Railway Budget: 50 world class stations, doctor in trains

Railway Budget: 50 world class stations, doctor in trains

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a slew of measures including the development of fifty world class stations and introducing double decker coaches for inter-city travel.
Apart from that other measures which have been announced include introducing of Girl child scholarship for Group B employees. Other measures include increasing women commandos in key routes, Mobile ticketing vans, ramps and special bogeys for physically challenged passengers along with automatic ticket vending machines on major stations.
Railway Budget Highlights
• New scheme called 'Ijjat' for low income monthly travel
• Freight loading fell short of target
• Unrealistically high targets of Interim Budget not sustainable
• Railways to develop cold storages for farmers to store vegetables and fruits
Freight loading fell short of target
• Unrealistically high targets of Interim Budget not sustainable
• Railways making efforts with Department of Heavy Industries for takeover of ailing wagon manufacturing units like Burn Standards
• 18,000 wagons to be acquired during the current year
• Better representation to be given to minorities, women and the economically backward in railway recruitment
• Superfast parcel express trains to be started on a pilot basis between Delhi and Chennai and Delhi and Mumbai.
• Launch of premium parcel service between 3 stations
• A new coach factory to be set up in Kanchrapara in Bengal
• 7 nursing colleges to be set up on railway land in places including Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai
• Railway medical colleges to be developed along with rail hospitals on public-private partnership
• An Integrated Security System is being developed for 130 vulnerable stations
• Mega logistic hubs in Eastern, Western corridors
New policy to allow private freight terminal
• Railways to lease out more land for commercial purposes
• Special recruitment drive to fill up physically challenged posts
• Metro Rail Hopsital in Tollygunj to be upgraded
• Hospitals to be developed for railway staff
• Women commandos in key routes to be increased
• Girl child scholarship for Group B employees
• Mobile ticketing vans to be introduced
• Ramps, special bogeys for physically challenged passengers
• To introduce double-decker coaches for inter-city travel
• Unreserved ticketing terminals to be expanded from 5000 to 8000
• Computerised tickets can be brought from 5,000 post offices
• Automatic ticket vending machines on major stations
• SMS update on waitlisted tickets
Priority to cleanliness and punctuality
• Ticketing services in 200 new towns and cities
• Specially designed coaches for handicapped passengers
• One doctor to be deputed in long-distance trains
• On-board infotainment services to be offered on Shatabdi, Rajdhani trains
• 49 stations of religious importance to be upgraded
• Toilet facilities for women at stations
• Multi-functional complexes for railway users at stations
• Book stores, PCOs to be set up across stations
• Priority for passenger amenities
• Railways to lay stress on platform and train security, catering
• CST Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Howrah, Sealdah to be developed as world class stations
• Develop 50 stations as world-class stations
• Expert committee on socially unviable projects to be set up
• Railways trying to keep up with change
• All-inclusive development needs to happen: Mamata
• Committed to the downtrodden: Mamata
• Rail projects shouldn't be gauged by economic viability
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