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Rail Budget 2001-2001 Highlights

PART - I

SAFETY

Action initiated on acceptance of recommendations of Railway Safety Review Committee

Outlay on safety related work in Budget is Rs 3,000 cr - covers fresh arisings of replacement works

Safety grant of Rs 15,000 cr being pursued

Safety Fund becomes operational

SECURITY

High-level Task Force set up to examine the entire issue of security

Report recently submitted - under examination

New initiatives - Freight

Various measure to be initiated to regain market share include

Comprehensive delegation of powers to zonal and division level

GMs authorised to devise appropriate marketing strategies at local level

Congested route development charge for heavily saturated routes

Volume discount scheme being continued for third consecutive year

Special lumpsum rates for movement in merry go round stretches targeted at short lead bulk traffic

RO-RO packages extended to Ahmedabad-Nabha and Chennai-Sankrail(Kolkata) circuits

Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) expected to cover the entire network of IR by June, 2001

PASSENGER AMENITIES

Ticket refunds are being fully computerised on all zonal Railways.

Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) are being installed at various important stations and will be later used for issue of tickets also.

For providing quicker information to public, on-line train running position will be available through Cable TV / Internet and on Cellular Phones by connecting National Train Enquiry System to these systems.

To reduce congestion on ticket counters, proposal to use internet kiosks for ticket retailing is under consideration.

Computerised information on reservation availability status and train movement status will be available on all A class stations.

In our Customer Care Institute, various training programmes have been initiated to train the front-line staff for better customer service.

Top priority would be accorded to provision of drinking water, platform shelters, increasing the length of the platform to accommodate longest train, raising the platform heights and ensure adequate seating arrangements.

To improve sanitation at stations, a large number of 'Pay and Use' toilets will be provided and mechanised cleaning will be undertaken.

74 stations to be upgraded as Model stations in addition to existing 210

71 new PRS locations in addition to existing 670

Amenities on the lines to Rajdhani Express trains introduced on 30 trains

CATERING

New Catering Policy formulated

Policy provides for 25% reservation in allotment of catering licence of small catering units to disadvantaged categories

HEALTH

Computerised database of non-railway medical facilities available along railway tracks country wise put on RAILNET

First Aid boxes with wider range of medicines provided in Model stations and long distance trains

Four Railway Hospitals to be modernised

One 30-bedded hospital to come up in Tollygunge, Kolkata

TOURISM

MOU between Govt. of Maharashtra and Ministry of Railways signed

Following tourist trains on the anvil

Pilgrim tourist train in Andhra Pradesh touching Secunderabad-Dharmavaram(Puttaparthy)- Tirupati- Guntur- Nadikude- Secunderabad circuit

Palace-on-Wheels type of train touching tourist places in AP

Palace On Wheels type of train on Bangalore-Hospet-Hubli-Goa-Mangalore-Hassan-Mysore-Bangalore circuit

Steam safari train in Orissa

"Mata Vaishno Devi" package successfully launched

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway to be revamped and upgraded - special tourist packages to be designed.

Regional Rail Museums to be set up at Varanasi and Malda

RELIEF MEAUSRES

300 Rakes of fodder and around 20,000 wagons of water carried free of charge to affected areas of Gujarat, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.

49 special trains run to carry relief material and relatives to earthquake victims in Gujarat

Contributions of Rs 15 cr to Prime Minister's National Relief Fund; also contribution of Rs 3.58 cr by Railway PSUs

Highlights

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