We provide you with the highlights of the budget session below:

HIGHLIGHTS:

1) No increase in passenger fares and freight charges

2) Bullet train in Mumbai – Ahmedabad sector

3) Plan to hike speed of trains to 160 – 200 Kmph in 9 sectors

4) Online platform for unreserved tickets

5) Online booking to support 7,200 tickets per minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users

simultaneously

6) Combo parking-platform tickets at stations

7) 4,000 women constables to be recruited to ensure personal safety of women; 17,000 RPF

constables to provide safety to passengers

8) Cleanliness budget up by 40% over the last year; CCTVs to be used at stations for

monitoring cleanliness

9) Battery-operated cars for differently-abled and senior citizens at major stations

10) Retiring room facility to be extended to all the stations

11) Feedback services through IVRS on food quality

12) Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations

13) Setting up of corpus fund for stations’ upkeep; RO drinking water in some stations &

trains

14) Automatic door closing in mainline and suburban coaches

15) 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai

over 2 years

16) FDI in railway projects, except in operations

17) FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure

18) Internet and workstation facilities on selected trains; Wi-Fi in A1, A category stations and

in selected trains

19) Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects

20) Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model

21) Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered

22) Loss per passenger per kilometer up from 10% in 2000-01 to 23% in 2012-13

23) Solar energy to be tapped at major stations

24) Highest ever plan layout of Rs.65,455 Crore for 2014-15

25) Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 Crore; Receipts in FY15 pegged at Rs.

1.64 lakh Crore

26) Indian railways to become the largest freight carrier in the world

27) Social obligation of railways in 2013-14 was Rs. 20,000 Crore

28) Gross traffic receipts in 2013-14 was Rs. 12,35,558 Crore; Operating ratio was 94%

29) Indian railways spent Rs. 41,000 Crore in laying of 3700 Km of new lines in 10 years

30) Fare vision will bring in Rs.8000 Crore; need another Rs.9000 Crore for golden

quadrilateral project

31) With 12,500 trains, railways move 23million passengers every day

32) Separate housekeeping wing at 50 major stations

33) Mechanized laundry will be introduced

34) Dedicated freight corridor in eastern and western corridors

35) 5400 unmanned level crossing removed

36) Tourist trains to be introduced to link all major places of tourist interests across the

country

37) Ultrasonic system to detect problem in track

38) Diamond Quadrilateral project of high speed trains to connect all major metros

39) GIS mapping and digitization of railway Land. Extension of logistics support to various

e-Commerce companies

40) Facilitate milk through rail; Special milk transportation trains in association with Amul

and National Dairy Association Board

41) One ticket to reach from Delhi to Srinagar. Uddhampur to Banihal by bus and Banihal to

Srinagar by train.

42) Train connectivity to Char Dham

43) Paperless office of Indian railways in 5 years; digital reserve charts at stations

44) Ready-to-eat meals of reputed brands to be introduced in phased manners