Some suggestions: Is railway minister listening?

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Whenever someone goes to a railway station in Dhaka or Chittagong, five days, six days or ten day earlier to his desired travelling day, he is told at the ticket counter that 'all the tickets are sold.' But when a ticket is somehow managed and one has boarded the train, he would find that lots of the seats are lying vacant and some people are selling those vacant seats. Intercity trains have an attendant in each compartment. It is alleged that some of these attendants are involved in selling vacant seats. These attendants virtually come to no help to the passengers.
To improve the situation I would like to request the railway minister to kindly take the following steps:
--The ticketing staff and their superiors in Dhaka and Chittagong railway stations, who are responsible for the 'non-availability' of tickets, may be transferred to some small stations like Mirsarai, Talshahar, Bhatshala, etc., irrespective of their political allegiance.
--The attendants may be removed from the train.
--The procedure of selling railway tickets by mobile phone operators is not customer-friendly. The Indian railway tickets can be bought even from some travelling agents in Bangladesh. Some travelling agents in the big cities of the country may be allowed to sell Bangladesh Railway tickets.
--Increasing the price of tickets is not a popular way to curb the loss of the railway. If the black marketing of the railway tickets can be brought down to a sustainable level, the Bangladesh Railway will become a profitable organisation.