- Lalu Prasad begins fifth Rail Budget on lighter note
- Lalu hints at no fare hike this Budget
- More Garib Raths likely this year
- Fin min may scale down Rail budgetary support
- 150 more trains, escalators for Mumbai stations
- It will be 'please-all Budget', says Yashwant Sinha
- Himachal to launch agitation if ignored in Rail Budget
- Rail Budget to bring basket of comforts: Lalu
- Nitish urges Lalu to complete rail projects in Bihar
- Railway freight earnings go up by 12.34 per cent
- Aluminium coaches for goods trains soon
- People suspecting us can see records
- Railways will be linked by Mar '09 to call centres
- Display boards at railway stations
- Multi-purpose smart Mumbai cards to be introduced
- Ticket reservation possible from anywhere
- Railways profit due to UPA govt policies
- Additional Rs 20 bn earned on freight services
- Achieved 790 tonnes pay-load target
- Sitting companies given railway licences
- Increased passenger train numbers
- We have surcharged only in peak season
- Railways set up new profit records in 2007-08
- Rs 14,000 crore profit in loading
- Turned the Railways around into a profit-making organization
- Rs 49,250 crore invested in new projects
- Railways has done tremendous work
- Last year, railway profit ratio touched 76%
- Our achievements like an open book, everybody is happy
- Lalu: Customer is our God
- Lalu: Indian Railways is attaining popularity
- No ticket queues in 2 years
- In talks with foreign cos for new wagon designs
- Lifts and escalators at 50 stations
- High-level platforms in 135 stations
- Rs 40 bn kept for on discharge-free train toilets
- New coaches in all Rajdhani trains by 2010
- New coaches in Shatabdi trains by 2011
- Mulling ticket confirmation via mobile phone
- Plan to provide ticket booking via mobile phone
- Smart card system to all railways
- Electrification of more routes
- Raise platform levels in phased manner
- Railways to issue wait-listed e-tickets
- 50 big stations to have lifts, escalators
- Stainless steel coaches for mail, express trains
- Only stainless steel coaches to be produced after 2010
- To up auto ticket sale machines to 6,000 in 2 yrs
- Automated ticket vending machines at 250 now
- Upgradation of 203 medium-level platforms
- Upgradation of 281 low-level platforms
- New policy for wagon leasing
- Touch screen, colour TVs at railway stations
- Pvt cos can make terminals on rail land
- Electrification of more routes in North India
- CCTVs at major railway stations
- Heightened security at sensitive stations
- NDLS, Mumbai Cent, Secund'bad, Patna to become world-class
- All unmanned crossings to be manned now
- 16,548 old rail tracks to be renewed
- Ticket confirmation via mobiles likely
- Free season tickets for girl students till graduation
- SC,STs given more jobs than quota alloted to them
- Container train operators to be up to 50-55 trains
- Gangmen to man level crossings
- Mother Child Health Express to be started
- Staff benefit fund to be upped 10 times in 2009
- 50% concession for AIDS patients travelling in trains
- New rail coach manufacturing unit in Kerala
- N Railway hospital in Delhi to be fully AC
- Divisional railway hospitals in Jaipur, Hubli to be upgraded
- One more rail captive power plant in Bihar
- 10 more new Garib Raths, 53 new trains
- Coolies promoted to gangmen
- Amravati-Mumbai express new train bi-weekly
- Machhlipatnam-Bangalore new train tri-weekly
- New weekly Varanasi-Rameswaram express
- Khajuraho-Delhi new train tri-weekly
- New weekly Puri-Darbhanga express
- Indore-Udaipur via Ratlam new train tri-weekly
- Ranchi-Bhagalpur new train tri-weekly
- Chennai-Salem new train daily
- New daily Ahmedabad-Patan express
- New Itarsi-Katni passenger train daily
- Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani to run tri-weekly
- New train Amritsar-Kochuveli Express weekly
- New train Malda-Patna Express tri-weekly
- New train Saharsha- Janasebharan Expess weekly
- Special train between Pune-Delhi for Commonwealth in Oct
- 155 km new lines seen completed in FY08
- Bangalore-Coimbatore train extended to Ernakalum
- Varanasi-Ranchi via Rourkela train up to Sambhalpur
- Mathura-Lucknow train extended to Patna
- Bhubaneshwar-Mumbai express bi-weekly
- Proposal to spend Rs 6.5 bn on metro transport projects
- Proposal to spend Rs 17.3 bn on new lines
- Kurla to Howrah train bi-weekly
- Bagalkota-Jaswantpur train now daily
- Salsa-Amritsar Garib Rath tri-weekly
- New Delhi-Jammu Tawi train now daily
- TV, internet services on trains in future
- Pandemonium in Lok Sabha over train allocation
- Speaker asks Lalu to lay down Part 1 of speech
- MPs start walking out as Lalu continues
- Sleeper fare to be cut by 5%
- AC-I fares to be cut by 7%, AC-II by 4%, AC-III by 3%
- 5% reduction in 2nd class fares beyond 50 km
Live Highlights Rail Budget 2008
Railways set record with Rs 25,000 crore profit: Lalu
Presenting his fifth Rail Budget in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Railways Minister Lalu Prasad said that the Railways had set up new profit records in 2007-08 attaining a profit of Rs 25,000 crore.
Everybody is happy with our performance, said Lalu. He also added that the Railways had done tremendous work in the year 2007-08.
He said that operating ratio of the Railways was at 76% and that Rs 49,250 crore invested into new railway projects.
Productivity of Railway assets has been constantly increasing, Lalu said.
Railways profited due to the UPA government's policies, he said.
Railway plan size increased from Rs 11,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore in the last four years.
Number of passenger trains were increased in the peak season.
Railways attained 790 tonne payload target in the year 2007-08
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Railway Budget 2008 : कभी किराया नहीं बढ़ाया लालू ने
India Budget 2008
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