Presentation

on
Budget-Public welfare

Submitted by:-group 6
 Main headings
• 12 new trains, extensions and increase in frequencies announced, 117
would be flagged off by the end of March 2010.
• recruitment policy of the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) has
been reviewed.
• The Izzat Scheme, concessions to press correspondents and extension
of students’ concessions.
• Mushkil Aasaan mobile vans.
• Railways is projected to spend a record Rs 1,302 crore in 2010-11 on
passenger amenities.
• Janata Ahar, economically priced food in many stations.
• Bottled Fresh Water will be provided at stations at much cheaper rates.
• SMS updates of reservation status and punctuality of trains.
• Double-decker train-sets matching the best in global standards, in two
trains each from Delhi and Kolkata as a pilot project.
 Safety and security
• Safety and security never sleeps and zero tolerance for accidents is
our vision and mission.
• Anti-collision device (ACD) and train protection warning system.
• Automatic fire and smoke detection system in 20 pairs of long-
distance trains as pilot project.

Sports
• To set up five Sports Academies.
• Shambhu Mitra Cultural Complex with performing arts and a music
academy at Howrah.
 Staff Welfare & Health
• “House for All”, that will provide residences to all railway employees
in the next ten years.
• two Memorandum of Understanding for setting up of hospitals and
educational institutions on surplus railway land.
• 522 hospitals and diagnostic centres,50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 10
residential schools on the pattern of NavodayaVidyalaya, model
degree colleges and technical and management institutions of national
importance will be set up.
• Outpatient Departments (OPD) and diagnostic centres.
• To set up 50 crèches for children of women employees and 20 hostels.
• The scope of safety-related retirement scheme is proposed to be
expanded to cover all safety category staff with a grade pay of Rs
1800.
• propose to extend the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to
all licensed porters, vendors and hawkers, who are from
the unorganised sector and are socially challenged