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Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee present a People’s budget in Parliament on 3rd July 2009.
Railway Budget 2009 Highlights
- PM says Mamata has done a commendable job
- No increase in freight rates
- No increase in passenger fares
- Tatkal charges go down to Rs 100, booking time reduced from 5 days to 2 days
- Unreserved ticketing systems to be expanded from 5,000 to 8,000 terminals
- Janta khana (peoples’ food) to be provided in railway stations
- Develop 50 stations with world class amenities
- 12 new non-stop point to point trains introduced
- ATMs on 200 mid and small sized stations
- Aim for 1300 km gauge conversion by 2010
- AC double decker trains for inter-city travel
- Railway Finance Corp to borrow Rs 9000 crore in FY 2010
- Madrasa students included in concession scheme
- To set-up North Eastern development funds
- Ladies special trains to be introduced in Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi
- Kolkata Metro to be expanded
- Increased Budgetary support by Rs 5000 crores
- AC ‘Yuva’ trains at Rs 299 and Rs 399 to be introduced
- Press correspondents to get 50% concession
- To launch 57 new trains
- Non-stop AC ‘Turant’ trains to connect major metros
- Rs 25 ticket for those with monthly salary under Rs 1500 under the ‘Izzat scheme’
- Ladies special trains during peak hours
- A new scheme called ‘Izzat’ to be introduced
- To use Railway Land Bank for industrial development
- To set up a new coach factory in Kanchrapara
- Computerised tickets from post offices
- 3000 more unreserved ticketing terminals
- At least one doctor on long distance train
- Railways to set up cold storage cargoes
- Mega logistics hubs in Eastern and Western corridor
- Launch of premium faster parcel services in three routes
- Aim to fulfill SC/ST backlog in jobs
- 18,000 wagons to be acquired by FY 2010
- Railway hospitals to be upgraded
- Commando battalion to be raised for security purposes
- Integrated security schemes for 130 vulnerable stations
- Railway recruitment board to be reviewed shortly
- 7 nursing colleges to be set up on railway land
- Environmental friendly toilets on trains
- 49 stations of religious importance to be upgraded
- Automatic vending machines to be set up at stations
- Women commandos to employed for the security of women passengers
- High-capacity double decker AC coaches on the cards
- Automatic vending vans to be set up to make ticketing easy
- Computerised ticketing from post offices
- SMS update on waitlisted tickets
- Tickets can be bought from Post Offices
- Automatic train information systems on major cities
- Specially designed coaches, escalators and elevators for the physically challenged
- Depute doctors on long distance trains
- Book stores, PCOs to be set up across stations
- Infotainment services on Rajhandi and Shatabdi trains
- To take the Private-Public partnership route to develop stations
- Priority for food and water on trains
- Developing multi-functional complexes at stations
- Priority to passenger amenities
- Rail projects shouldn’t be gauged by economic viability but governed by social viability: Mamata
- To set up panel for financing unvaiilable rail projects
- Improvement of trains amenities
- Railways is trying to keep up with change
- Committed to the cause of the underpreviliged.
- Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee begins her speech in Parliament.
- Shares of engineering and wagon manufacturing firms surged by up to 4 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange in early trade today ahead of the Railway Budget 2009-10
- Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) gained 2.15 per cent at Rs 1,105, Hind Rectifiers, the manufacturer of rectifier equipment and semi-conductor devices, rose by 5.27 per cent to Rs 64.95
- Budget is of the people, by the people and for the people: Mamata Banerjee
- More trains for West Bengal
- Budget hotels at railway stations
- More Garib Rath trains to be introduced
- Measures to improve catering and on-board decoration
- Special announcement for security on railways
- Mamata is expected to announce 25 new trains
- Amid expectations of improvement in railway amenities and food served in trains, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee would present a ‘pro-people’ budget in Parliament
- Business leaders and commoners in West Bengal are expecting a series of sops for the state when she presents her budget in parliament
- In her two budgets earlier, Banerjee introduced a new biweekly New Delhi-Kolkata Rajdhani Express, besides starting several express trains connecting various portions of West Bengal
- She might also announce changes in the Tatkal scheme to make it more passenger friendly
- Among the legacies of conflict that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has inherited from her predecessor Lalu Prasad is the much-hyped budget hotels scheme – involving the construction of 100 hotels on vacant railway land in the public-private partnership mode
- Mumbai, which accounts for more than 50 per cent of country’s train passengers, expects three of its major projects to be approved in the railway budget
- Mamata’s predecessor Lalu Prasad Yadav had promised to introduce GO Mumbai card on Central and Western Railway and on BEST
Source – http://in.budget.yahoo.com/rail-budget.php
