Travelled on 4th August from PUNE to SC. Condition has improved drastically. Coach was C6, it was spanking clean. Food is improving (still not the best of my various journeys in different Raj, Shatb, Durontos), most obvious effect is occupancy my coach was jampacked from PUNE to SC, that too on a Monday morning.
Only flip side, since LHBification is strangely the punctuality. Got delayed by 45 minutes in reaching SC, return train (SC to PUNE) arrived at Begumpet on 15.30 hrs !!!!