RAIL BUDGET 2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS o No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges. o Bullet train in Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector. o Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains. o Plan to hike speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors. o Online booking to support 7,200 tickets per minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously o Reservation system to be revamped, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularized. o Online platform for unreserved tickets. o Combo parking-platform tickets at stations. o Women RPF Constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted. o Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations. o Battery operated cars for differently-abled and senior citizens at major stations. o Feedback services through IVRS on quality of food. o Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations o Cleanliness budget up by 40 per cent over last year. o CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness. o Setting up of corpus fund for stations’ upkeep; RO drinking water in some stations and trains. o Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches. o 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years. o FDI in railway projects, except in operations. o FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure. o Office-on-Wheels: Internet & workstation facilities on select trains. o WiFi in A1, A category stations and in select trains. o Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects. o Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model. o Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered. o Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10 per cent in 2000-01 to 23 per cent in 2012-13. o Solar energy to be tapped at major stations. o Highest ever plan outlay of Rs. 65,455 crore for 2014-15. o Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 crore. admin *-mv-*
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:59:23 +0000
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