Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Rail Budget

Rail Budget

New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday presented Railway Budget next fiscal year with the promise of a new business model to encourage private investment along with the social commitment, but without privatization.

“Our goal is for all-round growth,” said Lok Sabha, adding that the primary consideration in the responsibility this year’s budget is social rather than commercial viability of projects.

“We have set our goals in the Vision 2020 document and we will achieve it,” the minister said, referring to a document uncovered in December, which aimed at making the more than 30,000 kilometers of roads to the lines of dual or multiple against 18,000 km today.

“It’s the fact that the administrative and procedural delays discourage potential investors. We will need to overcome this, and I to form a special task force for this mission,” she said.

“The structure will be created for a new model to work,” she said. “But we will not have privatization of railways. Railway will remain with the Indian government.”

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Highlights the speech:

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The first railway line in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to link Port Blair to Diglipur, beyond the town of North Andamans.

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Railway master plan for the northeast region.

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Railways to run special train to Bangladesh in the centenary of the birth of Tagore’s 150th.

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Reported net profit of Rs.1, 328 billion rupees in 2009-10

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10 axes in vehicles that will be

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Twenty-two million CFLs provide energy for lighting and already distributed

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Policy decision to employ a family member who land is requisitioned for rail projects

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Between North and South, between East and West corridors earmarked for shipment to the creation of

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Building corridors high-speed passenger rail envisioned

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More multi-functional hospitals that will arise

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Educational facilities that will be created for children of 80,000 women

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Special facilities that will be established for gangmen

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Licensed insurance facilities to the porters as part of the railroad and corporate social responsibility

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Research center rail that will arise with the Indian Institute of Technology and the Defense Research and Development Organization

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Will include trade unions in policy-making

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Coach Factory Chennai integral to the further modernization of

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New vehicle repair shop in Mumbai

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Design, development and test center for rail wheels in Bangalore

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Rs 1,302 billion rupees to provide amenities to passengers in the budget 2010-11 against Rs 923 billion rupees last year.

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Allocation for the establishment of new lines has increased from Rs 2848 crore to Rs 4411 crore.

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Total traffic for the receipt of 2010-11, bound to Rs 94.765 billion rupees.

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Cargo loading target for 2010-11 fixed at 944 million tons and 54 million tons more than the current year revised target.

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Communication is the key to the growth of India.

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It is time for businesses to cooperate with the rail lines.

Rail out 10-year plan ‘Vision 2020′

Railways open to the public private partnership model in the projects.

Need to make the investment policies and friendly; investment proposals should be cleared within 100 days

It will be a special task force set up businesses in the clear within 100 days.

New anti-collision devices, and improve traffic signals along 880 kilometers of the road.

Of 17,000 crossings unmanned 13,000 will be available within five years to avoid accidents.

Railroad has plans to issue e-tickets mobile vans in hospitals and universities.

Rail access to space through the parking multi-layered, Pakistan People’s Party (the partnership between the public and private).

Cheap and will be provided with safe drinking water at all stations, and plans to open six bottling plants.

Railway arriving with a special campaign to be the best amenities.

117 trains will be a signal to start within seven months.

1000 kilometers of railway lines to be completed in one year.

We want to strengthen the protection of the railways (RPF), but the law and order is the subject of the State. We have very few members of the RPF. RPF is not enough to take care of security.

Rail is proposed to establish five sports academies in Delhi, Secunderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Railways will be a key partner of the Commonwealth Games. We will run special trains for the Commonwealth Games.

Rabindra Museum in Howrah Geetanjali and museum in Bolpur – both in the state of West Bengal – to celebrate Tagore ’s125th birth anniversary that will arise.

At the same time, she also asked the private sector to refrain from what he described as “negative stereotypes approach” in dealing with the Indian Railways. “I’m sorry to say this, this mentality has not changed.”

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