Union Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda presented his maiden Railway Budget in Parliament on Tuesday. Here are the highlights of this Budget.

* No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges



* Bullet train in Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector



* Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains



* Plan to hike speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors



* Online booking to support 7,200 tickets per minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously



* Reservation system to be revamped, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularised



* Online platform for unreserved tickets



* Combo parking-platform tickets at stations



* Women RPF Constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted



* Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations



* Battery operated cars for differently-abled and senior citizens at major stations



* Feedback services through IVRS on quality of food



* Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations



* Cleanliness budget up by 40 per cent over last year



* CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness



* Setting up of corpus fund for stations’ upkeep; RO drinking water in some stations and trains



* Automatic door closing in mainline and sub-urban coaches



* 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years



* FDI in railway projects, except in operations



* FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure



* Office-on-Wheels: Internet & workstation facilities on select trains



* WiFi in A1, A category stations and in select trains



* Railways university for technical and non-technical subjects



* Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model



* Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered



* Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10 per cent in 2000-01 to 23 per cent in 2012-13



* Solar energy to be tapped at major stations



* Highest ever plan outlay of Rs. 65,455 crore for 2014-15



* Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs. 149,176 crore.



New Trains



Jansadharan Trains



i) Ahmedabad-Darbhanga Jansadharan Express via Surat



Ii Jaynagar-Mumbai Jansadharan Express



ii) Mumbai-Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express



iv) Saharasa-Anand Vihar Jansadharan Express via Motihari



v) Saharasa-Amritsar Jansadharan Express



Premium Trains



i) Mumbai Central-New Delhi Premium AC Express



ii) Shalimar-Chennai Premium AC Express



iii) Secunderabad-Hazrat Nizamuddin Premium AC Express 6



iv) Jaipur-Madurai Premium Express



v) Kamakhya-Bengaluru Premium Express



AC ExpressTrains



i) VijayawadaNewDelhiAPExpress (Daily)



ii) LokmanyaTilak(T)-Lucknow (Weekly)



iii) Nagpur-Pune (Weekly)



iv) Nagpur-Amritsar (Weekly)



v) Naharlagun-NewDelhi (Weekly)



vi) Nizamuddin-Pune (Weekly)



Express Trains



i) Ahmedabad-Patna Express (Weekly)via Varanasi



ii) Ahmedabad Chennai Express (Biweekly)via Vasai Road



iii) Bengaluru -Mangalore Express (Daily)



iv) Bengaluru -Shimoga Express (Biweekly)



v) Bandra(T)-Jaipur Express (Weekly) via Nagda, Kota



vi) Bidar-Mumbai Express (Weekly)



vii) Chhapra-Lucknow Express (Tri weekly) via Ballia, Ghazipur, Varanasi



viii) Ferozpur-Chandigarh Express (6 days a week)



ix) Guwahati-Naharlagun Intercity Express (Daily)



x) Guwahati-Murkongselek Intercity Express (Daily)



xi) Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Express (Weekly)



xii) Hapa-Bilaspur Express (Weekly)via Nagpur



xiii) Hazur Saheb Nanded-Bikaner Express (Weekly)



xiv) Indore-Jammu Tawi Express (Weekly)



xv) Kamakhya-Katra Express (Weekly) via Darbhanga



xvi) Kanpur-Jammu Tawi Express (Biweekly)



xvii) Lokmanya Tilak(T)-Azamgarh Express (Weekly)



xviii) Mumbai_Kazipeth Express (Weekly) via Balharshah



xix) Mumbai-Palitana Express (Weekly)



xx) New Delhi Bhatinda Shatabdi Express (Biweekly)



xxi) New Delhi-Varanasi Express (Daily)



xxii) Paradeep-Howrah Express (Weekly)



xxiii) Paradeep-Visakhapatnam Express (Weekly)



xxiv) Rajkot-Rewa Express (Weekly)



xxv) Ramnagar-Agra Express (Weekly)



xxvi) Tatanagar Baiyyappanahali (Bengaluru) Express (Weekly)



xxvii) Visakhapatnam-Chennai Express (Weekly)



Passenger Trains



i) Bikaner-Rewari Passenger (Daily)



ii) Dharwad-Dandeli Passenger (Daily)via Alnavar



iii) Gorakhpur-Nautanwa Passenger (Daily)



iv) Guwahati-Mendipathar Passenger (Daily)



v) Hatia-Rourkela Passenger 7



vi) Byndoor-Kasaragod Passenger (Daily)



vii) Rangapara North-Rangiya Passenger (Daily)



viii) Yesvantpur-Tumkur Passenger (Daily)



MEMU services



i) Bengaluru-Ramanagaram 6 days a week (3 Pairs)



ii) Palwal-Delhi-Aligarh



DEMU services



i) Bengaluru-Neelmangala (Daily)



ii) Chhapra-Manduadih (6days a week) via Ballia



iii) Baramula-Banihal (Daily)



iv) Sambalpur-Rourkela (6 days a week)



v) Yesvantpur-Hosur (6 days a week)



Source:The hindu