Rail Budget 2010 Highlights

• Mamata Banerjee ends her budget speech
• No hike in passenger fares
• Relief for cancer patients in sleeper class
• Press concessions extended to family and dependents upto 20 years
• Concessions for film industry, technicians
• Railways to employ ex-servicemen for railway security
• National High Speed rail authority to be set up
• Bharat Teerth train in memory of Tagore to connect 16 destinations in India
• FY11 total gross earnings Rs 88,281 Crs
• Karma Bhoomi trains introduced for unorganised sector workers
• Metro Railway to be expanded in Kolkata on priority
• Rs 4,411 cr allocated for new rail lines
• No forcible acquisition of land, one member of land losing family to get a job.
• Rail link to Bangladesh proposed
• Railways to borrow Rs 9120 Crs this fiscal
• FY11 working spend Rs 87100 Crs
• 54 new trains to be introduced in FY11
• FY11 Gross Budgetary Support Rs 15,800 Crs
• FY11 dividend liability Rs 6600 Crs
• FY11 Plan Outlay at Rs 41,426 Crs
• Tourist trains to be launched on 16 routes
• Pension appropriation to account for Rs. 14,500 Crs
• Funding for Metro Rail projects increased by 55%
• FY11 Gross traffic receipts Rs 94,800 Crs
• Impact of 6th Pay Commission at Rs 55,000 Crs
• Non-core business revenue estimated at Rs 1000 Crs
• Double-decker trains to be launched on pilot basis
• Have save Rs 2000 Crs because of austerity drive
• To start door to door service for freight movement
• Premium Tatkal sevice for parcel, freight movements
• Dedicated passenger corridors planned
• 10 more Duronto trains to be introduced
• Freight on food grain and kerosene cut by Rs 100 per wagon
• Railways profit at Rs 1328 Crs
• Routes of 21 trains to be extended
• Railway exam fees to be withdrawn for minorities, women and OBCs
• Private operators can run special freight trains
• Dividend to exchequer at Rs 6608 Crs
• 2 freight corridors planned in Maharashtra
• 5 wagon factories planned
• 101 new suburban trains for Mumbai
• Service charge on sleeper class cut to Rs.10
• Service charge on AC Class cut from Rs.40 to Rs.20
• Rae Bareli coach factory work to start within a year
• Chittaranjan Locomotive Works to be modernised
• State of the art loco pilot training centres proposed
• No change in freight rates
• Housing for all raiway employees in next 10 years
• 50 creches to be set up for railways women employees
• 381 diagonistic centres throughout India to be set up alongside hospitals
• Proposed Rabindra museum at Howrah, Geetanjali museum at Bolpur
• Special trains for commonwealth games
• Railways to provide increased job opportunities for sportsmen
• Plan to raise 20,000Crs in one year
• Railway protection force to be augmented, Mahila Vahini to be introduced
• Rs 1300Crs for passenger amenities
• 117 new trains to be flagged out by March 31
• All level crossings to be manned within next 5 years
• Latest technology to be deployed to prevent accidents
• E-ticket mobile vans to be introduced
• Modern toilets to be introduced in most stations
• Six drinking water bottling plants planned
• Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route planned
• Special drive to improve passenger amenities
• Limited funds, constraints line addition
• Major jump being planned to complete 1000 km of new railway lines in one year
• Will involve all railway unions in development
• New business models with public-private partnership needed
• Railways not to be privatised
• Special task force to clear proposals
• Business community should come forward and form partnerships with railways
• Our objective is inclusive growth
• Goals broken up into short, medium and long-term
• I want to help everbody within the limited infrastructure, says Mamata
• Commercial viability not the only criteria
• Mamata begins budget speech in Lok Sabha
• Mamata Banerjee set to begin her Railway Budget speech shortly
• Mamata Banerjee set to begin her Railway Budget speech shortly
• White paper on Indian Railways' vision 2020 presented to Lok Sabha
• Speaker disallows adjournment motion but allows special discussion on price rise
• Mamata reaches Parliament to present Rail Budget 2010
• What accounting system has Mamata used for Budget: Lalu Prasad Yadav
• Mamata leaves for Parliament to present Rail Budget
• Mamata has already introduced 28 trains from West Bengal in the last one year
• Opposition corners govt on price rise
• Government may hike freight rates by 7 to 8%
• Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to present Railway Budget 2010-11 in the Lok Sabha any time after 11.30
• No hikes in passenger fares anticipated