailMinIndia @sureshpprabhu
More than 60% of the targeted
#RainwaterHarvesting pits constructed on SCR
#savewater
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Ministry of Railways
@RailMinIndia Nov 27
Morgan Stanley report on Indian
Railways : The Next India - The Return of the Transportation Behemoth
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
Raja @Raja_Sw Nov 27
Still a lot that can be improved
in IR. Long road still ahead. But things seem to be improving. @sureshpprabhu
@RailMinIndia @drmsbc @GMSWR
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
vadakkus @vadakkus Nov 27
vadakkus Retweeted CPRO Central
Railway
The biggest e-commerce entity in
India by far, ever since its inception.
Suresh Prabhu Retweeted
SouthCentralRailway
@SCRailwayIndia Nov 27
SouthCentralRailway Retweeted
General Manager SCR
@RailMinIndia @sureshpprabhu
#EnergyConservation
#energyefficiency #GoGreen #COP21 #GreenEnergy
Now, Suresh Prabhu, the Railway
Minister of India, is one politician who looks 'intensely' busy on Twitter - as
his Twitter feed for this day (or any other day) suggests.
And these are just some of a
barrage of Tweets on his Twitter page - tweeted (and retweeted) by Mr. Suresh
Prabhu on November 27.
And he does so daily.
And the issues that he looks
concerned about sound holistic - clean trains and platforms, other cleanliness
measures in different railway services, reforms in Indian Railways, the efforts
for a 'turnaround' story, capacity enhancements, improvement in operational
statistics, energy conservation, social obligations like 'rain water
harvesting' and so on - and the concern of passengers' well-being - but there
is a catch.
See this:
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu - Mr. Prabhu, no
response yet. 12581 Delhi time is 12.20 pm. Reached thr at 2.15 pm. N it
happens daily wid many trains.
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu - 6th tweet 2day -
no response from u who is very active on Twitter. 12581 Delhi time -12.20 pm.
1.30 pm n it is still GZB
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu - 5th tweet 2day -
12581 almost not running - well behind it's Delhi time of 12.20 pm - the IR
shame continues
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu - 5th tweet today
- already delayed 12581 is now crawling post Aligarh - looks more misery ahead
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu -my 3rd tweet 2 u
2day-ppl say n u also retweet-but y sum trains get delayd daily-like this
12581-a routine-still no respite
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu People say n you
also retweet -but y some trains get delayed daily-like this 12581-a daily routine-today,
it's already 3 hrs!
Santosh Chaubey
@SantoshChaubeyy Nov 27
@sureshpprabhu People say, you
also retweet - but y some trains get delayed daily-like this 12581-a daily
routine-today, it's already 3 hrs!
These eight tweets were my
experimental call to check the 'social sensitivity of social media alertness'
of our Railway Minister - who by any possible means - looks very Twitter savvy
- in using social media as an effective tool
of his governance.
But as expected, he did not
respond to even a single one - because they were pointing to a well known,
universal shame of Indian Railways that all Indian Railways (IR) officials
conveniently and habitually deny/ignore/pass - that almost of the trains in
India don't run on time - that travelling by many trains are considered an
absolute wastage of time as they run delayed by hours - day after day - just
name them and one can count many of them - in every part of the country the
Indian Railways is operating in - and that includes almost the whole of the
country. There are trains that are cursed to get delayed regularly - the
'ignorable gems' in eyes of IR's apathetic officers.
Here, in my case, I started my
train journey at 10:30 PM on November 26 night. Though it is a superfast train
(Number - 12581), people warned me of its bad reputation of running late almost
daily. But I thought to give it a try, as I wanted to reignite the romance of a
train journey after a long time and prompted by 'prompt tweets' of Suresh
Prabhu, I thought I should take a chance.
But came November 27 morning, and
my hopes had some serious beating. When I woke up, I found the train was behind
its schedule while at Kanpur and was running late by some 2.30 hours.
Well, I had an important meeting
scheduled in the evening and I started feeling sort of unease. But then, I also
knew I could not do anything. Various precedents of my yore have told me that
one should never trust the trains run by Indian Railways, especially in crisis
hours. 99 per cent chances they will fail you. After all, you can gauge
sentiments on this line by the fact that a train running one or two hours late
is considered 'on time' by the standards of Indian Railways.
While my unease was growing, I
thought to use it to 'gauge' the sensitivity of Mr. Railway Minister. Starting
from around 7 AM, I tweeted tagging Mr. Prabhu around 8 times, expecting some
response from him.
But it did not have to come and
it didn't come. Either Mr. Prabhu didn't see any of my tweets, something that
is hard to believe going by the kinds he retweets daily, or he conveniently
ignored them.
And that clears one thing - the
fact that is known widely - that our politicians don't see or don’t like to see
the 'uncomfortable facts'.
There is nothing wrong in what
Mr. Prabhu does with his Twitter page. Even if selectively, he is active there.
No one can expect he can do some miracle or can turnaround the massive public
organization with massive losses run by the Indian government in such a short
time with most of its senior Railway officials turning a blind eye to what
should be treated as criminal offences in a civilized society.
We know a 'totally' politicised
Indian Railways cannot accommodate its vast network of trains to manage
'running efficiency and timeliness' with the poor infrastructure it has right
now but just to give indications of a positive symbolism, Mr. Prabhu could have
responded to my tweets (and should respond even to negative or critical
tweets).
What do you say Mr. Prabhu
(@sureshpprabhu)?
Featured Image Courtesy: Collage
prepared from screenshots of IR’s website, Mr. Suresh Prabhu’s Twitter page and
my tweets
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
