No queues for tickets in 2 years: Lalu promises

New Delhi: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has said that he wants to create the best railways in the world and he is well on his way to do that.
"We have created an organization where every child in this country will say chak de Railways. Everybody is happy with the Railways,” said Lalu in his Budget speech, which declared that his department had made a profit of Rs 25,000 crore.
He said the turnaround of the Indian Railways was due largely to the efforts of its 1 core 40 lakh employees. "Everybody is appreciating that I have done tremendous work," he said.
Railway tickets will announce the expected arrival time of trains, display boards in trains will announce stations ahead, Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains will have more modern coaches, housekeeping in Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains will be outsourced and 560 railway platforms will be lengthened to accommodate more trains, he said.
The railways will implement schemes that will be no ticket queues in two years, he said.