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)
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