Indian Rail & Union Budget Session Could Delay Due To Assembly Polls

By STAFF Writer
December 25, 2011

INDIAN UNION BUDGET - Assembly polls of five states in India may delay the scheduled Union and Rail Budget of 2012-13 by few days.

Five Indian states would go to polls on January 28, 2012 and will run till March 3, and the vote counting would be on March 4. This may force the Indian government to delay the Railway Budget presentation as well as that of Union Budget of year 2012-13 till March 9.

Usually the two budget presentations take place by February-end, after the Budget Session in the Indian Parliament or either the third week or last of week of February.

SY Quairashi, Chief Election Commissioner, said when asked about the possibility of budget being postponed that many factors are taken into account by the Commission while fixing the poll dates. He added that in 1976-77 due to election the budget presentation was delayed.

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December 25, 2011 | 0 comments

Too many green signals for poor in Rail Budget 2009-10

NO INCREASE IN FARES | SAFETY TOP PRIORITIES | MONTHLY PASS @ RS 25

• Tatkal tickets charge only Rs.100 instead of Rs.150
• Introduction of 12 non-stop trains
• Rail tickets also to be available post offices
• ‘Janata Khana’ will be introduced
• Monthly ticket pass at Rs.25 only fo upto 100 kms
• Women commandos in key routes trains
• Tatkal booking only in 48 hours

• Mobile rail ticket vans to be introduced. Now only 50 in numbers
• 200 mid and small sized railways stations will now get ATM facilities
• One doctor on each long distance trains
• New factory in Didi’s home state, West Bengal. It will make 500 state-of-the-art coaches annually
• 7 nursing colleges to be introduced to be provide employment to railway spouses
• Cold storages and cargo facilities for perishable goods
• World class railway stations is to be developed on public-private partnership model
• 309 stations out of 375 will be developed through modern facilities
• Air-conditioned double-decker trains to be introduced for inter-city travel
• SMS updates for wait-listed passengers
• 200 automatic vending machines to be introduced at key stations for selling

Quotes from Mamata Banerjee’s Rail Budget speech in Lok Sabha

"People all over the country have high expectations from the railway budget."

"Time has come when our economic and social philosophers have to change their old mindset of economic viability and replace it with social viability and upliftment."

"Fifty stations will be developed into world class facilities."

Snippets: Indian Rail Budget 2009-10, India Rail Budget, Rail Budget 09-10, Mamata Banerjee, Railway Minister

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