Highlights of Railway Budget 2011 IANS, Feb 25, 2011, 01.00pm IST NEW DELHI: Highlights from Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's budget presented in the Lok Sabha on Friday:
* Earnings for 2010-11 set to exceed Rs.1 lakh crore. * Integrated suburban network to be set up in Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad and other cities; suburban system of Hyderabad to be strengthened. * Concession for physically handicapped and gallantry award winners for travel in Rajdhani and Shatabdi expresses. * 50% concession for mediapersons with families to be increased from once to twice a year. * Mumbai suburban system's EMU coaches to be increased from nine to 12. * Multi-purpose smart card to be introduced for all-India travel. * New Durantos to be run on Allahabad-Mumbai, Pune-Ahmedabad, Sealdah-Puri, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Madurai-Chennai routes * Working expenditure during 2011-12 estimated at Rs.87,000 crore * Passing through a difficult phase; 97% increase in expenditure due to implementation of Sixth Pay Commission report. * Loss of Rs 3,500 crore in 2010-11. * Ten-year backlog of 1.75 lakh jobs being addressed; 16,000 ex-servicemen to be given jobs in railways. * Airport-like trolleys to be provided at more stations. * Railways to set up a sports cadre. * Train to run to Bangladesh to showcase Indian culture. * Upgraded class of air conditioned travel to be introduced shortly. * Anti-collision device, successful in North West Frontier Railway, to be extended to three more zonal railways. * Railways always been a soft target but law and order a state subject. If railways are blocked in one region, this has a snowballing effect in other parts of the country. * Will add 180 km of rail lines in 2011-12. * All-India security helpline set up. * To adopt modern technology through centres of academic excellence. * Work started on two dedicated frieght corridors. * Work on upgrading 442 stations to be completed by March 31. * First coach from Rae Bareli factory in next three months. * Work on wagon factory in Orissa to begin after land is acquired. * Railways to set up factory in Jammu and Kashmir. * To set up Metro coach factory at Singur in West Bengal. * Manipur to be soon connected to railway network. * Centre for excellence in software to be set up at Darjeeling. * Combines strong economic focus along with inclusion. * Develop business-oriented policies to aid industry. * Happy to announce 85 PPP proposals received; set up single-window system to take these forward. * Decide to set up rail-based industries. (Sweety Bhalla) Assistant Manager (Compliance) IFCI LTD New Delhi India E-Mail: sweety.bha...@ifciltd.com ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16990) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= ***************************************************************************** Disclaimer This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are advised not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions will be deemed unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses/spyware/malware. IFCI Ltd has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage that may be sustained as a result of any virus/spyware/malware in this e-mail. It is advised to carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. IFCI Ltd reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the IFCI Ltd e-mail system. ***************************************************************************** Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! Question 9 relates to disability.
