RAILWAY BUDGET 2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS: NEW TRAINS : PREMIUM : Kamakhya–Bengaluru Premium EXPRESS : Bengaluru –Mangalore Express(Daily) Bengaluru –Shimoga Express(Biweekly) Bidar–Mumbai Express(Weekly) PASSENGER : Yesvantpur–Tumkur Passenger(Daily) Byndoor–Kasaragod Passenger(Daily) Dharwad–Dandeli Passenger(Daily) via Alnavar MEMU SERVICES : Bengaluru –Ramanagaram 6 days a week (3Pairs) DEMU SERVICES : Yesvantpur Hosur (6 days a week) Bengaluru –Neelmangala (Daily) FDI except Operations 100cr for Delhi Railway Station Doubling will priority then new lines All stations to have booking counter Atuomatic door in suburban and main line trains Tourist curcuit trains Tourist Train will run from Gadag to Pandarpur via Bagalkot, Bijapur and Solapur covering the pilgrim and tourist places of Karnataka and Maharashtra. Another such train will start from Rameshwaram covering pilgrim and tourist places like Bengaluru, Chennai, Ayodhya, Varanasi and Haridwar. BULLET TRAINS : Mumbai - Ahmedabad HIGH SPEED CORRIDOR : CHENNAI - BENGALOORU - MAISOORU 10 metro cities as International standard stations under PPP BYAPPANAHALLI as a terminal New survey : SHIMOGA - SRINGERI GADAG - HARAPANA HALLI DOUBLING : MANGALOORU - SOORATHKAL i) Moving towards paperless offices in Indian Railways in 5 years; ii) Next Generation Ticket Reservation System; iii) Wi-fi Services in all A1 and A category stations and in select trains; iv) Real-time tracking of trains and rolling stock; v) Mobile based Wakeup Call System for passengers; vi) Mobile based Destination Arrival Alert; vii) Station Navigation Information System; viii) Extension of Dual Display Fare Repeaters at all the Ticket Counters through PPP; ix) Digital reservation charts at Stations (Bengaluru model); x) Extension of Computerized Parcel Management System; xi) Extension of logistics support to various e-commerce Companies by providing designated pick-up centres at identified Stations; xii) Providing education to children of Railway staff at remote locations through Railtel OFC (optical fibre cable) network. Indian Railways proposes to outsource cleaning activities at 50 major stations to professional agencies and to set up a separate Housekeeping Wing to have focused attention and exclusive responsibility of maintaining cleanliness and sanitation at stations. Baba Prasad Venkatesh II Sandhya Venkatesh
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:32:18 +0000
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