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."
"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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