• We have thrown out our artist. We narrow mined "Frogs" citizens of a "well" state which was once a prosperous sate of the indian su continent. Today we are led by two faced political liars, thugs and sycophants. When wil be able to get rid of all these useless baggage?? When we be able to go forward, whith all these one eyed, one track minds, whom we elected and now are looting the nation and spoiling our name with all other nations in the world. Do I hear a who is it?? Posted by GBR, Retired at Shipping | 06 Mar, 2010

• I can't understand where is the Rail Budget done actually? What is done is nothing but a Election Manifesto for West Bengal election 2011 for her Chief Ministership.Since there is no law against the cheating the people by the politicians from their endless promises, they give all useless advertisement at the cost of public money. Posted by pritis majumdar | 04 Mar, 2010

• What we must understand is that most of the budget provisions will never take off.The budgets are nothing but election manifestos of politicians/political parties keeping in mind the country men as vote bank particularly rural/uneducated class. After the exit of these politicians from power, the on going projects will crumble due to the changed priorities by new incumbents in power Posted by JAYA PRAKASH Srinivasa Murthy, Assistant General Manager at Bharat Earth Movers Ltd | 04 Mar, 2010

• We are habituated with this type of since independence. When a minister comes from a state, he / she tries to become the god of that state. It may be U.P. / Bihar / Tamilnadu / Kerala / Maharashtra or whatever. Mamata is not the exception. After a long period of time, West Bengal has received the majority of the railway projects. Rest of India should appreciate Ms.Mamata, instead of criticising her. Posted by Debasish Dasgupta, Senior Manager (Finance) at Simplex Infrastructures Limited | 04 Mar, 2010

• Narrow adaucious mentality of above the law/above the state politicians with aam admi kept only for vote bank is driving the country to disintegration/banktrupcy. Posted by JAYA PRAKASH Srinivasa Murthy, Assistant General Manager at Bharat Earth Movers Ltd | 03 Mar, 2010

• State above nation ? & politians are above nation. Who ever gets the position as cabinet minister, they think that they are owner of that ministry.The budget or decision is taken keeping some hidden interest for themselves.They call Aam Admi just for the sake of saying, in fact Aam admi is squeezed from all the directions & this squeezing is just he wau we squeeze Mango (Aam) & hence they treat us like this. Secondly in our country the memories are volatile, people have made as habit of forgetting & do not ask any question. Politics is as business every one who gets elected he will recover n times what what he/she spent.They are trying to test tolerance limit of middle class.After 2 days Main Budget was published??? nothing to ...See More take care of price hike of food items.God only can save us hope for that. Posted by Chandraprakash Deshpande, General Manager - Business Development at Pushkaraj Engineering Enterprises Private Limited | 01 Mar, 2010

• I think this year railway budget is nothing but to please the people of west bengal by keeping state Essambly Election 2011 in mind.
  
  I really do not know what the TMC chief is thinking (I address her as TMC chief rather Hon. railway Minister as because she is more interested to look forward for the Chief Minister post rather the current Railway Ministership).
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  This is also surprising that TMC is also not thinking about the future of these project because in 2011 if Mamta Banerjee become the West Bengal Chief Minister then the new Railway Minister will continue all these project or he/she will close down the projects sanctioned by Mamta Banerjee.
  
  That's why if we (the west Bengal people) think that Mamta Banerjee is really thinking for west Bengal Rail Pariseva then we should not give mejority to TMC in 2011, so that the assignments the Inidan Railways are taking this year and next year budget can be full filled. Posted by Dipankar Das, Project Director at UshaComm India Ltd. | 01 Mar, 2010

• Hi Rahul,
  The placement of the project doesn't matter as long as the fructis of the projects are enjoyed by all. Trust that Minister will take care in utlilising the resources to serve the nation and not the state. Posted by C P Saraf, Dy Mgr +919830936363 at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited | 01 Mar, 2010

• Your contention seems to be logical. But, so far as I could understand the Indian politics, the individual interest is above the interest of the Nation. Till today, the Indian politicians are working only keeping in their mind the interest of their party as well as individual interest. Ms Mamata Banerjee has simply followed the path paved by her predecessors. Moreover, since you are working in Metro Railways, which is a part of Indian Railways, you can well understand that the projects she has announced will never take place in reality, as the Indian Railways does'nt have that much of money. So it is better to forget about and forgive the unrealistic Railway Budget. Posted by Aparesh Goswami, Personal Assistant at West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission | 01 Mar, 2010

• as a rly. minister of union govt . of india this act OF ms. mamta not only has to be decried but a contempt must be filed for such a sectarian approach .had all P. M.\'S FROM U. P. TOOK A SIMILAR APPROACH IMAGINE WHERE OUR NATION WOULD HAVE BEEN .THIS IS NOT CARING FOR REGIONAL ASPIRATIONS INSTEAD IT S SOWING THE SEEDS OF FRAGMENTATION AND A MILLION DIVIDES ,MUCH MORE THAN WHAT ANY INVADER COULD ACCOMPLISH . Posted by chandra pathak, secretary at upmsra | 28 Feb, 2010

• Hi Rahul
  
  Gone are the days when Parliamentarians were qualfied enough to look after the nation's interest. The opposition leaders were also equally responsible. So the nation's interest was the first priority for all of them. But today what is happening in our homeland? Nepotism, corruption, ugly behaviour, lack of patient hearing, quality administration and above all misuse of power. It is no denying the fact that the fruits of her earlier budget during the NDA regime and even that of the last year are yet to be seen. Many of her projects got token sanctions and most of the unrolling stones now gather moss. Yet then she is at it again, showing generousity towards her own state. This is not for her love towards the ...See More state, it is for her own gains. Had it been so, she could have allowed the Tatas to roll on the Nano Factory in West Bengal. I have very serious doubts about her projects. Most of these projects will be a failure. But we the people of India tend to forget the past and go by the gimmicks of life. Even the media has shown a very ugly face by projecting this kind of cheap populism methods adopted by her.
  
  It is high time that the PMO should have a final say in equal distribution of projects all over the country based on requirements. Posted by S Chakraborty, director at dss consultancy and management services pvt ltd | 28 Feb, 2010

• There is no denying the fact that eastern states lag very much as far as infrastructure development is concerned.So I see nothing seriously amiss if the minister who happens to be from WB,is partial in alloting proportionately more projects to WB,as compared to other eastern states.Railway ministers in the past too have been following this tradition.There is general deficiency of infrastructure development for the country as a whole.For reasons of political expediency in our coalition politics,if one part of the country receives more attention,I don't think we should grudge. Posted by Sahib Bijlani, Retired Chief ADMN. Officer & Addl. General Manager at Indian Railways | 28 Feb, 2010

• These politicians themselves know that most of these so called goodies will never materialise as in the earlier budgets.However they give these promises to win vote bank in their states by fooling their valuable voters for personal/parties power gains.Very sad indeed.Vote bank politics are ruing the country and its people.
  jaya prakash S Posted by JAYA PRAKASH Srinivasa Murthy, Assistant General Manager at Bharat Earth Movers Ltd | 28 Feb, 2010

• Minister of Railway is attached to Parliament for more than 3 terms and she was minister twice earlier, but ever found her taking part in any all India issues except direct spech against one single political party.
  Can she tell the public about her political agenda for remaining period of service as a MP? After having declared erroneous qualification earlier, EC still approves her nomination. She is more a Rly Minister of West Bengalconsidering her involvements and stay away from office- any doubt? Posted by Ashok Ghosh | 28 Feb, 2010

• It quite happens.Previously we found the ministers are partial to their own states only the same was repeated this time also. Gani Khan to Lalu and even to Mamata. But now it is to see what happens next. Will all the projects be projected for completion with efficiency or not. Now we see the Matribhumi local are given for Ladies but without RPF and mens are travelling without any objections. These are the things which are to be given importance. Progress does not means process only. Posted by Ambarnath Bhattacharya, Editor at Takmaa | 28 Feb, 2010

• POLITICS IS THOUGHT TO BE THE LAST GAME OF SCOUNDRELS .THEIR OWN VESTED INTERESTS RULE THE ROOST ,EVEN IF IT IS AT THE COST OF NATIONS DISINTEGRATION. Posted by chandra pathak, secretary at upmsra | 28 Feb, 2010

• This situation or incident is not new to us. We should have practised well enough to imbibe the venom with ease. The venom of politics on our society. There is no trendsetter around. Everytime there is a new face comes into the stage of politics... There are plenty of promises & we the funny side of this is we most ofte believe them too. But when they come to power,its their surrounding oppurtunistics who makes that person a puppet. They have vested so much effort & now its their turn to fetch the most of it. So if somebody by God's grace wants to do something, they are compelled to follow their few followers. We are the victims of this situation & this is constant. These parties are so dedicated & loyal to us that they never ...See More behave biased (they never spare anyone).For them State is Bidhansabha & India is Loksabha. Everything starts from these two buildings only.
  If a politician has aquired a space at Bidhan Sabha,he will eye for next Loksabha poll & act accordingly & when he gets into Loksabha (MP)he eyes the next Bidhansabha Poll of his/her particular state & act towards it. Atleast they have some agenda which they fulfill religiously & we discuss & write blogg to encourage them ::::) Posted by Diganta Banerjee, Asst. Manager - Sales & Marketing at Fox Solutions | 27 Feb, 2010

• See, now a days politics is a full time profession not the service to the nation, national development or welfare of its citizen is not at all preference for any politician / political parties, for them their family, then home ..........party for the benefits of their seat as MP and an Important Portfolio, however some growth is seen.
  I pray GOD to give them some sense to do something for their even hometown, ultimately whole nation will be benifitted with something, provided every ministed do sincerely in their Constituency. Posted by Ved Prakash, Sr. General Manager at Balrampur Chini Mills Limited | 27 Feb, 2010

• Dear Mr.Rahul Parkhi
  
  In my earlier posting few typo error has crept in. Please read "Right now lot of investment is happening in the eastern part of India to exploit the rich mineral reserves available there." Regret the inconvenience caused due to typo error. Posted by Sudhansu Nayak, AGM-Logistics at Vedanta Resources plc | 27 Feb, 2010

• Dear Mr.Rahul Parkhi
  
  When discuss about the lion's share given to a state we are hitting at the basics. We are questioning the authority of the Mininster we have elected. Now we feel that our own Minister has betrayed our trust and faith in her capability to do justice to the whole nation. Definitely the nation should always be above any state. In order to rectify the imbalances created in the past (due to various reasons) some day some one has to take a hard decision which may not appease every one but provides a road map for bringing in the desired correction. Provision of safeguards as pointed out by you should be provided in the form of empowerment of people to take decision in their area of influence and they ...See More should be held accountable for the outcome of their decision. The only precautions our elected leaders should take is to decide from brain and not from heart. It should be a business decision. Right not lot of investment is happening in the eastern part of India to exploit the reach mineral reservs available there. When so much industrialization is happening in the eastern region we have to match the development of infrastructure. Ms. Mamata Banerjee's decision to set up some railway related industries in Bengal may not be totally wrong as requisite raw material is available in and around that area. Being professionals our discussion should be constructive and yield some positive result. When we have elected so many representatives and given the reign of our country on their hands we should first trust them to lead the nation in the right path.
  
  Sudhansu Sekhar Nayak Posted by Sudhansu Nayak, AGM-Logistics at Vedanta Resources plc | 27 Feb, 2010

• Nation above te state always! But it is not true for our politicians. Mamata di ( as popularly know in WB) is not out of this class of politicians. Lalu too was in the centre but ruling and wooing voters in Bihar, went even to top management institutions to deliver managementlessons. So what is the harm if Mamata is following her predecessor to eye forthcoming elections in WB. So what if she desperately aspires to be the CM of WB? So what if she uses Railway ministry to her political vantage? So what if she takes it for a ride to WB? What safeguard do you actually talk about? The ones which may be there in the govt files to lick the dust in closed cupboards? This safeguard has to come in our conscience as voters first. Till then ...See More we have no right to talk about these issues. Posted by Urmi Gupta, Chief Consultant at MYNDPOWER TRAINING CONSULTANTS | 27 Feb, 2010

• Most of the railway ministers do favour for their home states ignoring some important states by priority through different factors. Connectivity by rail plays an important role in development sector. First of all one has to identify the states which have to be given priority and this has to be conveyed to the Railway minister before he/she prepares the budget. Verify whether budget is in accordance with the priorities defined before or not. Posted by Modekurti Durga Prasad, Associate Professor at Institute of Rural Management, Anand | 27 Feb, 2010

• Nothing better can be expected from the leaders who are one amongst us and represent our national culture and thinking. It clearly reflects our national thinking of grabbing and hoarding for self and near & dear.We have been a poor nation and will always remain poor because of this culture & up- bringing.There can be no safeguards instituted because we are now addicted to abusing the democratic setup by behaving like selfish ,immature & irresponsible adults whatever our age when it comes to taking decisions in national interest. Posted by Ajit Shenoy, Senior Manager - Procurement & Estimation at Uhde India Private Limited | 27 Feb, 2010

• No state is above the nation. Infact nothing and noone is above the nation . If the union minsters continue to behave like the local politians and keep thinking about their local states , than it is certain that we would see more nad more separatist movements from the states as they will feel neglected by the central goverments again and agian. Development projects are not for any individual state or area. These projects are for the benefits of all the nation. Our north-eastern states feels neglected because their MPs never got the important portfolio. Posted by Vishwa Nath Sharma, Sales Associate at Wal-Mart Inc. | 27 Feb, 2010

• Nation has always been and still is above the Nation. Some states do not probably remember the sacrofices made by West Bengal dring the period 1950-1970 in particular. Had West Bengal insisted on State being above the Nation, many of the economically advanced states would not have reached their current position. West Bengal supplied coal cheap to all other states to help their industrialisation. The same was true of both West Bengal and Bihar in regard to Steel. Much of the resources generated in West Bengal were transferred to other states in the interest of balance industrial development even at the cost of not investing in West Bengal to maintain its modernisation. Now West Bengal is among the poorest state in India. It is ...See More now the turn of Maharashtra, Gujarar, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to pay back to West Bengal. But this is not really a demand, it is for other advanced states to wonder whether they need to do anything for West Bwengal and Bihar in the interest of the Nation.
  This Mamata- Railway Budget is not transferring really any resources from other States to West Bengal. The percentage share allocation of investments in projects in West Bengal in terms of investment by Railways over the last 10 years including the year 2019-11 would be far below the West Bengal's share in Indian population below the poverty line or percentage share of West Bengal in total Indian population. If you take the entir post independent period, West Bengal share in Railway investment is further lower.
  The allegation agains Mamata is a hoax perpetuated by certain section of the Press. There has not been any previous Railway Minister who has shown knowledge about how to most rationally and fairly allocate Railways investments and Railways capacity for services in different parts of the country. Even when Mamta goes away from Railway Ministry, it would be difficult for future Railway minsters to depart from the rational and fair distribution principles adopted by Mamta.
  Some vested interests have difficulty in accepting Mamta as a Minister or even as a politician because she is among the very rare honest persons among politicians with intelligwence of enough to deal with people who try to win by shouting. Last year and this year during the Railway Bidget presentation, we have seen how the sounds of hoesty-empty vessels were effectively puctured by Mamta's retorts ans sarcasm. She is the only woman in India who can effectively block the efforts of manipulative and corrupt drum-beating musclemen politicians. Men may be angry with their defeat at the hands of a woman: but it would be foolish to ignore the rise of honest, hardworking and sincere womanpower to clean up the Indian politics. Posted by Basudeb Sen, Independent Director at South Asian Petrochem Ltd | 27 Feb, 2010

• I don't agree that sates are beyon nation. I strongly belive if we have to grow as nation we should stop this and if this is stopped no one will migrate from one state to other and there will not be any interstate fight as well. Posted by Sunita Nair, Branch Manager Ahmedabad at AFL Dachser Private Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• Yes it is true that MS Mamta Baherjee has put state before country may be she has forgot that she is Railway Minister of whole India.
  There Should be a law made regarding Distribution of whole Country Budget according to needs of whole country and strict actions must be taken against such distribution which uses country money against political benefits like Ms Banerjee has done keeping in mind of the Elections Coming nearby in West Bengal. Posted by Murari Sharma, management Trainee at vodafone essar spacetel ltd. | 26 Feb, 2010

• Perhaps you mean 14 out of 24 major railway projects are for W B i.e. Mamata Banerjee's home state. Yes, I agree that this is very selfish on her part. But who doesn't do this? In your own position, if something can be done by you, would you not do for your own first - may it be somebody or otherwise? Moreover, in Mamata's case, her only obsession is welfare of her state. In her opinion, CPI(M) is spoiling the state and she wants to outperform them at the ensuing hustings. And she would do anything to achieve her goal come what may. That is exactly what she is doing now because she is capable of doing this blatantly. And finally, if you retrospect, you will find that even though these ministers did for their own states during ...See More their tenure, ultimately the people of the respective states did benefit and they are part of India - our own brothren. So, why crib? Posted by Kottakki Nehru Patnaik, Divisional Railway Manager(Mechanical)- Retired at Indian Railways | 26 Feb, 2010

• Reply to Mr.Jena: Bengal needs a state leader and didi is trying for that. she knows what she is doing. how many people know that? National Leader-who? when Chidu was fighting for others in mumbai against MNS I thought he would also fight for 'other beggars'as well who hv migrated to delhi to pursue their 'profession', unfortunately, sheila has asked other states to take back their beggars in view of upcoming commonwealth games. Touch your heart and ask yourself why it is burning when a state leader is showing some partially to her own state. You would be silenced if she does more for your state,right? rise above this pettiness, nd say let India progress, state by state- which makes our nation. Talking work culture- see how most ...See More peole in delhi loot others to make money by hook or crook. me, a delhite,would like to see people here actually work to make so much money.Mumbai, heh- less we talk better it is. Posted by Ranjana Bhattacharya | 26 Feb, 2010

• Why there is so much hue nd cry over didi\'s partiality? Bengal has always been neglected by the past ministries. let her take care of Bengal. There r others to take care of the rest of the nation. sounds partial, right? who cares? Posted by Ranjana Bhattacharya | 26 Feb, 2010

• i do agree with you.... Posted by Prasun Guha, AREA MANAGER at Alembic Ltd | 26 Feb, 2010

• Nation is above State , no second thoughts on this.
  If West Bengal was neglected earlier may be she is doing some good for her state. It is the duty of Cabinet Ministers in their meeting to review and question the favoratism shown by Ministers. I donot think none bothers once this type bias is shown. Outside the Parliament, when the MP's conduct Public Meetings they shout as if the bias had taken place without their knowledge.MP's for the matter donot know for themselves what is needed in their constituency. They go by party's guidance and projects of personal interest in terms of returns to their personal accounts.
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  On another note Railway Minister should review the returns from various Railway Divisions and grant projects where returns will be more.Granting somany projects to West Bengal maybe O.K., but what will be the returns. Going by the discipline one follows in WB, how many people buy tickets and travel????. I remember an incident when Dewe Gowda waa Prime Minister (it was our fate) he influenced into stopping Tanjore - Nagore Railway Line and transferred to his own village where the occupnacy rate of railways is almost Zero.. Posted by BRAHMAYYA NOOTHANAPATI, Sr.Manager-Procurement-Powertrain at Chrylser LLC Global Sourcing | 26 Feb, 2010

• Dear Mr. Rahul Parkhi,
  
  To start withI agree that nation is always above states. Having said that and to answer u on the statement I would say that nation is made up of group of states comprising of many state ministers who are again representatives of their people who have elected them. I am certainly not trying to justify anything but if the same thing would have happened and somebody else would have been the mininster we would not be posting this on net and discussing it. The railways in past have not done enough for this state compared to other states and she has tried to bridge this gap a bit but her so called fault is that she is from the state. who will understand the problen better than her? Posted by Bhaskar Roy, Partner at Sai Ram Poducts | 26 Feb, 2010

• I think this favourism can be restricted to some extent by amending the Indian Constitution and thereby including suitable provision regarding the maximum and minimum budget allocation to each state of India so that the railway minister has to abide by the rule and each state of India will get a fair share of railway budget spending. Posted by Manoj Kedia, manager at CMC Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• This is an indication of an unavoidable and upcoming disaster she is making to hang on the national railways.Just look back to see the industrial downfall in WB and I am sure Mamata can just do nothing except taking the credibility for mobilising railways' fund to WB where the non working culture will simply put it into a slower moratorium. Didi, think big and be a national leader than the leader of WB. I can understand your memories with Jyoti Basu during his CM ship. Since he is no more now, you must come out of the shell and take railways to even a greater height than it has been ever taken to. Posted by Surendra Mohan Jena, Sr Logistic Manager at Govt of India | 26 Feb, 2010

• I think it is not at all unfair.Eastern india in general and West bengal in particular has been neglected too long by the centre.A comparison of per capita income of the states will clearly indicate that.From 1960 to till date no major central investment came to W.B.,inspite of the fact that West Bengal had to take the burden of 1 crore refugees from East Pakistan.No other state shared any burden of them.Centre also did not keep the promise of land and job to them, though those were offerred to refugees of West Punjab.The state bank of India was established in Kolkata,but it was shifted to bombay even though Kolkata was the biggest city in 1950s.All important financial centres wre shifted to bombay eg.RBI,LIC GIC,ICICI, ...See More SEBI,National stock exchange etc by the finance minister Morarji Desai And business man of Western India.No body was concerned then.Freight equalisation for steel and coal ruined the industry here while nourishing those in other states.West bengal with almost 9% of population with 3% of land was allocated according to it's area of land not on the basis of population it has to support due to partition by those crocked leaders of North and wesern India.So even now WEst Bengal has one of the lowest Ruote KM railway line on per capita calculation and also lowest lenght of national highways per capita.All modern industries Eg. BHEL,BHEML CEL HMT SCL ECIL,DRDO ISRO HAL,BARC ,IOL ONGC,Atomic energy establishments were established in south and,western india namely Bangalore and Mumbai,ignoring the whole of eastern india and its 35% share of indian population.No body was concerned about necessity of even growth of regions then.This deliberate and criminal neglect by centre is the cause of Left orientation and other movements in this region not the other way round.In the name of developing National capital region Thousands of crores of money has been spent on Delhi.Nobody was surprised.Now when mamata has just announced not even invested a single paisa in West Bengal and Eastern suddenly there is sudden awareness of equal in inclusive growth in different regions.Only in West Bengal people from all parts of india live peacefully and respectfully without any dicrimination on the basis of language state,religion.It is not Like Mumbai or Delhi there should be some limit of hypochrisy and parochialism Posted by Aniruddha Maitra | 26 Feb, 2010

• In the present not possible... Posted by ashok singh, COO PPP Project Apkey Dwar at Bartronics India Ltd | 26 Feb, 2010

• Nope I am totally disagreed with regional favorism as nobody is giving out of there pocket its all our money so no minister's thinking and priority shud be reflected in budget. I am from north n working in south-bangalore n I m big time fed up with all this regionalism.Still Indians need to be broadminded to tackle all this stupid tricks of leaders. Posted by Nitin Sharma, Asst Manager at Genpact, Hyderabad | 26 Feb, 2010

• This is nothing new thats happening. The trend was set years back. ITS JUST CONTINUING.
  
  The simple way to keep check of this partiality is by officially limitin home states benfit to less than 10% of all development. any thing above that no. shud be put to vote in the Rajya Sabha and let the raailway board address parliament not the ministers as regards to justification of projects. Posted by Devraj Sharma, Director at Passim Texin Pvt Ltd | 26 Feb, 2010

• Every central Minister should see a country as a whole
  and home state politics is not good for a country. Posted by Dinesh Dwivedi, Senior Supdt. at Mother Dairy | 26 Feb, 2010

• Now it has become a trend that the Railway Minister will do favor of his/her home state only. Unless each and every Indian start thinking broadly about the nation first it cannot be thought about proper and equal development of nation.However at the same time proper care should also be taken of regional and local issues to develpo the same.. Posted by Naresh Kumar Sharma, Sr. Vice President (Fianace & Commercial) at Bhubaneswari Coal Mining Limited(Essel Mining & industries Limited) | 26 Feb, 2010

• This is likely to add to the regional inbalances in investments and thereby development. States like
  Orissa have been totally ignored where massive FDI is lined up. Not creating adequate infrastructure esp. Railway network will give a jolt to its industrialization. Even if all the new trains and railway related projects are gifted to West Bengal, still the maoism, no work, frequent strikes will continue in the State. Just imagine what would happen if Mamata becomes the PM ? Posted by Vikash Nayak, Sr Contract Administrator & Logistics Specialist at Bechtel Corporation | 26 Feb, 2010

• Consider 'Politician above Nation ' for a moment, suddenly its not such a bad thing at all . At least development is taking place in the country. Posted by Gurmeet Singh, Sole Proprietor / Partner. at M/s Sardar Tea Company / M/s Golden Arrow Tours & Travels | 26 Feb, 2010

• What is wrong in this? Every predeccessors have done it before under all political party\'s regime. So Didi has only follwed the tradition. Posted by Souren Pal, Manager - Purchase & Manufacturing ( outsourcing) at eCCElent Component Manufacturing Pvt Ltd | 26 Feb, 2010

• Every Railway budget had the regional bias. But this trend need to be stopped as a State cannot be above Nation. The minister should allocate projects for the States which are less developed and where unemployment is high.
  
  Regards,
  Jayakumar - SAMVAD Public Relations Pvt. Ltd. Posted by Jayakumar Govind, Head Operations at SAMVAD Public Relations Pvt. Ltd. | 26 Feb, 2010

• Why not. Every railway minister had done for their state why not Mamata Banerjee.Beside West bengal she declared many projects for different part of India.Last 32 yrs WestBEngal is neglected and we select her from bengal to fight for bengal.If she does this what is the problem? Posted by MANOJ DATTA, Branch Manager at P C Chandra Jewellers | 26 Feb, 2010

• I feel in the present situation , i.e. taking in to consideration about the ensuing LS poll of 2011 in West Bengal, this was expected.
  
  Honestly, if we have to assess ,then the guage of measurement should be potential available in a pertinent state which remains as on date unutilized vis-a0vis proactiveness of the govt to utilize this potential , Posted by Sudipto Basu, HEAD FINANCE KOLKATA at Bennett Coleman & Company Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• Dear Parkhi,
  In india the caste system still alive so nothing will be happened for poor man all will be looking only for big businessman. so i thing where we are working we should do our responsible job and look our family. Posted by Kochipadiyil Thankappan Aravindasan, MATERIAL ENGINEER at TRC PUBLIC COMPANY LTD | 26 Feb, 2010

• Though I strongly favour the doctrine of equal distribution of wealth and development but if we analyze the long neglect of the state I think West Bengal needs more than what is left there now. If we s look at the state of affairs especially in North Bengal; there is no industrial infrastructure, tea gardens are almost dead and the locals have become poorer.
  If the centre is not able to or doesn't want to look after under developed regions, it becomes the duty of the regional powers or leaders to look after the interests of the people who have voted for them. Posted by ashraf khan, Logistics Operations at Logistics Services Provider | 26 Feb, 2010

• First we should see who needs more trains and employment opportunities ? Bihar, Bengal, Orissa & all the North east states. Our Mamta Didi has done a mistake by not giving rest of the projects to these states.
  
  Secondly once a state is already developed and not much dependent on the centre does need any further employment opportunities.
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  Just compare amongst all the Metro cities and u will feel sympathy for Kolkata, if u have visited.
  
  And fact will come out only when these projects start functioning. As u are aware about our political system let's pray for the success of these projects. Think like an Indian and be happy that it's a development of ur country and not for a particular state.
  
  In north eastern states Govt can take their Ballot boxes on the shoulder of porters bc'z neither there is a road nor RAILWAY. Be happy Posted by Vijay Kumar Singh, Logistics at Indian Air Force | 26 Feb, 2010

• Well in India ,economics has always been politicised.This is one more example /instance of it.Earlier Railway Ministers ,while presenting the Railway Budget always had the state they represented ,in mind and that state re3ceived the major benefit.So whats wrong now in this budget.Have we not followed the tradition? Posted by GIRISH BHATIA, COMPANY SECRETARY at Magma Fincorp Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• Well for one, i share opinions that west bengal has always been looked down upon by successive govts at the centre. loans, grants, subsidies etc. So i would agree that west bengal does require infrastructure development as this is also a key gateway linking several other states with better accessability. On the other hand can our babudom meet the industry requirements?? we need to change the thought process of the people who are deployed to develop these projects and bring them up to mark on delivering, this will be a hard task. Regional Ministers tend to always favor their home state and there has been no exception to the rule.. however i do think that development should be a national link which benefits the industries using the ...See More facilities and this will drive growth across the nation.. Posted by Shane Oliver, Partner at Mercury Shipping & Projects | 26 Feb, 2010

• This has become the recent trend.There is no order in the country.The entire country is passing through a very critical situation. There is all round deterioration of morale in this country and even, the Prime Minister of this country is helpless. I have lot of details to prove this. It has, therefore, become essential to fix norms by the Parliament after thorough deliberation. Posted by Ashok Jain, Dy. Chief Engineer at Damodar Valley Corporation | 26 Feb, 2010

• No way. It is highly unfair and is determental to overall growth of india. there are areas where no development has happened as they never had railway minister from there area. Posted by Jivan Dosajh, Senior Vice President at Jaipuria Group | 26 Feb, 2010

• while this is a very intresting debate, i guess before we form an opinion we must also take into consideration the current situation and potential of that state, agreed she went overboard in terms of giving majority of projects to WB, lets look at it in different manner, if we genenrate employment in WB, then we have that many less immigrants in major cities like Mumbai, Delhi. also lets face the facts that Kolkata always got a raw deal..... so though things could have been done differently, this in the long run will benefit everyone, today that region is biggest challenge for SCM professional like us, things can only improve. this is what inclusive growth is all about.
  before anyone jumps i am based out of Mumbai and from ...See More Himachal... but i am not complaining. Posted by Ajay Sharma, GM SCM at Tata Sky Satellite TV | 26 Feb, 2010

• when Mr. Lallu prasad Yadav was announcing rail factory for Bihar, Moving headquarters from Kolkata to Bihar, new trains (majority of them) only for Bihar. Recruitment boards were set up at Bihar. Where your concerns were at that time ? and also try answer that question first. Posted by Subrata Chatterjee, associate proofer at RAD365 Solutions Private Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• IT SHOULD NOT BE DONE, MY OPINION IS STRONGLY BASED ON INCOME OF THAT REGION/ZONE WISE ONLY PROJECTS SHOULD BE DECLARED . OUR MINISTERS FAVOUR IN THERE STATE ONLY FOR THEIR POLITICAL GAIN IN COMING ELECTIONS.THAT TO SHE IS WAITING FOR CM POST IN WEST BENGAL FOR LAST 25 YEARS. Posted by SRINIVAS KONA, EXCECUTIVE at GMR Hyderabad International Airport | 26 Feb, 2010

• u r from which state? and where r u working? Posted by Subrata Chatterjee, associate proofer at RAD365 Solutions Private Limited | 26 Feb, 2010

• This only shows the political bankruptcy of our nation and how facile, immature we are as a democracy Posted by Col Shivaji Samaddar, Gen Manager at Ambuja Realty | 26 Feb, 2010