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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