Railway Budget 2011, Railway Budget 2011 New Trains, Ministry Of Railways,Railway Budget 2011 Highlights
Railway Budget 2011
- Ticket booking charges decreased: Rs. 10 in AC, Rs. 5 in sleeper
- Railways to install anti-collision devices in eight railway zones
- Rail Yatri Sewa - Assistance for senior citizens at major stations
- No increase in fares
- Relief for cancer patients in sleeper class
- Press concessions extended to family and dependents upto 20 years
- Concessions for film industry, technicians
- Rail-based industries will be set-up
- Rs 4,411 cr allocated for new rail lines
- No forcible acquisition of land, one member of land losing family to get a job.
- Rail link to Bangladesh proposed
- New Durantos to be run on Allahabad-Mumbai, Pune-Ahmedabad, Sealdah-Puri, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Madurai-Chennai routes, among others.
- Rail linkage to Gujarat from Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor.
- Housing for all raiway employees in next 10 years
- 50 creches to be set up for railways women employees
- 381 diagonistic centres throughout India to be set up alongside hospitals
- Proposed Rabindra museum at Howrah, Geetanjali museum at Bolpur
- Special trains for commonwealth games
- Railways to provide increased job opportunities for sportsmen
- Plan to raise 20,000Crs in one year
- Railway protection force to be augmented, Mahila Vahini to be introduced
- Rs 1300Crs for passenger amenities
- 117 new trains to be flagged out by March 31
- Airport-like trolleys to be provided at more stations.
- Age for senior citizen's concession reduced to 58 from 60.
- Concession for physically handicapped and gallantry award winners for travel in Rajdhani and Shatabdi expresses.
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