Union Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda presented his first Railway Budget in Parliament. Below are the highlights of this Budget:
- No new hike in passenger fares and freight charges
- Bullet train in Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector
- Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains
- Proposal to enhance speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors
- Online booking to support 7,200 tickets/minute; to enable 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously
- Revamp of reservation system, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be promoted
- Online platform for unreserved tickets
- Stations to have Combo parking-platform tickets
- Women RPF Constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted
- Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations
- Battery powered 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 increased by 40% over last year
- CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness
- Forming a corpus fund for stations’ maintenance
- RO drinking water at some stations and trains
- Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches
- 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be started in Mumbai over 2 years
- FDI in railway projects, except in operations
- FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure
- Office-on-Wheels: Internet & workstation amenities on select trains
- WiFi in A1, A category stations and in select trains
- Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects
- Some stations to be built to international standards through PPP model
- Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhampered
- Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10% in 2000-01 to 23% in 2012-13
- Use of Solar energy 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.
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