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 Home Railway Budget 2009 Laloo's Pre Budget    
Highlights on lalu's Pre Budget
  • Railways has generated the revenue of 90,000cr in last 5 years
  • Allocation of Rs10,500 cr on pension requirement for railway employees
  • Container traffic to show steep fall
  • Delhi- Mumbai freight corridor initiated
  • Railways to invest 35,900 cr in year 2009
  • Railway connectivity to Jammu and Kashmir initiated
  • Passenger growth up to 14%
  • Passenger trains to have 22% more capacity
  • More efficient good wagons to be launched
  • Good wagons to show 78% more capacity
  • Call center setup for railway inquire
  • Electrification of 1000 km of rail lines completed
  • Wagon production would show hike from 6600 to 15000
  • Railways to invest 2,30,000cr in 11th plan
  • Revenues show rise by 39 paise a tonne/km since 2001
  • Cost has dropped by 7 paise a tonne/ km since 2001
  • Railways to receive loan at 4%
  • Accidents shows drop down from 325 in 03-04 to 194 in 07-08
  • Railways shows grown freight at rate of 8% over last 5 years
  • Research and planing on bullet trains in India
  • FY10 operating ratio at 88%
  • Mumbai Bikaner super fast bi-weekly
  • 2% deduction in AC and mail train fares
  • 43 new trains on charts
  • Laid 1100 km new train lines
Citizen's Reactions
Mumbai - Chennai sector will always be a God..
Easwar Raghunathan
mamata ji railway budjet is very good.Newest is..
sushil singh
IT SEEMS THAT gUJARAT HAS NOT JUSTIFIED AS THERE..
Yashwant Bhatt
Mamta: Priority to improvement in amenities..
rajiv tensionable
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