Ministry of Railways
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Press Releases
Recent press releases from the Ministry of Railways.
Rail Budget 2009-10
- Budget Speech in English.
- Budget Highlights
Interim Budget 2009-10
- Feasibility studies to be conducted to introduce bullet trains in India on the lines of the ones being run in Japan, Germany and France.
- Reduction in the second class and sleeper class fares of all mail/ express and ordinary passenger trains by 2 percent for the ticket costing more than rupees fifty per passenger.
- The Annual Plan for 2009-10 envisages investment of Rs. 37,905 cr. The budgetary support from the General Revenue has been proposed at Rs. 9,600 cr excluding Rs. 1,200 cr to be received from Central Road Fund. The Internal and Extra Budgetary Resource component would, accordingly, comprise 72 percent of the Annual Plan.
- The Indian Railway Finance Corporation, in November 2008, has successfully raised a 10 cr dollar loan, equivalent to Rs 500 cr, at a rate of only 4 percent, from the international market.
- Railways will invest Rs.2,30,000 cr under the 11th Five Year Plan, which is almost three times the amount allocated in the 10th Five Year Plan.
- Agartala, the capital of the North Eastern State of Tripura, has been connected by railway line, which marks the first rail connection to another state capital of a North-eastern state since Independence.
- Nizamuddin-Bangalore Rajdhani tri-weekly
- Laloo gives 2 per cent cut in 1st class AC, 2nd class AC & 3rd AC and AC chair car fares
- Four Railway inquiry call centers to be set up
- Passenger trains to have 22 per cent more capacity
- Laloo announces 43 new trains in Railway Budget
- Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani becomes four days a week
- Steps to improve rail connectivity to Kashmir introduced
- New Delhi-Ahmedabad Rajdhani becomes daily from 6 days a week
- In the past 5 years Rail accidents have come down from 325 to 194
- Indian Railways reported a cash surplus of Rs 25,000 crin the last fiscal year.
- Electrification of 1000 Km of rail lines completed in '08-'09
- Wagon production to be hiked from 6600 units to 15000 units per year
- Sh. Laloo Prasad stated that Railways has earned profit of Rs 90,000 Cr
- Recorded profits without hurting people
- Goods trains to have 78 per cent more capacity
- Railways to invest Rs 2.3 lakh cr over next 5 years
- Laloo glorifies PM, Sonia's leadership
- Kolkata Metro to be expanded
- Mumbai-Bikaner super fast bi-weekly