Budget 2009-10

The honourable minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee presents the Railway

Budget 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday. The excerpts from the speech are
as follows:

Highlights of Rail Budget 2009-10 Budget Speech - English

Budget Speech - Hindi
• SMS updates to indicate berth and confirmation status
• E-ticketing simplified
• 49 stations of religious importance to be upgraded
• Tatkal scheme to be reduced from 5 days to 2 days
• No increase in passenger fares across classes
• Toilets to be similar to ones in aircrafts; facilities for every journey longer than 2 hours
• Multi-functional utilities like bookstores and STD booths will be made available in stations
• Cold storage facilities for farmers to store produce
• Non-stop AC 'Turant' trains to be introduced
• 12 new 'Turant' AC sleeper trains between major metros
• Optic fibre network to be optimised
• Increase number of women commandos in key routes
• Hospitals to be developed for railway staff
• Girl child scholarship for Group B Rail employees
Cold storage facilities to be developed
• Mechanised laundry to be provided at key stations
• 11,000 MW power project for traction support
• Metro concession in Kolkata to minority students
• Launch of premium parcel service between 3 stations
• Total working expenditure estimated at Rs 81,685cr
• New scheme called 'Ijjat' for low income monthly travel
• Press correspondents to get 50% concession
• Commando unit to be raised, women unit will also be there
• Integrated security system for 140 sensitive stations
• ADGM of each zone will be responsible for supervision
• Ambulance services for passenger in metro cities to start with
• Ramps, special bogeys for physically challenged and senior citizens
• Rail over and under bridges : Centre-state funding to be reviewed
• Security will be priority : both on stations and on board
• 50 stations to be class-1 stations with world class facilities
• Doctors on long-distance trains
• Focus on cleaner trains
• Multi-function complexes in station premises
• Special facilities to be provided at 375 stations
• Airconditioned double decker coaches will be rolled out for intercity commuters
• Passengers can now buy computerised tickets from over 5000 post-offices
• ATMs on 200 mid and small sized stations
 • New train information system to be started in Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi
• Launch of premium parcel service between 3 stations
• New policy to allow private freight terminal
• Railways to lease out land for commercial purposes
• Special recruitment drive to fill up physically challenged posts
• Metro Rail Hospital in Tollygunj to be upgraded
• Mamata Banerjee presents Railway Budget 2009-2010

Passenger Amenities

• Press correspondents to be given 50% discount along with spouse

• Student concession: High Madrassa and Senior Madrassa students to be included in discount
scheme
• Rs 25 per month ticket without surcharge for unorganized sector employees under ‘Izzat’ scheme
for people with salary upto 1500
• National sports persons to be preferred at in recruitment
• E-ticketing to be enhanced, simplified
• Unreserved ticketing terminals to be expanded from 5000 to 8000
• Automatic ticket vending machines to be increased
• Computerised issuance of tickets from 5000 post offices
• SMS updates to indicate berth and confirmation status
• Railways to develop cold storages for farmers to store vegetables and fruits
• Tests on environment friendly, green toilets
• Mobile ticketing vans for purchase in local markets: 50 such vans to be introduced
• Vacuum toilets in trains
• Railway hospitals to be upgraded
• Ambulance services for passenger in metro cities to start
• Online infotainment services in major long distance trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains
• PRS is now in 800 locations with more than 600 terminals, will cover 200 locations more
• All MPs can now identify one PRS location of their choice in their constituencies
• Automated ticketing vendors in 200 large stations
• AC double decker coaches for intercity travel
• ADGM of each zone will be responsible for supervision
• At least one doctor in long distance trains
• Punctuality, safety, good food, water and toilet facilities. Also emphasis on cleanliness
• To launch ‘janata khana’ with regional cuisines

Development Work

• Target mechanised maintenance of 3,500km in FY10

• Seven nursing colleges to be set up on railway land in places including Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
• 50 stations to be upgraded to world class standards (list at the end)
• 49 stations to be developed al pilgrim centres
• Railway medical colleges to be developed along with rail hospitals on public-private partnership.
 • Multi-functional complexes with shopping malls, food stalls, medicines and variety stores in
different parts of the country.
• A new coach factory with state-of-the-art facilities, exclusively for manufacturing 500 coaches per
annum to be set up at Kanchrapara in West Bengal.
• Work on coach factory in Rae Bareli to be speeded up.
• Mega logistics hubs in Eastern and Western corridors
• Colleges on Rail land on Public-Private Partnership
• To set up 1000 MW power plant
• 309 out of 375 stations will be developed with modern facilities
• Optic fibre network to be optimised
• Rail over and under bridges: Centre-state funding to be reviewed
• To put railways land to productive use along freight corridor
• Private operation of freight terminals will be encouraged
• To use Rail Land Bank for industrial purpose
• Viability study for 4 new dedicated freight corridors
• Freight and wagons
• 18,000 wagons to be acquired during the current year, says Banerjee.
• Plan to improve workshop efficiency
• Upgradation of railway printing presses
• Mega logistics hubs proposed
• Premium freight services
• Tuglakabad and Chennai
• Tuglakabad to Mumbai
• Tuglakabad to Howrah
• To load 403.5 mln tn coal in FY10
• Freight corridor renamed Diamond Rail Corridor

Trains

• High-capacity air-conditioned double-decker trains to be introduced on select inter-city routes, says

Banerjee.
• Superfast parcel express trains to be started on a pilot basis between Delhi and Chennai and Delhi
and Mumbai.
• Now in south, south western railways in 2 years
• Yuva train: AC seat @ Rs 299 upto 1500 kms and Rs 399 for upto 2500 kms
• Mumbai to Delhi and Delhi to Kolkata
• Plan warehouses to curb wastage of perishable freight
• New Coach Factory Kacharapara, West Bengal
• Only ladies special trains in kolkata, Delhi and Chennai
• ‘Turonto’ Trains to be introduced. These will be non-stop trains between major stations. 12 new AC
sleeper non-stop trains

57 New Trains

• Vishakhapatnam – Secunderabad – Mumbai Superfast (Bi-weekly).

• Sriganga Nagar – Delhi – Nanded Superfast (Weekly)
• New Jalpaiguri – Sealdah Superfast (Tri-weekly)
• Bangalore – Hubli – Solapur Superfast (Tri-weekly)
• Howrah – Bangalore Superfast (weekly)
• Pune – Daund-Solapur Superfast (Daily)
• Ranchi-Howrah (3 days via Ghatshila-Kharagpur and 3 days via Asansol) Intercity (6 days a week)
• Kamakhya-Puri Express (Weekly)
• Jabalpur-Ambikapur Express (Tri-weekly)
• Gandhidham-Howrah Superfast (Weekly)
• Delhi-Sadulpur Express (Tri-weekly)
• Ajmer-Bhopal Express (by intergration of 9655/56 Ajmer-Ratlam and 9303/04 Ratlam- Bhopal
express trains) (Daily)
• Bilaspur-Tirunelveli Jn. (Thiruvananthapuram) Superfast (Weekly)
• Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly)
• Durg-Jaipur Express (Weekly)
• Dibrugarh Town-Chandigarh Express (Weekly)
• Delhi-Farakka Express (Bi-weekly)
• Hazrat Nizmmudin-Bangalore Rajdhani Express (Tri-weekly) via Kacheguda
• New Jalpaiguri-Delhi Express (Bi-weekly) via Barauni
• Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (Daily)
• Mysore-Yesvantpur Express (Daily)
• Koraput-Rourkela Express (Daily) via Rayagada
• Agra-Ajmer Intercity Superfast (Daily)
• Mumbai-Jodhpur-Bikaner Superfast (Bi-weekly)
• Agra-Lucknow Junction Intercity (Daily)
• Hapa-Tirunelveli Jn. Superfast (Bi-weekly) via Thiruananthapuram
• Gwalior-Bhopal Intercity Express (5 days a week) via Guna
• Kanyakumari-Rameshwaram Express (Tri-weekly) via Madurai
• Howrah-Haridwar Superfast (5 days a week)
• Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Superfast (Daily)
• Gorakhpur-Mumbai Superfast (Daily)
• New Delh-Guwahati Rajdhani Express (Weekly) via Muzaffarpur
• Veraval-Mumbai Link Service (Daily)
• Ranchi-Patna Jan Shatabadi Express (Daily)
• Jhansi-Chhindwara Express (Bi-weekly) via Bina-Bhopal
• Mumbai-Jodhpur Express (Weekly)
• Jamalpur-Gaya Passenger (Daily)
• Jhajha-Patna MEMU (Daily)
• Kanpur-New Delhi Shatabdi Express (6 days a week)
• Bhopal-Lucknow-Pratapgarh Superfast (Weekly)
• Lucknow-Rae Bareli-Bangalore Superfast (Weekly)
• Shimoga-Bangalore Intercity Express (Daily)
• Madurai-Chennai Express (Bi-weekly)
• Guwahati-New Cooch Behar Express Intercity (Daily)
• Balurghat-New Jalpaiguri Express (Daily) via Kishanganj
 • Alipurduar-New Delhi Jalpaiguri Express Intercity (Daily) via Siliguri
• Dharmanagar-Agartala Fast Passenger (Daily)
• Rewari-Phulera Passenger (Daily) via Ringus
• Shoranur-Nilambur Road Passenger (Daily)
• Coimbator-Shoranur Passenger (Daily)
• Mathura-Kasganj Passenger (Daily)
• Farakka-Katwa-Azimganj-Nawadwip Dham Express (Daily)
• Bangalore-Kochuveli Superfast (Weekly)
• Kolkata-Rampurhat Express (Daily)
• New Jalpaiguri-Digha Express (Weekly)
• Purulia-Howrah Express (Bi-weekly)
• Kolkata-Bikaner Express (Weekly) via Nagore

Non-stop ‘Turonto’ Trains Announced Between

• New Delhi-Jammu Tawi Non stop (Tri-weekly)

• Howrah-Mumbai (AC) Non stop (Bi-weekly)
• Mumbai-Ahmedabad (AC) Non stop (Tri-weekly)
• Chennai-Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
• New Delhi-Lucknow Non Stop (Tri-weekly)
• Delhi-Pune (AC) Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
• Howarh-Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
• New Delhi-Allahabad Non Stop (Tri-weekly)
• Sealdah-New Delhi Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
• Kolkata-Amritsar Non Stop (Bi-weekly)
• Bhubaneswar-Delhi Non Stop (weekly)
• Ernakulam-Delhi Non Stop (weekly)

Trains with Increased Frequency

• 2685/2686 Chennai-Mangalore from 3 days to daily.

• 2423/2424 New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express from 5 days to 6 days
• 2443/2444 New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express from 2 days to 4 days
• 7091/7092 Secunderabad-Patna from 2 days to daily
• 2739/2740 Secunderabad-Vishakapatnam Express from 4 days to daily
• 2111/2112 Amravati-Mumbai Express from 3 days to daily
• 2957/2958 Ahmedabad-New Delhi Rajdhani Express from 6 days to daily
• 2149/2150 Pune-Patna Express from 4 days to daily
• 2487/2488 Jogbani-Delhi Express from 5 days to daily
• 2823/2824 Nizammudin-Durg Chhatisgarh Sampark Kranti from 2 days to 3 days
• 2985/2986 Sealdah-Jaipur Express from 2 days to daily
• 2905/2906 Porbander-Howrah (via Hapa) from 2 days to 3 days
• 4207/4208 Delhi-Pratapgarh Padmavat Express from 3 days to daily

Stations to be Made World-Class -

CST Mumbai Nagpur Sealdah New Delhi

Varanasi Kanpur Jaipur Gaya Jn.

Tirupati Bhopal Mangalore Anand Vihar

Ajmer Kolkata Howrah Bhubaneswar

Lucknow Pune Guwahati Chennai Central

Secunderabad Amritsar Ahmedabad Habibganj

Bangalore
Agra Cantt. Majerhat Porbandar
City

Mathura
New Jalpaiguri Brijwasan Tiruvananthapuram Central
Jn.Chandigarh

Baiyapanahali (Bangalore)