Railway Budget Highlights

GN Bureau | February 24, 2010


Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at Parliament House to present the Rail Budget 2010-11. Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa is also seen.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at Parliament House to present the Rail Budget 2010-11. Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa is also seen.

* No increase in passenger fares and freight tariffs
* Service charges on e-tickets reduced
* E-ticket vans to be extended to Government Medical College Hospitals, Courts, Universities, IT hubs, IITs and IIMs
* SMS updates of reservation status and movement of wagons
* Ticket centres to be opened at district headquarters and village panchayats
* 100% concession for cancer patients alongwith an escort
* Modern luggage trolleys with uniformed attendants to assist senior citizens and women passengers
* Six clean bottling plants to provide cheaper, clean drinking water to passengers
* 12 companies of women RPF personnel, ‘Mahila Vahini’, for the security of women passengers
* No examination fee for women, minority and economically backward class candidates for Railway Recruitment Boards’ exams
* Question papers now will be made available in local state languages besides Hindi, Urdu and English, examinations will be held on the same day in all regions
* 117 new train projects to be flagged off by the end of March 2010
* 52 long distance express trains and 28 passenger trains to be introduced
* Frequency of 12 trains will be increased and 21 trains will be extended
* Special trains to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, for ladies, for uniformed persons and for tourists
* Double-decker coaches to be introduced in two trains each from Delhi and Kolkata
* 94 stations to be upgraded as Adarsh Stations, 10 more stations to be upgraded as World Class Stations
* Automatic fire and smoke detection system to be introduced in 20 trains
* All the unmanned Level Crossings (LCs) to be manned within five years
* Rs.41,426 crore outlay proposed, allocation for new lines increased to Rs.2,848 crore from Rs.4,411 crore
* More money to improve passenger amenities – Rs.1,302 crore in comparision to Rs.923 crore  in 2009-10
* Railway revenue through branding/advertising to go up from Rs.150 crore to Rs.1,000
* Special Task Force to clear investment proposals within 100 days
* Concession in freight charges for food-grains and domestic use kerosene
* Kisan Vision Project for manufacturing refrigerated containers
* Allotment of iron ore rakes would be accessible through the web.  RFID technology to be introduced for tracking of wagons
* Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route
* 93 new multi-functional complexes to be developed
* National High Speed Rail Authority proposed to plan high speed rail corridor
* Houses for all rail employees in next 10 years
* 522 hospitals, 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 10 residential schools, model degree colleges, technical and management institutes for railway employees
 

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