Railway Budget 2014-15 : Highlights at a glance
Union Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda exhibited his lady
Railway Budget in Parliament on Tuesday. Here are the highlights of this
Budget.
- No new build in passenger charges and cargo charges
- Bullet train in Mumbai-Ahmedabad area
- Diamond quadrilateral for fast trains
- Plan to trek velocity of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 areas
- Online booking to help 7,200 tickets per minute; to permit 1.2 lakh users/clients log in all the while.
- Reservation framework to be patched up, ticket-booking through cell telephones, post offices to be promoted
- Online platform for unreserved tickets
- Combo parking-platform tickets at stations
- Women RPF Constables to escort women coaches; 4,000 ladies constables to be drafted
- Retiring room office to be reached out to all stations
- Battery operated cars for in an differently-abled and senior residents at major stations
- Feedback benefits through IVRS on quality of food
- Food could be requested through SMS, telephone; Food courts at major stations
- Cleanliness budget up by 40 per cent over a year ago
- Cctvs to be utilized at stations for observing cleanliness
- Setting up of corpus fund for stations' upkeep; RO drinking water in a few stations and trains
- Automatic door shutting in mainline and sub-urban coaches
- 58 new trains and growth of 11; 864 extra Emus to be presented in Mumbai in excess of 2 years
- FDI in railway projects, aside from in operations
- FDI, local investments in rail infrastructure
- Office-on-Wheels: Internet & workstation facilities on select trains
- WIFI in A1, A category stations and in select trains
- Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects
- Some stations to be created to worldwide standards through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model
- Parcel traffic to be isolated to discrete terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered
- Loss per passenger per kilometer up from 10 per cent in 2000-01 to 23 per cent in 2012-13
- Solar energy to be tapped at significant stations
- Highest ever plan cost of Rs. 65,455 crore for 2014-15
- Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 crore.
- Gowda added 50+ news train in railway catalog that would be introduced soon. This includes 5 Jansadharaan , 5 Premium , 6 AC Express, 27 Express , 8 Passenger trains and 2 MEMU and 5 DEMU services).
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