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RAILWAY BUDGET 2010-11 Highlights

1. Mamata Banerjee ends her budget speech
2. No hike in passenger fares
3. Relief for cancer patients in sleeper class
4. Press concessions extended to family and dependents upto 20 years
5. Concessions for film industry, technicians
6. Railways to employ ex-servicemen for railway security
7. National High Speed rail authority to be set up
8. Bharat Teerth train in memory of Tagore to connect 16 destinations in India
9. FY11 total gross earnings Rs 88,281 Crs
10. Karma Bhoomi trains introduced for unorganised sector workers
11. Metro Railway to be expanded in Kolkata on priority
12. Rs 4,411 cr allocated for new rail lines
13. No forcible acquisition of land, one member of land losing family to get a job.
14. Rail link to Bangladesh proposed
15. Railways to borrow Rs 9120 Crs this fiscal
16. FY11 working spend Rs 87100 Crs
17. 54 new trains to be introduced in FY11
18. FY11 Gross Budgetary Support Rs 15,800 Crs
19. FY11 dividend liability Rs 6600 Crs
20. FY11 Plan Outlay at Rs 41,426 Crs
21. Tourist trains to be launched on 16 routes
22. Pension appropriation to account for Rs. 14,500 Crs
23. Funding for Metro Rail projects increased by 55%
24. FY11 Gross traffic receipts Rs 94,800 Crs
25. Impact of 6th Pay Commission at Rs 55,000 Crs
26. Non-core business revenue estimated at Rs 1000 Crs
27. Double-decker trains to be launched on pilot basis
28. Have save Rs 2000 Crs because of austerity drive
29. To start door to door service for freight movement
30. Premium Tatkal sevice for parcel, freight movements
31. Dedicated passenger corridors planned
32. 10 more Duronto trains to be introduced
33. Freight on food grain and kerosene cut by Rs 100 per wagon
34. Railways profit at Rs 1328 Crs
35. Routes of 21 trains to be extended
36. Railway exam fees to be withdrawn for minorities, women and OBCs
37. Private operators can run special freight trains
38. Dividend to exchequer at Rs 6608 Crs
39. 2 freight corridors planned in Maharashtra
40. 5 wagon factories planned
41. 101 new suburban trains for Mumbai
42. Service charge on sleeper class cut to Rs.10
43. Service charge on AC Class cut from Rs.40 to Rs.20
44. Rae Bareli coach factory work to start within a year
45. Chittaranjan Locomotive Works to be modernised
46. State of the art loco pilot training centres proposed
47. No change in freight rates
48. Housing for all raiway employees in next 10 years
49. 50 creches to be set up for railways women employees
50. 381 diagonistic centres throughout India to be set up alongside hospitals
51. Proposed Rabindra museum at Howrah, Geetanjali museum at Bolpur
52. Special trains for commonwealth games
53. Railways to provide increased job opportunities for sportsmen
54. Plan to raise 20,000Crs in one year
55. Railway protection force to be augmented, Mahila Vahini to be introduced
56. Rs 1300Crs for passenger amenities
57. 117 new trains to be flagged out by March 31
58. All level crossings to be manned within next 5 years
59. Latest technology to be deployed to prevent accidents
60. E-ticket mobile vans to be introduced
61. Modern toilets to be introduced in most stations
62. Six drinking water bottling plants planned
63. Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route planned
64. Special drive to improve passenger amenities
65. Limited funds, constraints line addition
66. Major jump being planned to complete 1000 km of new railway lines in one year
67. Will involve all railway unions in development
68. New business models with public-private partnership needed
69. Railways not to be privatised
70. Special task force to clear proposals
71. Business community should come forward and form partnerships with railways
72. Our objective is inclusive growth
73. Goals broken up into short, medium and long-term
74. I want to help everbody within the limited infrastructure, says Mamata
75. Commercial viability not the only criteria
76. Mamata begins budget speech in Lok Sabha
77. Mamata Banerjee set to begin her Railway Budget speech shortly
78. Mamata Banerjee set to begin her Railway Budget speech shortly
79. White paper on Indian Railways' vision 2020 presented to Lok Sabha
80. Speaker disallows adjournment motion but allows special discussion on price rise
81. Mamata reaches Parliament to present Rail Budget 2010
82. What accounting system has Mamata used for Budget: Lalu Prasad Yadav
83. Mamata leaves for Parliament to present Rail Budget
84. Mamata has already introduced 28 trains from West Bengal in the last one year
85. Opposition corners govt on price rise
86. Government may hike freight rates by 7 to 8%
87. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to present Railway Budget 2010-11 in the Lok Sabha any time after 11.30
88. No hikes in passenger fares anticipated