Budget
2009-10
The honourable minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee presents
the Railway Budget 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday. The excerpts from
the speech are as follows:
Highlights of Rail Budget 2009-10
- SMS updates to indicate berth and confirmation status
- E-ticketing simplified
- 49 stations of religious importance to be upgraded
- Tatkal scheme to be reduced from 5 days to 2 days
- No increase in passenger fares across classes
- Toilets to be similar to ones in aircrafts; facilities for every
journey longer than 2 hours
- Multi-functional utilities like bookstores and STD booths will
be made available in stations
- Cold storage facilities for farmers to store produce
- Non-stop AC 'Turant' trains to be introduced
- 12 new 'Turant' AC sleeper trains between major metros
- Optic fibre network to be optimised
- Increase number of women commandos in key routes
- Hospitals to be developed for railway staff
- Girl child scholarship for Group B Rail employees
Cold storage facilities to be developed
- Mechanised laundry to be provided at key stations
- 11,000 MW power project for traction support
- Metro concession in Kolkata to minority students
- Launch of premium parcel service between 3 stations
- Total working expenditure estimated at Rs 81,685cr
- New scheme called 'Ijjat' for low income monthly travel
- Press correspondents to get 50% concession
- Commando unit to be raised, women unit will also be there
- Integrated security system for 140 sensitive stations
- ADGM of each zone will be responsible for supervision
- Ambulance services for passenger in metro cities to start with
- Ramps, special bogeys for physically challenged and senior
citizens
- Rail over and under bridges : Centre-state funding to be
reviewed
- Security will be priority : both on stations and on board
- 50 stations to be class-1 stations with world class facilities
- Doctors on long-distance trains
- Focus on cleaner trains
- Multi-function complexes in station premises
- Special facilities to be provided at 375 stations
- Airconditioned double decker coaches will be rolled out for
intercity commuters
- Passengers can now buy computerised tickets from over 5000
post-offices
- ATMs on 200 mid and small sized stations
- New train information system to be started in Kolkata, Chennai,
Delhi
- Launch of premium parcel service between 3 stations
- New policy to allow private freight terminal
- Railways to lease out land for commercial purposes
- Special recruitment drive to fill up physically challenged posts
- Metro Rail Hospital in Tollygunj to be upgraded
- Mamata Banerjee presents Railway Budget 2009-2010
Passenger Amenities
- Press correspondents to be given 50% discount along with spouse
- Student concession: High Madrassa and Senior Madrassa students
to be included in discount scheme
- Rs 25 per month ticket without surcharge for unorganized sector
employees under ‘Izzat’ scheme for people with salary upto
1500
- National sports persons to be preferred at in recruitment
- E-ticketing to be enhanced, simplified
- Unreserved ticketing terminals to be expanded from 5000 to 8000
- Automatic ticket vending machines to be increased
- Computerised issuance of tickets from 5000 post offices
- SMS updates to indicate berth and confirmation status
- Railways to develop cold storages for farmers to store
vegetables and fruits
- Tests on environment friendly, green toilets
- Mobile ticketing vans for purchase in local markets: 50 such
vans to be introduced
- Vacuum toilets in trains
- Railway hospitals to be upgraded
- Ambulance services for passenger in metro cities to start
- Online infotainment services in major long distance trains
including Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains
- PRS is now in 800 locations with more than 600 terminals, will
cover 200 locations more
- All MPs can now identify one PRS location of their choice in
their constituencies
- Automated ticketing vendors in 200 large stations
- AC double decker coaches for intercity travel
- ADGM of each zone will be responsible for supervision
- At least one doctor in long distance trains
- Punctuality, safety, good food, water and toilet facilities.
Also emphasis on cleanliness
- To launch ‘janata khana’ with regional cuisines
Development Work
- Target mechanised maintenance of 3,500km in FY10
- Seven nursing colleges to be set up on railway land in places
including Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
- 50 stations to be upgraded to world class standards (list at the
end)
- 49 stations to be developed al pilgrim centres
- Railway medical colleges to be developed along with rail
hospitals on public-private partnership.
- Multi-functional complexes with shopping malls, food stalls,
medicines and variety stores in different parts of the country.
- A new coach factory with state-of-the-art facilities,
exclusively for manufacturing 500 coaches per annum to be set up at
Kanchrapara in West Bengal.
- Work on coach factory in Rae Bareli to be speeded up.
- Mega logistics hubs in Eastern and Western corridors
- Colleges on Rail land on Public-Private Partnership
- To set up 1000 MW power plant
- 309 out of 375 stations will be developed with modern facilities
- Optic fibre network to be optimised
- Rail over and under bridges: Centre-state funding to be reviewed
- To put railways land to productive use along freight corridor
- Private operation of freight terminals will be encouraged
- To use Rail Land Bank for industrial purpose
- Viability study for 4 new dedicated freight corridors
- Freight and wagons
- 18,000 wagons to be acquired during the current year, says
Banerjee.
- Plan to improve workshop efficiency
- Upgradation of railway printing presses
- Mega logistics hubs proposed
- Premium freight services
- Tuglakabad and Chennai
- Tuglakabad to Mumbai
- Tuglakabad to Howrah
- To load 403.5 mln tn coal in FY10
- Freight corridor renamed Diamond Rail Corridor
Trains
- High-capacity air-conditioned double-decker trains to be
introduced on select inter-city routes, says Banerjee.
- Superfast parcel express trains to be started on a pilot basis
between Delhi and Chennai and Delhi and Mumbai.
- Now in south, south western railways in 2 years
- Yuva train: AC seat @ Rs 299 upto 1500 kms and Rs 399 for upto
2500 kms
- Mumbai to Delhi and Delhi to Kolkata
- Plan warehouses to curb wastage of perishable freight
- New Coach Factory Kacharapara, West Bengal
- Only ladies special trains in kolkata, Delhi and Chennai
- ‘Turonto’ Trains to be introduced. These will be
non-stop trains between major stations. 12 new AC sleeper non-stop
trains
57 New Trains
- Vishakhapatnam – Secunderabad – Mumbai Superfast
(Bi-weekly).
- Sriganga Nagar – Delhi – Nanded Superfast (Weekly)
- New Jalpaiguri – Sealdah Superfast (Tri-weekly)
- Bangalore – Hubli – Solapur Superfast (Tri-weekly)
- Howrah – Bangalore Superfast (weekly)
- Pune – Daund-Solapur Superfast (Daily)
- Ranchi-Howrah (3 days via Ghatshila-Kharagpur and 3 days via
Asansol) Intercity (6 days a week)
- Kamakhya-Puri Express (Weekly)
- Jabalpur-Ambikapur Express (Tri-weekly)
- Gandhidham-Howrah Superfast (Weekly)
- Delhi-Sadulpur Express (Tri-weekly)
- Ajmer-Bhopal Express (by intergration of 9655/56 Ajmer-Ratlam
and 9303/04 Ratlam- Bhopal express trains) (Daily)
- Bilaspur-Tirunelveli Jn. (Thiruvananthapuram) Superfast (Weekly)
- Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly)
- Durg-Jaipur Express (Weekly)
- Dibrugarh Town-Chandigarh Express (Weekly)
- Delhi-Farakka Express (Bi-weekly)
- Hazrat Nizmmudin-Bangalore Rajdhani Express (Tri-weekly) via
Kacheguda
- New Jalpaiguri-Delhi Express (Bi-weekly) via Barauni
- Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (Daily)
- Mysore-Yesvantpur Express (Daily)
- Koraput-Rourkela Express (Daily) via Rayagada
- Agra-Ajmer Intercity Superfast (Daily)
- Mumbai-Jodhpur-Bikaner Superfast (Bi-weekly)
- Agra-Lucknow Junction Intercity (Daily)
- Hapa-Tirunelveli Jn. Superfast (Bi-weekly) via Thiruananthapuram
- Gwalior-Bhopal Intercity Express (5 days a week) via Guna
- Kanyakumari-Rameshwaram Express (Tri-weekly) via Madurai
- Howrah-Haridwar Superfast (5 days a week)
- Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Superfast (Daily)
- Gorakhpur-Mumbai Superfast (Daily)
- New Delh-Guwahati Rajdhani Express (Weekly) via Muzaffarpur
- Veraval-Mumbai Link Service (Daily)
- Ranchi-Patna Jan Shatabadi Express (Daily)
- Jhansi-Chhindwara Express (Bi-weekly) via Bina-Bhopal
- Mumbai-Jodhpur Express (Weekly)
- Jamalpur-Gaya Passenger (Daily)
- Jhajha-Patna MEMU (Daily)
- Kanpur-New Delhi Shatabdi Express (6 days a week)
- Bhopal-Lucknow-Pratapgarh Superfast (Weekly)
- Lucknow-Rae Bareli-Bangalore Superfast (Weekly)
- Shimoga-Bangalore Intercity Express (Daily)
- Madurai-Chennai Express (Bi-weekly)
- Guwahati-New Cooch Behar Express Intercity (Daily)
- Balurghat-New Jalpaiguri Express (Daily) via Kishanganj
- Alipurduar-New Delhi Jalpaiguri Express Intercity (Daily) via
Siliguri
- Dharmanagar-Agartala Fast Passenger (Daily)
- Rewari-Phulera Passenger (Daily) via Ringus
- Shoranur-Nilambur Road Passenger (Daily)
- Coimbator-Shoranur Passenger (Daily)
- Mathura-Kasganj Passenger (Daily)
- Farakka-Katwa-Azimganj-Nawadwip Dham Express (Daily)
- Bangalore-Kochuveli Superfast (Weekly)
- Kolkata-Rampurhat Express (Daily)
- New Jalpaiguri-Digha Express (Weekly)
- Purulia-Howrah Express (Bi-weekly)
- Kolkata-Bikaner Express (Weekly) via Nagore
Non-stop ‘Turonto’ Trains Announced Between
- New Delhi-Jammu Tawi Non stop (Tri-weekly)
- Howrah-Mumbai (AC) Non stop (Bi-weekly)
- Mumbai-Ahmedabad (AC) Non stop (Tri-weekly)
- Chennai-Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
- New Delhi-Lucknow Non Stop (Tri-weekly)
- Delhi-Pune (AC) Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
- Howarh-Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
- New Delhi-Allahabad Non Stop (Tri-weekly)
- Sealdah-New Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
- Kolkata-Amritsar Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
- Bhubaneswar-Delhi Non Stop (weekly)
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