Railway budget highlights 6 and last

Rs.50 crore to be provided for start-ups by railway employees

E-catering to be extended to all stations

Local cusine of choice to be made available to rail passengers

LIC to fund Rs.1.5 lakh crore over five years on favourable terms

Two elevated tracks envisaged from Churchgate and CST on Mumbai's suburban railway system

Specialised teams envisaged in specific areas to improve efficiency

All-India 24X7 helpline for women

Fully unreserved trains to be operated on high-density corridors

Local art to be highlighted at railway stations

Academic facility at Vadodara being upgraded to university level

Railways to generate 9 crore mandays of employment in 2017-18 and 14 crore mandays in 2018-19

To increase lower berth quota for senior citizens by 50 percent

Dedicated freight corridors envisaged for North-South, East-West and East Coast alignments

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