SAFETY TOP PRIORITIES IN RAIL BUDGET | No Increase in Rail Fares | MONTHLY PASS UPTO 100 KMS FOR RS 25

• Tatkal tickets charge slashed from Rs.150 to Rs.100
• 12 non-stop trains to be introduced
• Tickets now available at 5000 post offices
• People’s food will be provided at stations
• ‘Izzat’: Monthly ticket pass for Rs.25 only to travel upto 100 kms
• Increase number of women commandos in key routes
• Tatkal booking period to be reduced to 48 hours instead of 5 days

• New train information system will be started in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata
• Fifty mobile rail ticket vans will be introduced
• ATM facilities on 200 mid and small sized railways stations
• One doctor is to be posted on long distance trains
• New factory in Mamata’s home state, West Bengal, for making 500 state-of-the-art coaches annually
• 7 nursing colleges to be introduced to be provid employment to railway spouses
• There will be cold storages and cargo facilities of perishables
• Fifty world class railway stations to be developed on public-private partnership model
• 309 out of 375 stations will be developed through modern facilities
• Fifty stations at tourist and religious places to have integrated facilities
• Infotainment facilities to be provided on Rajdhani Express for long distance passengers
• Air-conditioned double-decker trains to be introduced for inter-city travel
• SMS updates for wait-listed passengers
• 200 automatic vending machines to be introduced at key stations for selling

Quotes from Mamata Banerjee’s Rail Budget speech in Lok Sabha

“People all over the country have high expectations from the railway budget.”

“Time has come when our economic and social philosophers have to change their old mindset of economic viability and replace it with social viability and upliftment.”

“Fifty stations will be developed into world class facilities.”