Rail Budget Highlights

Rail Budget 2010 Highlights (Continued)

• - No hike in passenger fares
• - Relief for cancer patients in sleeper class
• - Press concessions extended to family and dependents upto 20 years
• - Concessions for film industry, technicians
• - Railways to employ ex-servicemen for railway security
• - National High Speed rail authority to be set up
• - Bharat Teerth train in memory of Tagore to connect 16 destinations in India
• - FY11 total gross earnings Rs 88,281 Crs
• - Karma Bhoomi trains introduced for unorganised sector workers
• - Metro Railway to be expanded in Kolkata on priority
• - Rs 4,411 cr allocated for new rail lines
• - No forcible acquisition of land, one member of land losing family to get a job
• - Rail link to Bangladesh proposed
• - Railways to borrow Rs 9120 Crs this fiscal
• - FY11 working spend Rs 87100 Crs
• - 54 new trains to be introduced in FY11
• - FY11 Gross Budgetary Support Rs 15,800 Crs
• - FY11 dividend liability Rs 6600 Crs
• - FY11 Plan Outlay at Rs 41,426 Crs
• - Tourist trains to be launched on 16 routes
• - Pension appropriation to account for Rs. 14,500 Crs
• - Funding for Metro Rail projects increased by 55%
• - FY11 Gross traffic receipts Rs 94,800 Crs
• - Impact of 6th Pay Commission at Rs 55,000 Crs
• - Non-core business revenue estimated at Rs 1000 Crs
• - Double-decker trains to be launched on pilot basis
• - Have save Rs 2000 Crs because of austerity drive
• - To start door to door service for freight movement
• - Premium Tatkal sevice for parcel, freight movements
• - Dedicated passenger corridors planned
• - 10 more Duronto trains to be introduced
• - Freight on food grain and kerosene cut by Rs 100 per wagon
• - Railways profit at Rs 1328 Crs
• - Routes of 21 trains to be extended
• - Railway exam fees to be withdrawn for minorities, women and OBCs
• - Private operators can run special freight trains
• - Dividend to exchequer at Rs 6608 Crs
• - 2 freight corridors planned in Maharashtra
• - 5 wagon factories planned
• - 101 new suburban trains for Mumbai
• - Service charge on sleeper class cut to Rs.10
• - Service charge on AC Class cut from Rs.40 to Rs.20
• - Rae Bareli coach factory work to start within a year
• - Chittaranjan Locomotive Works to be modernised
• - State of the art loco pilot training centres proposed
• - No change in freight rates
• - Housing for all raiway employees in next 10 years
• - 50 creches to be set up for railways women employees
• - 381 diagonistic centres throughout India to be set up alongside hospitals
• - Proposed Rabindra museum at Howrah, Geetanjali museum at Bolpur
• - Special trains for commonwealth games
• - Railways to provide increased job opportunities for sportsmen
• - Plan to raise 20,000Crs in one year
• - Railway protection force to be augmented, Mahila Vahini to be introduced
• - Rs 1300Crs for passenger amenities
• - 117 new trains to be flagged out by March 31
• - All level crossings to be manned within next 5 years
• - Latest technology to be deployed to prevent accidents
• - E-ticket mobile vans to be introduced

• - Modern toilets to be introduced in most stations
• - Six drinking water bottling plants planned
• - Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route planned
• - Special drive to improve passenger amenities
• - Limited funds, constraints line addition
• - Major jump being planned to complete 1000 km of new railway lines in one year
• - Will involve all railway unions in development
• - New business models with public-private partnership needed
• - Railways not to be privatised
• - Special task force to clear proposals
• - Business community should come forward and form partnerships with railways
• - Our objective is inclusive growth
• - Goals broken up into short, medium and long-term
• - I want to help everbody within the limited infrastructure, says Mamata
• - Commercial viability not the only criteria