Highlights of Rail Budget 2014-2015

Highlights of Rail Budget 2014

Key Highlights

* No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges 

* 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years

* Bullet train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad Sector 

* Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains 

* Plan to hike speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors 

* Online booking to support 7,200 tickets/minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously

* Reservation system to be revamped, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularised 

* Online platform, unreserved tickets

* Combo parking-platform tickets at stations 

* Women RPF Constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted

* Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations 

* Battery operated cars for differently abled and senior citizens at major stations

* Feedback services through IVRS on quality of food 

* Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations

* Cleanliness budget up by 40 percent over last year 

* CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness 

* Setting up of corpus fund for stations' upkeep; RO drinking water at stations and trains

* Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches 

* FDI in railway projects, except in operations 

* FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure

* Office-on-Wheels: Internet & Workstation facilities on select trains

* Wi-Fi in A-1, A category stations and in select trains 

* Rail university for technical and non-technical subjects 

* Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model

* Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered

* Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10p (in 2000-01) to 23p (2012-13)

* Solar energy to be tapped at major stations 

* Highest ever plan outlay of Rs 65,455 crore for 2014-15 

* Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs 149,176 crore.

source:zeenews

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