When Lalu Prasad became the railway minister of the UPA government he was considered as a misfit carrying the baggage of being tainted in the fodder scam. The Indian Railway was not in good shape. With 91% of its earnings went for pensions and salaries. There was no scope of any development. The chamathkar of lalu made the railway a cash cow with earnings shot up to 50,000 crores .
While presenting the first budget lalu touched the chord of common man like introduction of kulhar cups, khadi blankets etc.
He has the distinction of not raising the train fares for the last 5 years. In fact, he had brought down the train fares considerably. This is the rarest phenomenon of Indian railways. The passenger sector remain untouched, introduced Garib raths commercialization of railway lands brought in huge revenue to the ailing railways.
The freight trtaffic shot up thanks to the booming economy. His adversaries accused him of playing pork barrel politics with earmarking all major projects to Bihar. This practice was there even before lalu became the railway minister. With his performance as a successful railway minister he rose to the level of a management guru. His success story of Indian Railway became a case study for management trainees When an question was posed to him how he made a turnaround in the railways's fortune?"the cow must be milch ed fully ,otherwise, it would fall sick" was his reply .
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