Ms Mamta Banerjee presented the first Rail Budget of the newly elected government and acknowledged a need to put in more efforts towards development of facilities like passenger amenities, cleanliness, security and catering services.
Rail Budget 2009-10 at a glance:
New Trains (Not the complete list)
- - Vishakhapatnam - Secunderabad -Mumbai Superfast (Bi-weekly)
- - Bangalore- Hubli -Solapur Superfast (Tri-weekly)
- - Howrah - Bangalore Superfast (Weekly)
- - Kamakhya - Puri Express (Weekly)
- - Gandhidham- Howrah Superfast (Weekly)
- - Delhi - Sadulpur Express (Tri-weekly)
- - Mumbai - Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly)
- - Durg- Jaipur Express (Weekly)
- - Hazrat Nizammudin -Bangalore Rajdhani Express (Tri-weekly) via Kacheguda
- - Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (Daily)
- - Varanasi- Jammu Tawi Superfast (Daily)
- - Mumbai - Jodhpur Express (Weekly)
- - Bangalore - Kochuveli Superfast (Weekly)
Train Frequency Increased
- - 2685/2686 Chennai- Mangalore from 3 days to daily
- - 2443/2444 New Delhi- Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express from 2 days to 4 days
- - 2111/2112 Amravati-Mumbai Express from 3 days to daily
- - 2149/2150 Pune - Patna Express from 4 days to daily
- - 2487/2488 Jogbani- Delhi Express from 5 days to daily
- - 2905/2906 Porbander - Howrah (via Hapa) from 2 days to 3 days
- - 4207/4208 Delhi - Pratapgarh Padmavat Express from 3 days to daily
- - 2423/2424 New Delhi- Guwahati Rajdhani Express from 5 days to 6 days
- - 7091/7092 Secunderabad -Patna from 2 days to daily
- - 2739/2740 Secunderabad - Vishakapatnam Express from 4 days to daily
- - 2957/2958 Ahmedabad - New Delhi Rajdhani Express from 6 days to daily
- - 2487/2488 Jogbani- Delhi Express from 5 days to daily
- - 2823/2824 Nizammudin-Durg Chhatisgarh Sampark Kranti from 2 days to 3 days
Infrastructure
- - New lines to be introduced
- - Gauge conversion at Chhindwara, Ahmedpur and Naghbir
- - Doubling at Tala, Secunderabad, Sahibganj, Ara, Ghumani, Hissar, Dankuni, Bibinagar, Krishnanagar, Rajkot, Bandel and Jhansi.
Freight
- - Several measures to improve the proportion of freight traffic moving on Railways
- - Permission to access private sidings will be given to containers which will help in attracting piecemeal traffic presently not being carried by Railways
- - A premium service for container movement with assured transit time is being considered for time sensitive cargo.
- - Private ownership of special purpose rolling stock for commodities and private operation of freight terminals will be encouraged.
- - A new policy would be unveiled to allow construction and operation of private freight terminals and multi-modal logistic parks.
- - Mega logistics hubs are being planned alongside the proposed Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors
Facilities
- - Passenger amenities to be improved
- - Emphasis on cleanliness inside trains and on platforms
- - Quality of Railway catering to be improved
- - Safety and security to be bettered
- - Train timings to be adhered to with punctuality
