High-Speed ​​Train hits TCDD

State Railways, whose budget has turned into a black hole for years, turned the 2017 into 2 billion pounds.

According to the spokesman Ismail Sahin news, the agenda of the recent accidents in the Republic of Turkey State Railways (TCDD) losses are growing every year.

According to the audit report of the Court of Accounts 2017 2 billion pounds of damages in the previous year TCDD'nin total balance sheet loss of 18 billion liras exceeded.

The TCA auditors have warned the TCDD management for long years that it should focus on the modernization of conventional lines as well as the high-speed train projects, and emphasizes that the investments should be completed at the most appropriate cost and on time. Preparing the projects based on detailed investigations and ground-drilling surveys, exiting the tenders on realistic amounts, except for the compulsory cases, suggesting that the projects should not be changed after the tender, the auditors emphasize that TCDD should be turned into an efficient and competitive institution.

The financial burden on TCDD, which is forced to operate at high costs, is increasing day by day.

LARGE DISCUSSION IN THE NUMBER OF PERSONNEL
Due to the loss of years, the institution that cannot create internal resources meets the resource requirements continuously by the capital increases made by the Treasury and the revolving / guaranteed foreign loans.

TCDD, the State Economic Organization (SEE), to which the Treasury allocated the most resources, used 3.6 billion TL, 2016 billion TL in 4.4 and 2017 billion TL in 5.8 within the scope of its investment program.

The TCDD, whose number of employees has decreased from 16 thousand to 36 thousand in the last 13 years, has 8 thousand contracted employees and 5 thousand permanent workers. (SPOKESMAN)