RAILWAY BUDGET Highlights : * No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges * 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years * Bullet train on 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/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, 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 percent over last year * CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness * Setting up of corpus fund for stations upkeep; RO drinking water at stations and trains * Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches * FDI in railway projects, except in operations * FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure * Office-on-Wheels: Internet & Workstation facilities on select trains * Wi-Fi in A-1, A category stations and in select trains * Rail 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 10p (in 2000-01) to 23p (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.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:31:56 +0000
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