Tuesday, July 8, 2014

HIGHLIGHTS OF RAILWAY BUDGET.

* 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)

Full Highlights (English): Click Here
Full Highlights (Hindi): Click Here
Full Railway Budget English : Click Here
Full Railway Budget Hindi : Click Here
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/railway-budget-201415-highlights/article6189594.ece

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