Highlights of Railway Budget 2010-11

• No increase in passenger fares and freight tariffs
• Service charges on e-tickets reduced
• E-ticket vans to be extended to Government Medical College Hospitals, Courts, Universities, IT hubs, IITs and IIMs
• SMS updates of reservation status and movement of wagons
• Ticket centres to be opened at district headquarters and village panchayats
• 100% concession for cancer patients alongwith an escort
• Modern luggage trolleys with uniformed attendants to assist senior citizens and women passengers
• Six clean bottling plants to provide cheaper, clean drinking water to passengers
• 12 companies of women RPF personnel, 'Mahila Vahini', for the security of women passengers
• No examination fee for women, minority and economically backward class candidates for Railway Recruitment Boards' exams
• Question papers now will be made available in local state languages besides Hindi, Urdu and English, examinations will be held on the same day in all regions
• 117 new train projects to be flagged off by the end of March 2010
• 52 long distance express trains and 28 passenger trains to be introduced
• Frequency of 12 trains will be increased and 21 trains will be extended
• Special trains to mark Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, for ladies, for uniformed persons and for tourists
• Double-decker coaches to be introduced in two trains each from Delhi and Kolkata
• 94 stations to be upgraded as Adarsh Stations, 10 more stations to be upgraded as World Class Stations
• Automatic fire and smoke detection system to be introduced in 20 trains
• All the unmanned Level Crossings (LCs) to be manned within five years
• Rs.41,426 crore outlay proposed, allocation for new lines increased to Rs.2,848 crore from Rs.4,411 crore
• More money to improve passenger amenities – Rs.1,302 crore in comparision to Rs.923 crore in 2009-10
• Railway revenue through branding/advertising to go up from Rs.150 crore to Rs.1,000
• Special Task Force to clear investment proposals within 100 days
• Concession in freight charges for food-grains and domestic use kerosene
• Kisan Vision Project for manufacturing refrigerated containers
• Allotment of iron ore rakes would be accessible through the web. RFID technology to be introduced for tracking of wagons
• Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route
• 93 new multi-functional complexes to be developed
• National High Speed Rail Authority proposed to plan high speed rail corridor
• Houses for all rail employees in next 10 years
• 522 hospitals, 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 10 residential schools, model degree colleges, technical and management institutes for railway employees

Source : Equity Bulls

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