Indian Railway Budget 2011-12 and Employees
Railway Minister Mamta Banarjee presented her third budget on 25/02/2011, Friday.
Highlights of the budget related to Railway Employees.
During her budget speech , she mentioned about the financial crisis in the railway department. Her quote is given below.
Facilities for Railway employees in Budget 2011-12
- Medical Facilities extended to dependant parents of the Railway employees.
- Scholarship for girl child of Group-D employees increaesed to Rs 1200 per month.
- Recruitment for 1.75 lakh vacancies of Group 'C' and 'D' including to fill up backlog of SC/ST, initiated.
- Recruitment will be based on zones.
- 16,000 ex-serviceman to be inducted by march 2011.
- Separate sports quota to be planned.
- Training Centre for Customer Care employees in Kharakpur.
- 5 new polytechnics to give training in Technology.
- Vidhyala Prabandhan board for improving education in Railway Schools.
- 20 Hospitals on Wheels for Railway employees in rural areas.
- 20 New hostels will be opened for children of railway employees.
- New portal for e-ticket booking.
- More fare concessions to senior citizens.
Railway Budget 2011
Mamta Banarjee, Railway Minister today presented Railway budget for the financial year 2011-12 in parliament.
Railway Budget Key Points
- New 9 Duranto Trains
- No increase in train fares
- Ticket booking charges reduced by Rs 10 for AC and Rs 5 for non AC class
- Coach Factory Work in Kanchikkode, Kerala will be started this year.
- Wagon Factory in Cherthala, Kerala.
- New Coach Factory in Jammu & Kashmir
- Sports Cadre in Railway
- Loco Factory in Manippur
- New Go India Smart Cards
- 15 new suburban Trains in Kolkota.
- 3 New Shatabdi Trains
- 55 New Express Trains
- Senior citizen concession for women above 58 years.
- No unmanned Crossings across the country in 2012
- Concession for physically handicapped in Rajadhani and Shatabdi
- Railway line capacity will be raised to 700 kms.
- Metro coach factory near Singur in West Bengal
- Senior citizens will get 40 per cent concession on rail ticket.
- All-India security helpline set up
- Manipur to be soon connected to railway network
- Upgraded class of AC travel to be intrdouced.
- Student Express to be introduced.
Railway minister Lalu Prasad on Friday announced the introduction of 43 new trains. While fare for ordinary trains was reduced by Rupee 1 for journey above ten kilometers, fares of all AC classes were reduced by 2%. Similarly, second class and sleeper class fares for all mail, express and ordinary passenger trains were reduced by 2% for tickets costing Rs 50 and more.
He announced amidst thumping of desks that construction work on double line Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor has commenced from Dehri-on-Son from February 10, while work on Western Corridor will commence soon.
Action is also on for examining feasibility of running bullet trains on selected sections travelling at speed of 300 to 350 kilometers per hour. The survey for extension of Kolkata Metro from Dum Dum to Dakshineswar has been completed.
Railways expected to show a surplus of Rs 188.47 billion in the next fiscal. Due to implementation of the sixth pay commission recommendations, Railways are expected to incur an additional burden of Rs 90 billion on salaries and Rs 45 billion on pensions.
List Of New Trains
1. Bilaspur-Tirunelveli via Thiruvananthapuram Express (Weekly)
2. Ranchi-Jaynagar Express (Tri-Weekly)
3. Secunderabad-Manuguru Superfast (Daily)
4. Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly)
5. Bhopal-Lucknow Junction Garib Rath Express (Weekly)
6. Durg-Jaipur Express (Weekly)
7. Chhatrapati Sahu terminal (Kolhapur)-Dhanbad Link Service via Parasnath (Weekly)
8. Sengottai-Erode Passenger (Daily)
9. Dibrugarh Town-Chandigarh Express (Weekly)
10. Ajmer-Bhagalpur via Delhi Garib Rath Express (Bi-Weekly)
11. Nizamuddin-Bangalore via Kacheguda Rajdhani Express (Tri-weekly)
12. Barauni-Delhi Jan Sadharan Superfast (Bi-weekly)
13. Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (Daily)
14. Mysore-Yesvantpur Express (Daily)
15. Jamalpur-Gaya Passenger
16. Korapur-Rourkela Express via Rayagada (Daily)
17. Agra-Ajmer Superfast (Daily)
18. Sitamarhi-Patna Link Service (Daily)
19. Tiruchirapalli-Madurai Express (Daily)
20. Mumbai-Bikaner Superfast (Bi-weekly)
21. Jaynagar-Ajmer Link Service (Bi-weekly)
22. Agra-Lucknow Junction Shatabdi Express (Daily)
23. Gandhidham-Kolkata Superfast (Weekly)
24. New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express via Bhagalpur (Weekly)
25. Mumbai-Tirunelveli Superfast via Thiruvananthapuram (Bi-weekly)
26. Jammu Tawi-Darbhanga Garib Rath Express (Weekly)
27. Saharsa-Delhi Express via Patna (Weekly)
28. Gwalior-Bhopal Intercity Express via Guna (Five days a week)
29. Coimbatore-Tuticorin Link Service (Daily)
30. Howrah-Haridwar Superfast (Five days a week)
31. Machhalipatnam-Mumbai Superfast (Bi-weekly)
32. Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Superfast (Daily)
33. Gorakhpur-Mumbai Superfast (Daily)
34. Jhajhar-Patna
35. New Delhi-Palwal
36. New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express via Muzaffarpur (Weekly)
37. Veraval-Mumbai Link Service (Daily)
38. Ranchi-Patna Jan Shatabdi (Daily)
39. Jhansi-Chhindwara Superfast (Bi-weekly)
40. Mumbai-Jodhpur Express (Weekly)
41. Hajipur-Bagaha Link Service
42. Howrah-Delhi Link Service via Azimganj-Bhagalpur (Weekly)
43. Sitamarhi-Delhi Garib Rath Express via Patna (Weekly)
Will the employees benefit from this interim railway budget ?
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is expected to announce more sops for train travellers when he presents the interim railway budget in Parliament today (FEB- 13).
Some fare cuts are expected as there is redution in price of crude oil. People are expecting a " Lalu Magic " this year also. There expectations that Lalu would once again spare the average citizen from fare hikes and introduce some new trains.AC-III fares are likely to be slashed by 10 per cent and general class fares may also be slashed by 10 per cent.
