HIGHLIGHTS OF RAILWAY BUDGET 2014-15 SHARE it To all * No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges * Bullet train in Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector * Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains * Plan to hike speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors * Online booking to support 7,200 tickets per minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously * Reservation system to be revamped, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularised * Online platform for unreserved tickets * Combo parking-platform tickets at stations * Women RPF Constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted * Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations * Battery operated cars for differently-abled and senior citizens at major stations * Feedback services through IVRS on quality of food * Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations * Cleanliness budget up by 40 per cent over last year * CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness * Setting up of corpus fund for stations’ upkeep; RO drinking water in some stations and trains * Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches * 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years * FDI in railway projects, except in operations * FDI, domestic 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 developed to international standards through PPP model * Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered * Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10 per cent in 2000-01 to 23 per cent in 2012-13 * Solar energy to be tapped at major stations * Highest ever plan outlay of Rs. 65,455 crore for 2014-15 * Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 crore. New Trains Jansadharan Trains i) Ahmedabad-Darbhanga Jansadharan Express via Surat Ii Jaynagar-Mumbai Jansadharan Express ii) Mumbai-Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express iv) Saharasa-Anand Vihar Jansadharan Express via Motihari v) Saharasa-Amritsar Jansadharan Express Premium Trains i) Mumbai Central-New Delhi Premium AC Express ii) Shalimar-Chennai Premium AC Express iii) Secunderabad-Hazrat Nizamuddin Premium AC Express 6 iv) Jaipur-Madurai Premium Express v) Kamakhya-Bengaluru Premium Express AC ExpressTrains i) VijayawadaNewDelhiAPExpress (Daily) ii) LokmanyaTilak(T)-Lucknow (Weekly) iii) Nagpur-Pune (Weekly) iv) Nagpur-Amritsar (Weekly) v) Naharlagun-NewDelhi (Weekly) vi) Nizamuddin-Pune (Weekly) Express Trains i) Ahmedabad-Patna Express (Weekly)via Varanasi ii) Ahmedabad Chennai Express (Biweekly)via Vasai Road iii) Bengaluru -Mangalore Express (Daily) iv) Bengaluru -Shimoga Express (Biweekly) v) Bandra(T)-Jaipur Express (Weekly) via Nagda, Kota vi) Bidar-Mumbai Express (Weekly) vii) Chhapra-Lucknow Express (Tri weekly) via Ballia, Ghazipur, Varanasi viii) Ferozpur-Chandigarh Express (6 days a week) ix) Guwahati-Naharlagun Intercity Express (Daily) x) Guwahati-Murkongselek Intercity Express (Daily) xi) Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Express (Weekly) xii) Hapa-Bilaspur Express (Weekly)via Nagpur xiii) Hazur Saheb Nanded-Bikaner Express (Weekly) xiv) Indore-Jammu Tawi Express (Weekly) xv) Kamakhya-Katra Express (Weekly) via Darbhanga xvi) Kanpur-Jammu Tawi Express (Biweekly) xvii) Lokmanya Tilak(T)-Azamgarh Express (Weekly) xviii) Mumbai_Kazipeth Express (Weekly) via Balharshah xix) Mumbai-Palitana Express (Weekly) xx) New Delhi Bhatinda Shatabdi Express (Biweekly) xxi) New Delhi-Varanasi Express (Daily) xxii) Paradeep-Howrah Express (Weekly) xxiii) Paradeep-Visakhapatnam Express (Weekly) xxiv) Rajkot-Rewa Express (Weekly) xxv) Ramnagar-Agra Express (Weekly) xxvi) Tatanagar Baiyyappanahali (Bengaluru) Express (Weekly) xxvii) Visakhapatnam-Chennai Express (Weekly) Passenger Trains i) Bikaner-Rewari Passenger (Daily) ii) Dharwad-Dandeli Passenger (Daily)via Alnavar iii) Gorakhpur-Nautanwa Passenger (Daily) iv) Guwahati-Mendipathar Passenger (Daily) v) Hatia-Rourkela Passenger 7 vi) Byndoor-Kasaragod Passenger (Daily) vii) Rangapara North-Rangiya Passenger (Daily) viii) Yesvantpur-Tumkur Passenger (Daily) MEMU services i) Bengaluru-Ramanagaram 6 days a week (3 Pairs) ii) Palwal-Delhi-Aligarh DEMU services i) Bengaluru-Neelmangala (Daily) ii) Chhapra-Manduadih (6days a week) via Ballia iii) Baramula-Banihal (Daily) iv) Sambalpur-Rourkela (6 days a week) v) Yesvantpur-Hosur (6 days a week)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:44:12 +0000
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