‘warm alway Bigs 206-15 Hchihts POF Donoas HIGHLIGHTS: 1) No inerease in passenger fares and freight charges in Mumbai — Ahmedabad sector 3) Plan to hike speed of trains to 160 200 Kmph in 9 sectors 4) — Online platform for unreserved tickets 5) Online booking to support 7,200 tickets per minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users simultaneously 6) Combo parking-platform tickets at stations 2 4,000 women constables to be recruited to ensure personal safety of women; 17,000 RPF constables to provide safety to passengers 8) Cleanliness budget up by 40% over the last year; CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness 9) Battery-operated cars for differently-abled and senior citizens at major stations 10) Retiring room facility to be extended to all the stations 11) Feedback services through IVRS on food quality 12) Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations 13) Setting up of corpus fund for stations’ upkeep; RO drinking water in some stations & trains 14) Automatic door closing in mainline and suburban coaches 15) 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years 16) FDI in railway projects, except in operations 17) FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure atatexthiml charsel=ul-8,%69Cpt20syle%9D% 22padkngV3A%20 te %200pr%IBY.20mar gn -2AY-200px9.98%.200uine%eIAN2ONONENSBVZDIS- sy... 1M‘wesnos Raalway Budget 2014-15 H ghlighs POF Downlcas 18) Internet and workstation facilities on selected trains; Wi-Fi in Al, A category stations and in selected trains 19) Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects 20) Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model 21) Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered 22) Loss per passenger per kilometer up from 10% in 2000-01 to 23% in 2012-13 Study Daily Current Affairs here 23) Solar energy to be tapped at major stations 24) Highest ever plan layout of Rs.65,455 Crore for 2014-15 25) Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 Crore; Receipts in FY1S pegged at Rs. 1.64 lakh Crore 26) Indian railways to become the largest freight carrier in the world 27) Social obligation of railways in 2013-14 was Rs. 20,000 Crore 28) Gross traffic receipts in 2013-14 was Rs. 12,35,558 Crore; Operating ratio was 94% 29) Indian railways spent Rs. 41,000 Crore in laying of 3700 Km of new lines in 10 years 30) Fare vision will bring in Rs.8000 Crore; need another Rs.9000 Crore for golden quadrilateral project 31) With 12,500 trains, railways move 23million passengers every day 32) Separate housekeeping wing at 50 major stations 33) Mechanized laundry will be introduced atatexthiml charsel=ul-8,%9Cpt20syle%9D% 22padkngV3A%20 te %200px 9B. 20mar gn -2AY-200px9.38%200ulineTeIAN-2ONONENSBYZDS-sy.. 2M‘wesnos Raalway Budget 2014-15 H ghlighs POF Downlcas 34) Dedicated freight corridor in eastern and western corridors 35) 5400 unmanned level crossing removed 36) Tourist trains to be introduced to link all major places of tourist interests across the country 37) Ultrasonic system to detect problem in track 38) Diamond Quadrilateral project of high speed trains to connect all major metros 39) GIS mapping and digitization of railway Land. Extension of logistics support to various e- Commerce companies 40) Facilitate milk through rail; Special milk transportation trains in association with Amul and National Dairy Association Board 41) One ticket to reach from Delhi to Srinagar. Uddhampur to Banihal by bus and Banihal to Srinagar by train, 42) Train connectivity to Char Dham 43) Paperless office of Indian railways in 5 years; digital reserve charts at stations 44) Ready-to-eat meals of reputed brands to be introduced in phased manners New Services New Trains +17 Premium trains + 38 Express trains + 10P + 4MEMU + 3DEMU ssenger trains Extension and Increase in frequency atatexthiml charsel=ul-8,%69CpM20syle%9D%22padkngV3A%20 te %-200px IBY. 20mar gn 2AY-200px9.8%.20oulineTeIAN-2ONONEN.SBYZDIS-sy.. 3M‘wesnos Raalway Budget 2014-15 H ghlighs POF Downlcas + 3 Extension of trains + 3 increase in frequency Budget Estimates 2014-15 Freight loading of 1101 MT, 51 MT more than 2013-14 Growth in passenger traffic — 2% Freight Earnings — 1,05,770 cr. Passenger Eamings ~ 44,645 cr, after revenue foregone of 610 cr on account of rollback in monthly season ticket fares Total Receipts — 1,64,374 er; Total Expenditure — 1,49,176 er; Pension estimated at 28,850 cr. Dividend payment estimated at 9,135 er. Operating Ratio to be 92.5%, an improvement of 1% over 2013-14 atatexthiml charsel=ut-8,%9CpM20syle%9D% 22padkng¥3A%20 te %200px IBY. 20mar gn 2AY-200px%.8%.200uineTeIAN2ONONEN.SBYZDS-sy.. 44