Broomscapes: racial capitalism, waste, and caste in Indian Railway Stations

Abstract This study proposes a hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for evaluating the performance of the Indian railway stations (IRS). Since the customers are heterogeneous and their requirements are often imprecise, the evaluation process is a critical step for prioritizing the IRS. To improve the existing approaches, an efficient evaluation technique has been proposed by integrating rough numbers, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and multi-attribute border approximation area comparison (MABAC) methods in rough environment. The relative criteria weights based on their preferences given by experts is determined by rough AHP whereas evaluation of the alternatives based on these criteria are done by the modified rough MABAC method. A case study of prioritizing different railway stations in India is provided to demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of the proposed method. Among different criteria “proactively” is observed to be the most important criteria in our analysis, followed by ‘Railfanning’ and ‘DMO’ is found to be the best among the forty IRS in this study. Finally, a comparative analysis and validity testing of the proposed method are elaborated and the methodology provides a standard to select IRS on the basis of different criteria.

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Pedestrian Flow and Capacity Analysis at Railway Stations

Proceedings of International Web Conference in Civil Engineering for a Sustainable Planet ◽

10.21467/proceedings.112.65 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Archana S ◽

Parthiban P ◽

Samson Mathew

Keyword(s):

Pedestrian Flow ◽

Entry And Exit ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Railway Stations ◽

The Public ◽

Density Flow ◽

Pedestrian Traffic ◽

Kerala State ◽

Indian Railway ◽

State Railway

Enormous growth of population has been observed in recent years and the number of passengers is traveling by the Indian railway has been increased significantly during the pilgrim season due to rapid urbanization. Pedestrian traffic is an important aspect of traffic handled by the Indian railways, because of competitive tariffs with other modes of transports, the comfort of travel, and speed of connectivity. The present study is carried out in the Kerala state railway stations under the categories of A1(NSG2), and A (NSG3) which has the highest annual passenger of boarding and alighting are recorded. Pedestrian flows are taken with the help of recorded video graphic footage on the railway station premises. The studies carried out in the pedestrian parameters and estimate the capacity of pedestrian flow involve a variety of pedestrians such as era, sexuality, belongings carried by the pedestrian, schedule of a train as well at entry and exit passageway of stairways with the help of Indo-HCM 2017 and NFPA 130, 2020 also to analyses the level of service of a pedestrian with the fundamental diagrams of the pedestrian flow vs speed, speed vs density, flow vs density, and space vs speed are developed. The discoveries of this study are expected to be fruitful for civic bodies, railway protection force, policymakers, the public, and other stakeholders to design a solution working on the idea of world elegance railway stations.

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Child In Need Institute (CINI): Changing Lives of Homeless Children on Railway Stations

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases ◽

10.1177/2277977915574045 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 122-134

Author(s):

Suddhachit Mitra ◽

Vanita Yadav ◽

Saswata Biswas

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Child Protection ◽

External Environment ◽

Homeless Children ◽

Broad Area ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Non Profit ◽

Indian Railway ◽

Governmental Funding

The case is about a non-profit organization named Child In Need Institute (CINI), based at Kolkata, India. CINI is a respected name in the voluntary sector in India and has good credentials in nutrition, health, education and protection of women, children and adolescents. The case raises global concerns of child protection and homeless children. It discusses in detail CINI’s child protection programme at an Indian railway station. The programme was funded largely by a UK-based charity. Following the Indian government’s policy of disbursing funds to non-profits in the broad area of child protection, the funding pattern could substantially change. The case engages learners to comprehend the nature and extent of issues relating to homeless children on railway platforms in India, form a broad idea about the external environment and strategy of a non-profit engaged in child protection and understand the merits and disadvantages associated with governmental funding.

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Prioritizing service attributes for quality up‐gradation of Indian railway stations

The TQM Journal ◽

10.1108/17542731211215116 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 167-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sumana Gupta ◽

Rabindranath Datta

Keyword(s):

Railway Stations ◽

Indian Railway

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Postural Analysis Through RULA, REBA And QEC Of Vendors Selling Edible Items At Railway Stations And In The Trains

International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology - Regular Issue ◽

10.35940/ijeat.a9878.109119 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 7269-7277

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

National Level ◽

Railway Network ◽

Railway Stations ◽

Assessment Scores ◽

Northern India ◽

Working Postures ◽

Medium Risk ◽

Indian Railway ◽

Postural Analysis

An ergonomic study is conducted on postural analysis of the vendors selling edible items at various railway stations and in trains in Northern India. It has been observed that they attain a definite posture infinite number of times to perform a particular task for whole life. It depends upon the number of passengers whom they interact for selling edible products in the trains and at the railway stations. It has been observed that about 20-25 vendors are working at one railway station and +7000 railway stations in Indian railway network therefore at national level these are large in numbers. The RULA and REBA analysis are performed on the eight different vendors who were selling various types of eatable products at the railway stations and in the trains. The results of RULA analysis score is 100% score (7-high risk) was obtained for each vendor which indicates that there is a very high risk and further investigation is required on their working postures and implement change soon. On the other hand REBA analysis showed that 50% score (5- has medium risk, further investigate and change soon and remaining 50% score (8-9), pointed out that these postures have high risk, further investigate and implement change. The average of REBA score of all 8 vendors is 6.75 which showed that the working postures have high risk, further investigate and implement change soon. Further, QEC analysis also revealed that there is a high risk as per the assessment scores. Almost every vendor‘s shoulder score lies (31-40) which means high risk, also back score, wrist score and neck score showed high risk in QEC assessment scores. On the basis of results and succeeding discussions conclusions has been drawn

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Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.166 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jeff Chang ◽

Daniel Martinez HoSang ◽

Soya Jung ◽

Chandan Reddy ◽

Alex Tom

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Police Officers ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

The State ◽

Racial Capitalism

We chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu [the Korean term for the April 1992 uprising in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating]. We want to look at the conditions surrounding these flashpoints and the responses to them that then shaped race consciousness and politics subsequently. Today we have no shortage of crisis, no shortage of flashpoints. And yet there is hope. Perhaps more than at any other time in my lifetime, there are opportunities to shift mass culture, at the very least to popularize and normalize a slightly more critical consciousness. So now I want to turn to my friends here to talk about crisis and multiracial politics. We’ll start with Sa-I-Gu and work forward to this moment and also to future possibilities.

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