The key points of Railway Budget 2016 are :

• Four special trains announced: Hamsafar-fully 3rd AC, Tejas-fast trains with on-board entertainment; Uday- double decker trains; Antyodaya Express- long distance superfast train for unreserved passengers.
• All-India 24X7 helpline for women
• Overnight ‘Uday’ double-decker trains soon: Prabhu
• Antyodaya Express long-distance superfast train for unreserved passengers.
• Half of lower berths reserved for senior citizens
• Fully unreserved superfast trains coming on heavy traffic routes
• Aastha Circuit Trains to connect important Pilgrim Centres
• Integrating all issues under two mobile apps- one for ticketing other for grievances
• All new Railway stations to be built as per Accessible India guidelines
• IRTC will begin to manage catering in a phased manner, local cuisine of choice will be made available.
• E-booking on concession passes for journalists to be introduced, says Suresh Prabhu
• All stations will be brought under CCTV surveillance: Suresh Prabhu
• Adoption and dissemination of latest tech is the way forward to a zero accident system
• All major stations to be brought under CCTV surveillance in a phased manner: Prabhu
• 17000 biotoilets and add’l toilets in 475 stations before close of this financial year.
• No barrier today between a common passenger and Indian Railways: Suresh Prabhu citing outreach to improve customer services.
• Social media has been used for feedback and complaints redressal mechanism
• Northeast India especially Mizoram and Manipur to be connected through broad gauge soon
• New locomotive factories to be set up with an order book of 40,000 crore rupees:
• 8.5 lakh crore to spent over 5 years for modernization of railway infrastructure: Suresh Prabhu
• Propose to electrify 2000 km next year, increased electrification budget by 50%: Suresh Prabhu
• New way of funding projects introduced using institutional financing
• Happy to announce action has been initiated on 139 Rail Budget 2015 announcements
• Indian Railways will generate employment of 14 crore man-days in 2018-’19: Suresh Prabhu
• Changed metric from completion to commissioning
• A system capable of taking care of its own needs financially and otherwise.
• Every rupee investment in Indian Railways can impact economic output in the larger economy by a factor of 5
• We will be at the forefront of infrastructure investment in the country.
• 1.21 lakh crores capital plan in Rail Budget 2016 : Suresh Prabhu, shunning conventional approach and adopting new ways: Suresh Prabhu
• A saving of 8,720 crore rupees for budget estimates of last year will be effected this year: Suresh Prabhu
• Co-operation, collaboration and communication, hallmarks of Indian Railways’s journey forward: Suresh Prabhu
• We need to reimagine the conventional ways of solving issues: Suresh Prabhu in Rail Budget 2016 speech.
• We need to reorganize and rejuvenate Indian Railways: Suresh Prabhu (ABP News)