Railway budget highlights 3

* Social media being increasingly used to ensure transparency

• Online booking of retiring rooms made possible

  • 17,000 additional bio-toilets to be provided by the end of current fiscal

  • Finalised bids for two new loco factories under Make in India initiative

  • WiFi facilities at 100 more stations this year and 400 stations next year

  • 2,800 km of broad gauge track conversion envisaged

  • Seven km of broad gauge lines to be commissioned every day during 2016-17

  • Hope to commission 19 km of new broad gauge track every day by 2018-19

  • Rs.8.8 lakh crore to be spent on infrastructure in five years

  • Rs.40,000 crore expected from the government as budgetary support

  • Budget that reflects the expectations of the entire nation

  • Making all-out efforts to translate dream of Prime minister Narendra Modi into reality

  • Aiming tom achieve operation ratio of 92 percent

  • Saving of Rs.8,720 crore from last year's estimates

  • Envisaging capital expenditure of Rs.1.21 lakh crore