assurance last week about penalising short distance travellers on long distance trains. This is surely a matter of arriving at a comprehensive transport policy and cannot be taken care of by what the South Eastern Railway general manager last week described as a deliberate policy by the railways to discourage short distance commuters". There is an urgent need to spell out and begin implementing a comprehensive transport policy with particular emphasis on public transport systems as a part of the Eighth Plan.
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