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Indian Railways Budget for 2008-09
Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented the Indian Railway Budget for 2008-09 in Parliament on Tuesday.
Rail Budget 08-09 at a Glance. Here we present some highlights from this year's Railway Budget.
"We are scoring goal after goal in every match. Every child in the country will now say "Chak de, Railways" ... We have not only dreamed but turned the dreams in to reality. Mungeri lal ke haseen sapne have been turned into reality and are being implemented."
- Railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadav Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's Railway Budget Speech 2008-09 Coverage. (PDFs are available for downloads in both English and Hindi. Visit this link for more info)
Now with elections next year and a much larger cash surplus than ever before, Indian Railwyas minister Lalu prasad yadav responded with a railway budget that was good not only for poor of the country but for almost everyone. The Railway Minister on Tuesday announced cuts in passenger fares, better jobs for coolies and enhanced ticketing options, while refusing to hike freight rates.
Indian Railways performance in year 2007-08. - For year 2007-08 Net Revenue expected at Rs. 18,416 cr and surplus after payment of dividend expected at Rs.13,534 cr.
- Both Growth in passenger earnings and expected growth in goods earnings of 14%.
- Most importently double digit growth in traffic earnings was maintained in first nine months of previous year.
Indian Railways Budget estimates for Year 2008-09
- Freight loading target for this year is project at 850 million tones.
- Revenues in Freight earnings to be Rs.52,700 cr and Passenger earnings to be Rs.21,681 cr for comming year is targeted.
- Cash surplus before Dividend to be Rs.24,783 cr after making an ad-hoc provision of nearly Rs.5000 cr for anticipated recommendations of the VI Central Pay Commission.
Indian Railways Annual Plan 2008-09
With over more than Rs. 25,000 Cr. cash surplus Indian Railways minister lalu prasad has unveiled highest ever annual investment plan of Rs 37,500 crore during year 2008-09. While presenting the budget to the parliament he said "Under this plan priority has been given to enhancement of rail capacity, modernisation of the railway, throughput enhancement on high capacity routes, traffic facility work as and expansion and development of the network"
Other major improvements in annual plan includes Track renewal of Rs.3,600 cr; Bridges renovation and maintenance at Rs. 600 cr; Signal & Telecommunication works worth Rs.1,520 cr; Budget for Road over/under bridges of Rs. 700 cr and manning of unmanned level crossings at Rs.600 cr.
Indian Railways budget 08-09 Charts, Facts & Figures.
 
Bar 1: '06-07 Actual Bar 2: '07-08 (Budget) Bar 3: 07-08 (Revised) Bar 4: '08-09 (Budget) Graphs and Information on Railways Budget Detailed information and complete coverage of Indian Railways budget
Rail Budget 2008-09 Glimpses. - Passenger fares are slashed in new railway budget including 7% reduction in AC First Class to fight competition from low cost airlines. AC second Class fares are cut by 4% and 5% discount on 2nd class in Mail & Express trains is announced.
- 10 new garib raths and 53 new Trains are announced. Few routes are extended and frequency increased. Bihar gets 16 new trains.
- Proposed improvements in Indian Railways - New joy ride for passengers.
- Indian Railways posts record $6.3Billion surplus.
- Indian Railways reduces freight rates on oil traffic by 5%.
- Rs. 5000 cr is allocated for implementing pay commission report.
- Indian Railways present highest-ever annual plan of Rs. 37,500 cr.
- Indian Railways targets 100% jump in cement transportation by 2011-12.
- Free Travel for girl students up to graduation.
- Vision 2025 to be Finalised within Six Months to lay Foundation for Resurgent Railways.
- Booking of Rail Tickets Through Mobile Phones
- New Railway Coach Factory in Kerala
The new diesel locomotive factory in Bihar
Indian Railways has decided to start a new joint venture company with a private sector player to start a new locomotive factory near Marhowra in Bihar in near future. Indian Railways plans to buy at least one-third of its requirement of diesel locomotives from this new joint venture unit. This new joint venture unit controlled by a private sector firm will produce only diesel locomotives and other spares related to diesel locomotive technology and needs of Indian Railways.
The RFQ guarantees that the railways will buy atleast 100 locomotives a year for the next seven to 10 years from the Marhowra facility. It also expects to acquire another 250 diesel locomotives a year from the state-owned Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi and other locomotive works and IR factories all across India.
Booking E tickets online from Indian Railways
E- Ticket
How to book? To book your e-ticket, log in at www.irctc.co.in and select the e-ticket option. Indian railways now has an e ticketing facility. Book your ticket, pay using Visa or Mastercard and simply print the ticket or ERS (Electronic Reservation slip) on your own computer.
Carry it with you along with your stated ID and you're on the train!!
IR accepts the following as valid ID
Voter Identity Card
Passport
PAN card
Driving License
Central/ state Govt issued Photo ID card.
When you are travelling ~ You must carry the proper identity card as given during booking. ~ Your name must be on the reservation chart. ~ You must carry a platform ticket with him.
As yet this is a limited service but hopefully this will be extended as thing progress.
At present only confirmed / RAC tickets can be booked through e-Reservation,
For more info see here E-tickets http://www.irctc.co.in/e-Ticketing.htm
To book you'll have to register here Online Booking (tip : the online booking form demands a zip code and will only except a 6 digit Indian type pin code, make one up or copy from the net, it works no problem just a glitch in the booking form) Important note - You will be treated as ticketless and not be authorised to board the train if your/ the passenger's name does not appear on the chart.
-e-tickets will be available only for confirmed/ RAC tickets at this point of time.
-If the status is WL (neither Confirmed nor RAC) at the time of booking, the ticket will not be booked. - A fine of Rs 50 on forgetting ERS
Lalu Prasad Yadav wants Indian Railways to TOP
Lalu Prasad Yadav wants Indian Railways to TOP
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad wants the indian railway service to be the best service of its kind all around the world. And to achieve their target work already has began.
Mr Prasad, inaugurated the Ratlam-Neemuch broad gauge line. Undenighingly after earning a profit of Rs20,000 crores and bring limping indianrailways back on track. Further emphasis is being put up by laloo prasad yadav on expanding railway business under which the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor Project will likely becompleted at a cost of Rs 30,000 crore within the approximate time limit of five years.
Eanhancement of goods capacity has been given a lot of priority by the indian railways according to the new plan. The new Eastern Corridor would run from Ludhiana to Howrah while its western counterpart would run from New Delhi to Mumbai.
The corridors have separate electrified up and down tracks for the better functioning and working of the goods trains. According to Laloo Prasad Yadav reight corridors will be constructed between Mumbai-Chennai and Chennai-Howrah.
Railways Cyber Cafe in Mumbai
The Indian railway-run cyber cafe at Western Railway's Mumbai Central Station is the first ever cyber cafe in a railway station in India. It not only provides Internet facilities in the Indian railway platform it also helps the poeple using it and see if they want to use it for obtaining tickets.
Indian Railways' first -- and Mumbai's first -- railway station cyber cafe at Western Railway's Mumbai Central station was inaugrated by RailTel, a PSU of the Ministry of Indian Railways. Nearly 12 lakhs was expenditure by the general manager in the station . It is projected that there will be more than 12 cybercafes in upcomming days in the stations in the upcomming financial year.
The current project consists 82 railway stations including Churchgate, Bandra, Borivali, Boisar, Vapi, Valsad, Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Indore, and Ujjain along the Western railway route; and Dadar, Lonavala, Pune, and Nagpur along the Central railway route are included in the first wave of implementation.
The cyber cafes are meant not only for earning additional revenue for the railways but also for providing passengers with better facilities as mentioned by the staff. It is likely to reduce queues and promote online reservation thus getting more ease to the passengers.
About 500 railway stations in the country are projected to have have wi-fi in the near future too by Railtel.
Indian Railways Rail Yatri Niwas
New Delhi RAIL YATRI NIWAS
The facility of Rail Yatri Niwas is available to rail passengers on advance reservation could be done by sending full amount of the required accommodation by money order in the name of Chief Manager. Rail Yatri Niwas, at New Delhi Railway Station or demand draft in favor of FA & CAO/ Northern Railway. For more information on this please contact the phone numbers given below. (Checkout / Check in time: 9 AM) Important Phone Numbers 01011- 23233484 02011- 23233561 RAILWAY YATRI NIWAS: HOWRAH KOLKATA Tel: 2660-1742/43
AC double Rs. 350. NAC double Rs. 250. NAC 3 bedded Rs. 275.
53 bedded dormitory Rs. 75 per head.
For holders of tickets for 200 km. at least. Advance Booking: Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd.
3, Koilaghat Street (Ground Floor), Kolkata - 700 001
Phone: 033 - 22439045 Fax: 033 - 22439046 RAILWAY YATRI NIWAS UJJAIN STATION ROAD TEL :91-734 2555454 Neelkanthi Krishna Dham Yatri Niwas. Haryana Tourism With an area of 2 acres, it is around 154 kilometres from Delhi and lies in the district of Kurukshetra. , a few kms from the Railway Station. Tel: 01744 31615 Kerela Tourism Tourism Yatri Niwas go the link below www.hotelskerala.com/ktdc/yatrinivasthrissur.htm
Carrying pet Dog in Indian Railways
It is allowed to carry dogs now on Indian railways but only in First Class, both air-conditioned and none air-conditioned, though non air-condition first-class compartments are rare now a days.
If you want to carry dog in first class you also have to have all berths booked, 4 in a cabin or 2 in a coupe (and you'd be guarenteed a coupe). It is for the convinence of other passengers travelling that you book all the tickets in a coupe or all the 4 berths in a compartment. it is also good from the secutiy and privacy point of view.
The charge for the dog is very small, about Rs50 only and you can pay this at the time of buying the tickets.
Air conditioned First Class (1A) is very expensive, but the old non air-conditioned First Class (FC) is the bargain of Indian Railways. A wonderful FC service if you want to travel anywhere in India during winters. -
A passenger can take pet dog along with him in AC First Class or First Class only, provided he/she reserves either a two berth or a four berth compartment exclusively for his/her use, paying the due charges depending upon the type of train. -
Passenger traveling in other classes are not permitted to carry the dog along with them. But the dog can be booked and carried in the Luggage/Brake Van paying the charges depending upon the type of train. Specially designed Dog Boxes are available in the Brake Van for this purpose. -
Passengers may contact the Parcel Office to book their pet dogs. Passengers detected carrying dogs unbooked will be charged as per extant rules.
Jaisalmer-Bikaner train introduced
A new train started service yesterday between Bikaner and Jaisalmer.
Train 4704 departs Bikaner daily at 06:40, then Gajner at 07:26 and gets to Jaisalmer at 13:45
Train 4703 departs Jaisalmer daily at 09:35, gets to Gajner at 15:03 and gets to Bikaner at 17:25
3-tier air con = Rs 429
Sleeper Class = Rs 163 (not air con)
The times for 4703 didn't seem right so I checked, the train gets to Lalgarh Jn at 15:55 and departs at 17:15 for the final 3 kms to Bikaner, so it may be better to get off the train at Lalgarh and get a rickshaw (and I bet the rickshaw drivers take advantage), I will investigate the reason for this delay.
I mention Gajner (34kms from Bikaner) because I saw Gajner on a TV programme a few days ago and it looks like a place worth visiting, has anyone been to Gajner?
Overnight trains will also be introduced shortly, their times are as follows.
Train 4702 departs Bikaner daily at 23:25 and gets to Jaisalmer at 06:10
Train 4701 departs Jaisalmer daily at 22:45 and gets to Bikaner at 04:40
Difference between shatabdi and Janshatabdi
Jan is short for Janata (people), Shatabdi = new century.
The Jan Shatabdi (People's Shatabdi) was introduced as an 'affordable' Shatabdi, to give 'lower income' people the chance to use these high speed trains.
2S (bookable 2nd class seat) on a Jan Shatabdi is one of the best value seats on Indian Railways, the prices are so low that I don't need to find an example to show you, you will get a padded seat and because the 'windows' have only bars, you will be able view the countryside as you travel (the glass windows in Air Con Chair Class can be difficult to see through), the lower classes on Indian Railway often have a problem with ticketless people entering the carriages during the day, but this doesn't happen on the Jan Shatabdi’s.
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