Railway Budget proposals for 2010-11
Highlights of the Railway budget presented by Mamata Banerjee in Parliament Today:
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No hike in freight and passenger fare.
• New Janmabhoomi train between Ahmedabad and Udhampur
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Concession for children of accredited journalists up to 18 years.
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Free journey for cancer patients in sleeper and 3AC; 75 p.c. concession for companion
• Concession of Rs. 100 on freight rates of food grains for domestic use, kerosene, fertilizer.
• Survey will be conducted to connect Sealdah and Howrah stations in West Bengal
• Karmaboomi train for working class
• Bharat Tirth train to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore's birth 150th anniversary.
• Matribhumi special trains for women
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands to get railway line from Port Blair to Diglipur
• Velachery-St.Thomas Mount MRTS link by 2012
• New suburban trains for Chennai
• Stations to be named after Bhagat Singh, Mother Teresa, Tipu Sultan, Bahadur Shah Zafar
• RPF to have women battalion
• Railways to have master plan for North Eastern region
• Insurance facilities for licensed porters as part of railway's corporate social responsibility
• Kashmir rail link to be extended to Sopore
• Rs. 1,302 crore provided for passenger amenities
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Freight loading target for 2010—11 fixed at 944 million tonnes
• New train service to Dhaka, Bangladesh from Agartala.
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Gross traffic receipt for 2010-11 pegged at Rs. 94,765 crore
• High—speed dedicated passenger corridors to be constructed
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Revenue from non-core business of Railways to go up from Rs. 150 crore to Rs. 1,000 crore
• Wagon Repair Shop to be set up in Badnera near Amravati in Maharashtra
• Railways saved Rs. 2,000 cr from austerity drive
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10 more Duranto trains announced
• Service charge on AC fares cut to Rs. 20
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101 new suburban trains for Mumbai
• Dedicated corridors will be implemented on time
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Land acquisition: One member from the family would be given employment in Railways
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Railways earned net profit of Rs. 1348 crores.
• Railways will be the lead partner in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi
• Railways to set up Rabindra Museum in Howrah and Geetanjali Museum in Bolpur -- both in West Bengal -- to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore's 125th birth anniversary
• New testing facility in Bangalore
• Railways proposes modernisation of ICF, Chennai.
• New housing scheme for 14 lakh employees
• Railways to start six water bottling plants in places like Ambala, Thiruvananthapuram, Farakka, Amethi and Nasik to provide clean and cheap drinking water to passengers.
• Special task force for clearing investment proposals in 100 days
• New business model to be created
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Unmanned railway crossing will be phased out in five years
• Five sports academies to be set-up, including Delhi, Chennai, Secunderabad
• E-tickets to be made available at panchayat level
• Railways recruitment: Exams to be conducted in regional languages
• Railways recruitment: Simultaneous exams proposed
• Modern toilets to be introduced in stations
• No privatisation of Railways
• Fee waiver for economically weak
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Railways target 1,000 km of new line in one year
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117 new trains flagged-off in the last financial year
• Special task force will be set up for early clearance of projects
Source - The Hindu