Indian Railway Minister Sadanand Gowda present his maiden railway budget in parliament. No Price hikes in rail fares. For our prestige readers now we are compiling all the highlights of this budget and also List of New trains declared in Railway Budget 2014 (check below). You can check also compilation of highlights of General Budget 2014, here. Now it is a speech which he delivered into parliament.
Highlights of Railway Budget 2014
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom and I am grateful to PM Modi ji for having reposed his faith in me, says Sadananda Gowda
- Though I am a month old in the ministry, I am flooded with request for new trains, better services, new lines
- Indian Railways is the soul of the economy and our target is to become largest freight carrier in the world
- Indian railways carry only 31% of the total freight in the country. It is a challenge we have to face, says Rail Minister
- We need to balance social and commercial obligations and we ill start work on high speed network
- There had been focus on sanctioning projects rather than completing them
- There are 4 projects that are over 30 years old but have still not been completed
- Managing the Railways takes most of our resources. We spend 94% of our earnings, are left with just 6 per cent
- The medicine may act bitter in the beginning but will be a nectar in the end: Gowda
- Need Rs 50,000 cr every year for the next ten years for Railways
- Ministry of Railways is seeking cabinet approval for FDI in Railways, except Railway operations
- The fare revision was tough but necessary decision, it will bring Indian Railways an additional revenue of Rs 8000 crore
- Can get claps from this house by announcing new projects but that would be rendering injustice to the struggling organization
- Gross traffic receipts in 2013-14 was Rs 12,35,558 crore; operating ratio was 94 per cent
- Ministry of Railways is seeking cabinet approval for FDI in Railways, except Railway operations
- Need PPP Route to finance bulk of projects including high speed rail
- Need to have private-public partnership to improve condition of railways
- Through PPP route want to provide foot-over bridges, escalators and lifts across all stations
- Populist projects and mismanagement have brought Railways to point of funds crunch, says Rail Minister
- Indian Railways spent Rs 41,000 crore on laying of 3,700 km of new lines in last 10 years
- Surplus revenues declining. Hardly any resources for development work
- I propose to introduce pre cooked and ready to eat meals of reputed brands and want battery operated cars for senior citizens at railway stations: Gowda
- Propose to hike budgetary plan outlay to Rs.47,650 crore
- High priority areas - safety, cleanliness, passenger amenities and capacity augmentationr
- Large part of the budget outlay to go to safety projects
- Will introduce RO drinking water in trains and on stations
- Propose to outsource cleaning responsibility on 50 stations to specialist cleaning agencies
- CCTVs at stations will be used to monitor cleaning activities
- Severe action to be taken against vendors delivering unhygienic food, including cancellation of contracts
- Bio-toilets in trains to be increased to mitigate direct discharge of human waste on tracks and platform
- Severe action to be taken against vendors delivering unhygienic food, including cancellation of contracts
- Bio-toilets in trains to be increased to mitigate direct discharge of human waste on tracks and platform
- Ticket bookings through post offices and mobile phones will be popularized, also coin operated ticket machines
- Contemplating setting up of a railway university, both technical and non-technical courses
- I propose Bullet trains, Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector has been identified
- Efforts will be made to increase speed of trains to 160-200, on select sectors
- I propose retiring rooms on all stations: Sadananda Gowda
- Indian Railways to set up food courts at major railway stations
- Railways to scale down market borrowings to Rs 11,790 crore
- Allocated Rs 100 crore For High- Speed Rail Network
- To Have Diamond Quadrilateral Network for High-speed Trains
- 17,000 Railway Protection Force personnel to be available soon
- Introduction of women RPF constables, coaches meant for women to be escorted for greater safety
- To allot Rs 1,780 Crore to eliminate unmanned level crossings
- To have Digital Reservation Charts at stations
- Will provide summer internships to undergraduate students from engineering background
- E-procurement will be made compulsory for purchase of 25 lakh and more
- Recent fare and tariff hike to mop additional revenue of about Rs 8,000 crore, says Rail Minister
- Resource mobilisation through leveraging PSU resources, FDI and Public Private Participation
- Solar energy to be harnessed through PPP by utilizing rooftop spaces of stations and railway buildings
- Hospital Management Information System to integrate all railway health units and hospitals
- Ladies' coaches to be escorted by women RPF constables; additional care for ladies travelling alone
- 29 rail projects in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with Rs. 20,680 crores will be completed
- Bangalore to get suburban rails
Prime Minister Modi last week said in a speech he hopes for more private sector money in modernising the railways, still the main form of long-distance travel for most of India's population of 1.2 billion people.
"We want the railway stations to have better facilities than airports. This is our dream," said Mr Modi, whose government is expected to announce more public-private partnerships in railway infrastructure.
"You will see a change in near future," he said, adding that "private parties would also be ready to invest because this is a good project economically and will benefit everyone".
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which took office in May after scoring a landslide election win, has also said it favours a greater role for private business in building other infrastructure such as roads and ports.
But the BJP has said modernisation of the decrepit and over-burdened train network tops its ambitious agenda for infrastructure-building in India. Dilapidated transportation has held back growth of Asia's third-largest economy, analysts say.
To help fund new wagon purchases, modernise track, revamp lines and improve safety, the government hiked passenger fares by 14.2 per cent and freight rates by 6.5 per cent - the steepest rise in 15 years and a politically controversial move.
A public outcry saw the government later partially climb down over city commuter fare hikes, underscoring the difficulty in reducing subsidies in a tough economic environment where hundreds of millions of people live in dire poverty.
The economy is growing by just under 5 per cent annually, far below the near double-digit pace of a few years ago.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley underlined Monday in parliament the government's determination to go ahead with difficult belt-tightening decisions, saying "for any public utility to run, the users must pay".
The government has also suggested it may open up the railway to foreign investors, and analysts will be looking for any suggestion of such a move in the rail budget as a sign of desire to welcome more outside investment.
Analysts say as much as $500 billion (Rs. 30 lakh crore at 1 dollar = 60 rupees) must be invested over the next decade to overhaul the Victorian-era network.
In the national budget, Mr Jaitley is expected to press forward with fuel price rises as part of efforts to curb subsidies.
India's subsidies on energy, food and fertiliser total some Rs. 2.6 lakh crore ($43 billion) annually.
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List of new trains in Railway Budget 2014
Railways proposes to introduce 58 new trans which includes Five Jansadharan Trains, five Premium Trains, six AC Express Trains, 27 Express Trains, eight Passenger Trains, two MEMU services and five DEMU services this year. Announcing this in Parliament today while presenting the rail budget, the Minister of Railways Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda also proposed to extend the run of 11 existing trains.
Shri Gowda said these services would be meeting the demand surges which manifest themselves on special occasions. He said that special trains would continue to run to meet the holiday and festival rush including services for Melmaruvathur, Velankanni, Jhalawar etc.
THE NEW TRAINS ARE:
Jansadharan Trains
Shri Gowda said these services would be meeting the demand surges which manifest themselves on special occasions. He said that special trains would continue to run to meet the holiday and festival rush including services for Melmaruvathur, Velankanni, Jhalawar etc.
THE NEW TRAINS ARE:
Jansadharan Trains
- Ahmedabad–Darbhanga Jansadharan Express via Surat
- Ii Jaynagar–Mumbai Jansadharan Express
- Mumbai–Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express
- Saharasa–Anand Vihar Jansadharan Express via Motihari
- Saharasa–Amritsar Jansadharan Express
Premium Trains
- Mumbai Central–New Delhi Premium AC Express
- Shalimar–Chennai Premium AC Express
- Secunderabad- Hazrat Nizamuddin Premium AC Express
- Jaipur–Madurai Premium Express
- Kamakhya–Bengaluru Premium Express
AC Express Trains
- Vijayawada New Delhi AP Express (Daily)
- LokmanyaTilak(T)–Lucknow(Weekly)
- Nagpur–Pune(Weekly)
- Nagpur–Amritsar(Weekly)
- Naharlagun–NewDelhi(Weekly)
- Nizamuddin–Pune(Weekly)
Express Trains
- Ahmedabad–Patna Express(Weekly)via Varanasi
- Ahmedabad Chennai Express(Biweekly)via Vasai Road
- Bengaluru –Mangalore Express(Daily)
- Bengaluru –Shimoga Express(Biweekly)
- Bandra(T)–Jaipur Express(Weekly)Via Nagda,Kota
- Bidar–Mumbai Express(Weekly)
- Chhapra–Lucknow Express (Tri weekly)viaBallia,Ghazipur,Varanasi
- Ferozpur–Chandigarh Express(6 days a week)
- Guwahati–Naharlagun Intercity Express(Daily)
- Guwahati–Murkongselek Intercity Express(Daily)
- Gorakhpur–Anand Vihar Express(Weekly)
- Hapa–Bilaspur Express(Weekly)via Nagpur
- Hazur Saheb Nanded–Bikaner Express(Weekly)
- Indore–Jammu Tawi Express(Weekly)
- Kamakhya–Katra Express(Weekly)via Darbhanga
- Kanpur–Jammu Tawi Express(Biweekly)
- Lokmanya Tilak(T)–Azamgarh Express(Weekly)
- Mumbai_Kazipeth Express(Weekly)via Balharshah
- Mumbai–Palitana Express(Weekly)
- New Delhi Bhatinda Shatabdi Express(Biweekly)
- New Delhi–Varanasi Express(Daily)
- Paradeep–Howrah Express(Weekly)
- Paradeep–Visakhapatnam Express(Weekly)
- Rajkot–Rewa Express(Weekly)
- Ramnagar–Agra Express(Weekly)
- Tatanagar Baiyyappanahali (Bengaluru) Express(Weekly)
- Visakhapatnam–Chennai Express(Weekly)
Passenger Trains
- Bikaner–Rewari Passenger(Daily)
- Dharwad–Dandeli Passenger(Daily)via Alnavar
- Gorakhpur–Nautanwa Passenger(Daily)
- Guwahati–Mendipathar Passenger(Daily)
- Hatia–Rourkela Passenger
- Byndoor–Kasaragod Passenger(Daily)
- Rangapara North–Rangiya Passenger(Daily)
- Yesvantpur–Tumkur Passenger(Daily)
MEMU services
- Bengaluru –Ramanagaram 6 days a week(3Pairs)
- Palwal–Delhi–Aligarh
DEMU services
- Bengaluru –Neelmangala (Daily)
- Chhapra–Manduadih (6days a week)via Ballia
- Baramula–Banihal (Daily)
- Sambalpur–Rourkela (6 days a week)
- Yesvantpur Hosur (6 days a week)
EXTENSION OF RUN OF EXISTING TRAINS
- 22409/22410 Anand Vihar Sasaram Garib Rath Express to Gaya
- 12455/12456 Delhi Sarai Rohilla Sriganganagar Express to Bikaner
- 15231/15232 Gondia Muzaffarpur Express to Barauni
- 12001/12002 New Delhi Bhopal Shatabdi Express to Habibganj
- 54602 Ludhiana–Hissar Passenger to Sadulpur
- 55007/55008 Sonpur–Kaptanganj Passenger to Gorakhpur
- 55072/55073 Gorakhpur–Thawe Passenger toSiwan
- 63237/63238Buxar–Mughalsarai MEMU toVaranasi
- 63208/63211Jhajha–PatnaMEMUtoJasidih
- 64221/64222LucknowHardoi MEMU to Shahjahan pur
- 68002/68007Howrah–Belda MEMU to Jaleswar
Further, following are the trains, which is announced in interim budget of 2014-15 which is presented bu UPA government in February 2014. 73 new trains are being introduced which includes 17 Premium trains, 39 Express trains, 10 Passenger trains, 4 MEMU and 3 DEMU in this year’s Interim
Railway Budget. Three trains will be extended and frequency of same number of trains will be increased.
Premium Trains:
- Howrah – Pune AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Nagpur, Manmad
- Kamakhya – New Delhi AC Express (Weekly) via Chhapra, Varanasi
- Kamakhya – Chennai AC Express (Weekly) via Malda, Howrah
- Mumbai – Howrah AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Nagpur, Raipur
- Mumbai – Patna AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Khandwa, Itarsi, Manikpur
- Nizamuddin – Madgaon AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Kota, Vasai Road
- Sealdah –Jodhpur AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Mughalsarai
- Yesvantpur - Jaipur AC Express (Weekly) via Gulbarga, Pune, Vasai Road
- Ahmedabad – Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express (Tri-weekly) via Palanpur, Ajmer, Rewari
- Bandra – Amritsar Express (Weekly) Via Kota, New Delhi, Ambala
- Bandra (T) – Katra Express (Weekly) via Kota, New Delhi, Ambala
- Gorakhpur – New Delhi Express (Bi-weekly) via Lucknow, Moradabad
- Katra – Howrah Express (Weekly) Express via Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Saharanpur
- Mumbai – Gorakhpur Express ( Bi-weekly) via Khandwa, Jhansi, Kanpur
- Patna– Bangalore Express (Weekly) via Mughalsarai, Chheoki, Manikpur, Nagpur
- Yesvantpur – Katra Express (Weekly) via Gulbarga, Kacheguda, Nagpur, New Delhi
- Thiruvananthpuram – Bangalore (Yesvantpur) Express (Bi- weekly) via Erode, Tirupattur
Express Trains :
- Ahmedabad – Katra Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Rewari, Hisar, Bathinda, Amritsar
- Ahmedabad – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Bandikui, Mathura, Kasganj
- Ahmedabad – Allahabad Express (Weekly) via Jalgaon, Khandwa, Itarsi, Satna, Manikpur
- Amritsar – Gorakhpur Express (Weekly) via Saharanpur, Moradabad, Sitapur Cantt.
- Aurangabad – Renigunta Express (Weekly) via Parbhani, Bidar, Vikarabad
- Bangalore – Chennai Express (Daily) via Bangarpet, Jolarpettai
- Bandra (T) – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Kota, Mathura, Kasganj
- Bareilly – Bhopal Express (Weekly) via Chandausi, Aligarh, Tundla, Agra
- Bhavnagar – Bandra Express (Weekly) via Ahmedabad
- Bhavnagar- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Link Express (Weekly)
- Gandhidham – Puri Express (Weekly)
- Gorakhpur – Pune Express (Weekly) via Lucknow, Kanpur, Bina, Manmad
- Guntur-Kacheguda Double Decker Express (Bi-weekly);
- Howrah – Yeswantpur AC Express (Weekly)via Bhubaneswar, Gudur, Katpadi
- Hubli – Mumbai Express (weekly) via Bijapur, Sholapur
- Hyderabad – Gulbarga Intercity (Daily)
- Jaipur – Chandigarh Intercity (Daily) via Jhajjar;
- Kacheguda – Tirupati Double Decker Express (Bi Weekly);
- Kota – Jammu Tawi Express (Weekly) via New Delhi, Ambala
- Kanpur – Bandra (T) Express (Weekly) via Kasganj, Mathura, Kota
- Lucknow – Kathgodam Express (Tri-weekly)
- Manduadih – Jabalpur Express (Weekly) via Allahabad, Manikpur, Satna
- Malda Town – Anand Vihar Express (Weekly) via Amethi & Rae Bareli;
- Mannargudi – Jodhpur Express (Weekly) via, Jaipur
- Mumbai – Chennai Express (Weekly) via Pune, Gulbarga, Wadi
- Mumbai – Gorakhpur Express (Weekly) via Gonda, Balrampur, Barhani (after gauge conversion);
- Mumbai – Karmali AC Express (Weekly) via Roha
- Nanded – Aurangabad Express (Weekly) via Purna, Parbhani
- Nagpur – Rewa Express (Weekly) via Satna
- Nagercoil – Kacheguda Express (Weekly) via Karur, Namakkal, Salem
- Pune – Lucknow Express (Weekly) via Khandwa, Bhopal, Bina, Jhansi, Kanpur
- Ramnagar – Chandigarh Express (Weekly) via Moradabad, Saharanpur
- Ranchi – New Jalpaiguri Express (Weekly) via Jhajha, Katihar
- Secunderabad – Visakhapatnam AC Express (Weekly) via Kazipeth, Vijaywada
- Santragachi – Anandvihar Express (Weekly)
- Srigangnagar – Jammu Tawi Express (Weekly) via Abohar, Bathinda, Dhuri
- Thiruvananathapuram-Nizamuddin Express (Bi-weekly) one day via Kottayam and one day via Allepey
- Varanasi – Mysore Express (Bi-weekly) via Wadi, Daund
- Balurghat – Howrah (Bi-Weekly)
Passenger trains :
- Bina – Katni Passenger (Daily)
- Dekargaon – Naharlagun Passenger (Daily) after completion of new line
- Gunupur - Visakhapatnam Passenger (Daily)
- Hubli - Belgaum Fast Passenger (Daily)
- Jaipur – Phulera Passenger (Daily)
- Mannargudi – Mayiladuthurai Passenger (Daily)
- Punalur – Kanniyakumari Passenger (Daily) via Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
- Sambalpur – Bhawanipatna Passenger (Daily)
- Tatanagar – Chakulia Passenger (Daily)
- Tiruchendur – Tirunelveli Passenger (Daily)
MEMU Trains :
- Anand – Dakor (Daily 2 services)
- Anuppur-Ambikapur (6 days a week)
- Delhi – Rohtak Passenger (Daily 2 services)
- Santragachi – Jhargram (5 days a week)
DEMU Trains :
- Morbi – Maliya Miyana
- Ratlam – Fatehabad Chandrawati Ganj (Daily) after gauge conversion
- Rewari – Rohtak (Daily)
Extension of Trains
- 14705/14706 Delhi Sarai Rohilla – Sujangarh Express to Jodhpur
- 15281/15282 Patna – Saharsa Express to Murliganj
- 15013 / 15014 Kathgodam – Bhagat Ki Kothi Ranikhet Express to Jaisalmer
Increase in Frequency:
- 16571/16572 Bidar – Yesvantpur Express 3 days to daily
- 17225/17226 Hubli – Vijayawada Express from 3 days to daily
- 17319/17320 Hubli – Secunderabad Express from 3 days to daily
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