Highlights of Railway Budget 2011-12
- Multi-purpose smart cards for long-distance travel.
- Double-decker AC trains for Ahmedabad-Mumbai, Jaipur-Delhi.
- New trains for states going to the polls.
- Capacity of 107 Mumbai trains to be increased.
- New trains for Vivekananda, Tagore birth anniversaries.
- Mamta announces three new Shatabdhis.
- Mamta announces new Duronto trains.
- 50 per cent concession on fares for media personnel and their families twice a year.
- Concessions for the physically challenged on Rajdhani and Shatabdhi trains
- Senior citizen concessions for women start at age 58 instead of 60.
- Railways will strengthen suburban networks in Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai,Bengaluru.
- Suburban networks of Hyderabad and Secunderabad will be improved.
- Proud of my state, will do more for it, says Mamata.
- Kindly continue, Meira Kumar tells Mamata.
- Haven't announced anything major, yet MPs are shouting, complains Mamata.
- Speaker Meira Kumar smiling, waiting for screaming MPs to settle down.
- MPs on their feet, shouting Mamata down.
- 'Poora karne deejiye,' Meira Kumar tells screaming MPs.
- Lalu is speaking, but no one can hear him in the din.
- West Bengal-orientation of Mamata's proposals irk MPs
- Mamata screams back at fellow-MPs. Meira Kumar calls for calm.
- Please sit down, please sit down, please sit down, Meira Kumar tells MPs.
- Kolkata Metro will expand its network.
- Railways will go from strength to strength, says Mamata.
- Revenue will exceed Rs 1 lakh crore, a 9.9 per cent increase over last year's number.
- Kolkata to get 15 new suburban trains.
- 2011 is Green Energy Year for railways, says Mamata.
- Safety measure: All unmanned level crossings will be removed.
- Railways facing money shortage, passing through difficult phase, says Mamata.
- 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore: Train will go to Bangladesh on acommemorative journey.
- International training centre to come up at Agra.
- Meira Kumar makes a farmaish:' Where are your couplets?'
- 10 year-backlog in recruitment will be addressed right away, says Mamata.
- Elderly workers will be transferred to less strenuous positions.
- Ticket booking charges reduced by 50 per cent.
- Smart card tickets to be introduced.
- Mamata apologises for missed targets. Will do better this year, she promises.
- Railways environment-friendly and fuel-efficient, says Mamata.
- Railways to get help from IITs to develop new technology.
- Trouble-free states can decide what reward projects they want.
- Two extra trains and two new projects for states with no rail roko agitations.
- Rail is 'desh ka service', stop rail roko agitations, urges Mamata.
- Lalu suppresses a yawn as Mamata delivers budget speech.
- Anti-collision device is ready, three zonal railways will commission it soon.
- Fund for social causes will be called PM Rail Vikas Yojana.
- Mamata to set up fund to support social causes.
- Mamata plans gas-based power plant in Maharashtra.
- Questions and shouts distract Mamata, but she resumes her budget speech.
- Mamata on new connections: "If rail connectivity is there, every connectivity will increase in this country."
- Railways to create 10,000 shelters for the poor.
- Mamata plans to raise Rs 10,000 crore from tax-free bonds.
- More than 4 lakh travelled on Izzat tickets, priced at Rs 25.
- Railways' infrastructure will be expanded, says Mamata.
- Nandigram to get railway industrial park.
- Singur in West Bengal to get metro coach factory.
- Track-making centre to come up at Uluberia in West Bengal.
- Economic focus along with social concerns
- Railway Industrial Park to be set up in Nandigram
- 10,000 shelters to be built for homeless
- Manipur to be connected to Rail network for the first time
- Proposal for setting up gas-based power plant in Maharashtra
- Housing units will come up in Mumbai, Sealdah, Siliguri and Tiruchirapalli on pilot basis ...
