RAIL BUDGET 2014 -2015 - HIGHLIGHTS Passengers side benefits * 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 *No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges * WiFi in A1, A category stations and in select trains Features of train schemes * 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 Women and senior citizen benefits * 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 Food and feedback * 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 Safety features * 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 Role * FDI in railway projects, except in operations * FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure Future aspects * Office-on-Wheels: Internet & workstation facilities on 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 Money Plan * Highest ever plan outlay of Rs. 65,455 crore for 2014-15 * Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 crore. Like and share this information for your friends and circle...
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:41:26 +0000
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