Indian Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal presented the Railway Budget of 2013-2014.
It is very happy to hear that railway will take some advanced steps
related to services provided to the passengers in the trains.
- Common rail-bus ticket to be introduced for Katra-Vaishnodevi pilgrims
- New train Azadi Express to places linked with the freedom struggle to be introduced, fares to be concessional
- Internet booking to be provided from 0030 hours to 2330 hours
- Internet booking to be strengthened with next-generation e-ticketing system to eliminate delays
- Special A/C coaches ‘Anubhuti’, to be introduced in select Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains to give excellent ambiance with commensurate fare
- Railways will use Aadhar data base for bookings and validation of passengers
- SMS alert service being rolled out shortly to intimate passengers about reservation status
- Free wi-fi facility to be provided in select trains
- Plan to allow e-ticketing via mobile phones
- Railway committed to bring marked change in passenger amenities
- Aim to eliminate 31,846 level crossings
- Identification of 104 stations for up gradation in places with more than one million population and of religious significance
- Railways to set up six more Rail Neer bottling plants
- 10% reservation for women in RPF
- Presence of women in RPF to go up
- Plan for elephant corridor safety
- Corporate safety plan propose
- Railway safety fund inadequate
- Fall in accidents — per million accidents down from .41 to .13
- There has been significant drop in train accidents
- Rs. 95,000 crore shortfall, meeting this shortfall will mean a paradigm shift
- Rs 1 lakh crore to be raised from public-private partnership, Rs 1.05 lakh crore through internal resources in the 12th Plan.
- 12th Plan railway size to be Rs 5.19 lakh crore, with gross budgetary support of Rs 1.94 lakh crore
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