The states must be immediately assisted financially. Instead, the central government comes up with flimsy explanations to claim that 85 per cent of the cost of running the special trains is being paid by the Indian Railways. The railways are a system of mass public transport whose costs cannot be calculated on the basis of profit and loss. Every civilized country in the world runs public transport as a service that contributes to the overall wellbeing of the people and propels economic growth.

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