Salient Features of the Railway Budget:
- Request increased budgetary support for Rs 5000 cr in fiscal year 2010
- Provisions for new lines at Rs 2921 cr vs Rs 1100 crore
- To spend Rs 1750 crore on gauge conversion
- To set up Northeastern rail development funds
- New 'Izzat' scheme: Poor to get 25-rupee monthly tickets for 100-km travel
- All students will receive a 60% concession on tickets
- Non-stop train services between select cities
- 12 new point-to-point train services
- Safety is our first priority; improved safety signalling system will be in place: Mamata
- Integrated security systems have been placed in 150 sensitive stations
- Recruitment drive to fill-up backlog of SC/ST and women candidates
- 800 new locations for ticket reservations; 3000 new un-reserved ticket counters
- Passengers can buy un-reserved tickets from 5000 post offices
- Multi-functional utilities like bookstores and STD booths will be made available in stations
- Railways will extend a helping hand to physically-challenged people
- We will put at least one doctor in every long-distance train
- Toilets to be similar to ones in aircrafts; facilities for every journey longer than 2 hours
- We have decided to develop 50 world-class stations: Mamata
- The Railway must set an example of inclusive growth: Mamata
- Mamata says the old mindset of economic viability must be substituted with social viability and that Budget should be based on social viability
- Mamata Banerjee presents Railway Budget in Parliament for the third time
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