Rail Budget 2007-08

Railway Minister Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav introduced the Railway Budget 2007-08 on 26th February 2007.

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TRAIN FARES

Fares reduced by 2-8 per cent across air-conditioned and other sleeper classes
Surcharge on superfast trains reduced by 20 per cent
Re 1 cut in the daily ticket of non-suburban ordinary passenger and non-superfast mail express trains
e-ticket charges reduced
Concessional tickets for those taking civil service and other government exams

FREIGHT RATES

Freight for diesel, petrol, ammonia and the like reduced by 5 per cent.
Fright on transportation of minerals like iron ore and limestone reduced by 6 per cent.
Discount on loading empty trains hiked to 30 per cent from 20 per cent, and facility extended to all commodities except coal, coke and iron ore.

NEW TRAINS

Usual Trains	Garib Raths
Indore-Pune Express	Secunderabad-Yesvantpur Garib Rath Express
Miraj-Belgaum Passenger	Jaipur-Bandra (Terminus) via Ahmedabad Garib Rath
Pune-Patna Express	Kolkata-Patna Garib Rath Express
Puri-Ahmedabad Express	Bhubaneswar-Ranchi Garib Rath Express
Howrah-Guwahati Saraighat Express	Thiruvananthapuram-Lokmanya Tilak (Terminus) Garib Rath Express
Miraj-Belgaum Passenger	Kolkata-Guwahati Garib Rath Express
New Delhi-Patna Rajdhani Express	New Delhi-Dehradun Garib Rath Express
Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Express	Raipur-Lucknow Jn. Garib Rath Express
Hatia-Yesvantpur Express
Machilipatnam-Tirupati Passenger
Patna-Bangalore Express
New Delhi-Lucknow Gomti Express
Yesvantpur-Kannur Express
Bangalore-Kochuvelli Express

RAIL BUDGET TIT-BITS

Rail tickets to be available at petrol pumps & ATMs.
6000 automatic ticket vending machines will be introduced.
2nd class unreserved coach number will be increased from 4 to 6.
Rs 5000cr will be invested in Mumbai Urban Trans Plan.
8,000 vacant posts in Railway Protection Special Force will be filled up shortly on an all India basis.
The target for construction of new lines in 2007-08 has been fixed at 500 kilometres. The sections include:
- Puntamba-Shirdi
- Mahoba-Khajuraho
- Qazigund-Kakapore and Budgam-Baramulla
- Jaggyapet-Malachervu
- Kottur-Harpanhalli
During 2007-08, a target of completion of about 1,800 km of following gauge conversion works has been fixed:
- Kurduwadi-Osmanabad of Miraj-Latur
- Saharsa-Dauram Madhepura of Mansi-Sahrsa-Purnea
- Phulera-Ringus-Rewari of Ajmer-Ringus-Rewari
- Pipar Road-Bi
- Darbhanga-Sitamarhi of Jayanagar-Darbhanga-Narkatiaganj
- Akola-Purna
- Pratapnagar-Bodeli of Pratapnagar-Chhota Udepur
- Pakala-Madanapalli of Dharmavaram-Pakala
- Kaptanganj-Thawe of Kaptanganj-Thawe-Chhapra
- Bagalkot-Gadag of Solapur-Gadag
- Mathura-Kasganj of Kanpur-Kasganj-Mathura
- Katihar-Jogbani
- Guntakal-Kalluru of Guntur-Guntakal-Kalluru
- Vellore-Thiruvannamalai of Villupuram-Katapadi
- Karaikkudi-Manamadurai of Trichi-Manamadurai
- Mehsana-Patan
- Shimoga-Anandapuram of Shimoga Talguppa

RAILWAY BUDGET 2007-08 HIGHTLIGHTS

RAILWAY BUDGET 2007-08 UPDATE

Suburban rail projects will be completed on priority basis.
Rs 5000cr will be invested in Mumbai Urban Trans Plan.
6000 automatic ticket vending machines in next 2 years.
To expand capacity on 20000km of rail route.
Facilities of hand-held computers for on-spot reservations.
2nd class unreserved coach number will be increased from 4 to 6.
6000 automatic ticket vending machines will be introduced.
Development of 225 stations to be completed by March.
Freight corridor to begin this year, investment Rs 30000cr.
Tariff discount to increase high axle wagon production.
Rail tickets to be available at petrol pumps & ATMs.
Unreserved bogies will be having leather seats.
Construction of dedicated freight corridor to start in 2008.
800 new coaches.
The cement freight traffic surged 30 per cent as compared to 25 per cent in the period April-December last fiscal.
Passenger traffic up 14% in Apr-Dec.
The Return on Capital Employed (RoCE) stands at 32 per cent and the interest surplus stands at Rs 10,227 crore.
Facilities of e-tickets will made available.
MST tickets will be available through internet with easy recharge system.
Call center and SMS services may start soon.
Women above the age of 45 will get quota sleeper lower birth in A.C. and sleeper class compartments.
Students travelling for exam purpose will get 50% discount in second class sleeper birth.
Special arrangements for handicapped in all trains.
Milkman and other retail businessmen will have separate compartments in passenger trains.
Unreserved compartments will be increased.
Railway made high surplus without burden on common man.
In the current year we have increased 700 compartments to accommodate more passengers.
Railways made Rs.20,000cr profit in FY'07.
Rail budget starts amid chaos in the Parliament.
The outlay for the railways in the year 2006 was Rs 23,700 crore.
In the year 2006 the railways generated Rs 10,794 crore through internal generation.
Last year Shree Yadav declared "that the year 2006 will be the year of passenger service with a smile."
Last year passenger and freight rates were left broadly unchanged.
According to data, Indian Railways runs over 14,000 passenger and freight trains and carries 15 million people every day -- it is more than the population of Sweden and Norway combined.
"I have tried to address the interests of all sections of people. But if there are any shortcomings, people should tell me, I will try to remove them in future," Mr. Yadav said yesterday.
On the eve (Sunday) of the Rail Budget 2007, Lalu Prasad assured that people can expect a "good Railway Budget."
Rail Budget 2007-08 will be Lalu Prasad Yadav’s fourth consecutive Railway Budget.
Railway Budget 2007-08 will be presented by Railway Minister Sri Laloo Prasad Yadav in the Parliament on 26-Feb-07 from 12 PM IST onwards.

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