Categories: Governance

Railway budget highlights 6 and last

* IRCTC to begin marriage catering service in phased manner

  • New R&D organisation to be established
    • 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

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