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Presented To: Presented by:
Ms. Ashima Thapar Anuradha saini
Faculty, PCTE Athumani
Rahul Goyal
¢ntroduction
Railway budget was being presented on
25th February, 2011.
Railway¶s services are comparable to
emergency services, required all the time.
rail transportation is vitally interlinked with
the economic development of the country.
We need a large heart and a large mind to
undertake big works.
railways have developed several business-
oriented policies for the first time.
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Ot er are also elcome
received.

¢ncreasing demand
¢t as been decided to set up rail-based
Components are not readily available.
industries.

Projects
Announced setting up of a large number or on t ese projects are at different
of rail-based factories/manufacturing stages of progress
 Mew Manufacturing units

Work on the
work on the
wagon factory Perambur¶s
new coach
in rissa will second unit
factory at Rae
also be taken and Palakkad
Bareli is
up once the coach factory
progressing
site is will start soon
rapidly now
finalized.
 Mew initiatives
‡ Jammu-Kashmir Rail Link project
involves a large number of bridges.

‡ Railways will set up a Bridge factory in

J&K

‡ propose to set up a state-of-the-art

¢nstitute for Tunnel and Bridge
engineering at Jammu.
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¢ propose to set up a metro coach factory on the land purchased
from willing sellers at singur/adjacent polba.

¢mphal, Manipur will soon be connected to the railway network.

Proposal of opening up a centre of excellence in software at

Darjeeling under the aegis of centre for railway information systems
Setting up of a railway industrial park through a joint venture
between Burn
Standard Co. Ltd. and SA¢L has already been initiated in this Park.
A captive thermal power plant of 1,000 MW at Mabi nagar is at an
advance stage of construction.

A second thermal power plant of 1,320 MW capacity at Adra is in

the process of being set up.
Expansion of rail infrastructure
‡ railways will be achieving its target of 800 km,

‡ for gauge conversion 700 km for doubling and 1,000 km of electrification.

‡ Railways¶ efforts to provide dignity to the poor through the ¢zzat scheme

‡ we have decided to give them small shelter through 

  

‡ This scheme is being taken up on pilot basis to provide 10,000 dwelling

units at Mumbai, Sealdah, Siliguri, Tiruchirapalli and other places.
 Annual plan 2011-12

Rs. 57630cr
Which will be
raised through
The highest GBS, diesel
10000 cr will be
ever plan cess, internal
raised through
investment by resources,
tax free bonds.
the railways. market
borrowings
through ¢FRC.
 Projected lines

‡ greater thrust there is a

is given to the ¢n the last ut of this 94 scheme for 12
expansion of budget ¢ had will be five year plan
the rail announced completed by for socially
network with updation of March, 2011 desirable lines.
allocation of ` surveys for 114 and the The scheme is
9,583 cr for socially remaining by being named,
new lines. desirable new December, @

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 To connect unserved and
underserved regions to the rail network.
Wadsa-Gadchirholi in Maharashtra

Bhadutola-Jhargram via Lalgarh in West

Bengal

Gudur-Durgrajpuram in Andhra Pradesh

Hansdiha-Godda in Jharkhand
A non-lapsable Fund for railway
projects in the northeast region has
been created that will boost the
progress of projects.

All the state capitals of this region

except Sikkim will get connected by rail
network in the next seven years.

¢ndia¶s longest tunnel between Banihal

and Qazigund would be completed this
year.
 Safety
‡ We are trying sincerely to ensure any incidents do not occur.

‡ Railway is passenger friendly, safe and a cheap mode of transport. Rail fares
are close to one-fourth that of the road.\

‡ our recent trials with an improved version of ACD have met with success and it
will be commissioned on three zonal railways,

‡ The number of incidents at unmanned level crossings, has come down by 36%
with the elimination of 1,500 unmanned crossings, construction of 172 R Bs
and 240 RUBs/subways.
 safety
‡ Frequent calls for µrail rokos¶ are not only crippling operations on ¢ndian
Railways but also causing immense hardship to passengers,

‡ A GPS based µFog Safe¶ device edhas been deploy

‡ We cannot ensure efficient and punctual operations of trains without the help of
state governments.

‡ ¢ am now making an offer that whichever state ensures trouble-free train running
for the whole year, shall be given two new trains and two projects as a special
package.

‡ An All ¢ndia Security Help Line on a single number has been set up
Modernization of railways

A project with ¢¢T, Chennai on prototype manufacture of

ultrasonic systems;

Partnership with Jadavpur University for development of

new designs for rail steel bridges;

A collaborative study with ¢¢T, Mumbai on the problem of

corrosion of rails;

E-procurement and e-auction to ensure transparency and

economy.

¢ssuing paperless railway receipts;

    
Green initiatives Adarsh stations

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Measures to improve passenger
amenities
¢ntroduction of a pan-¢ndia, multi-purpose ³Go-¢ndia´ smart card
on a pilot basis.
Better accessibility at stations for physically challenged
customers;
A new portal for e-ticketing by Centre for Railway ¢nformation
Systems (CR¢S) is ready and will be launched shortly.
Provision of internet access on Howrah-Rajdhani Express as a
pilot project;

¢ntroduction of advance booking of retiring rooms.

Extension of Rail Yatri Sevaks with modern trolleys to six more

stations:
Different facilities proposed
physically handicapped persons are not entitled
for concessions on Rajdhani and Shatabdi
trains. ¢t is proposed to extend the concession
facility to them in these trains also.

Press correspondents are now entitled to avail

50% concession with family for two years.

At present the concession for senior citizens is

extended to both men and women at 60 years of
age. ¢ propose to reduce this in case of women
to 58 years.
 Staff welfare measures
Expand the scope of Liberalized Active
Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed
Employment for safety category.

extending medical facilities to both dependent

father and mother of railway employees.

¢ncreasing the scholarship for the girl child

Setting up of a Railway Vidyalaya Prabandhan

Board (RVPB) to improve quality of education to
children studying in 269 railway schools.
 Staff welfare

Recruitment Training

recruitment is in A training centre is

process of1.75 lakhs proposed to be
jobs started at Kharagpur.

13,000 posts in Railway Setting up of

Protection Force. Polytechnics

for the first time,

railways are inducting
16,000 ex-servicemen
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‡ Every day over 5 lakh

Kolkata passengers utilize the metro
services.
Metro is ‡ ¢t is also proposed to take up the
expanding following new surveys for new
connectivity of Kolkata metro.
its ‡ ¢t is also proposed to introduce
network. 34 new services in Kolkata Metro
in the coming year.
 Financial performance
The total gross
earnings have
now been fixed
¢ndian Railways at `94,742 cr
are passing which is `177 cr
through a very higher than the
difficult phase. budget.

we have not we will save

only paid the `3,700 cr by our
full dividend for economy drive
2009-10, but and other
also achieved austerity
an operating measures.
ratio of 95.3%.
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rdinary Working Expenses have
been assessed at `73,650 cr.  6

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The expected perating Ratio is

91.1%.

PSUs earning a net profit of

`1,782 cr. These PSUs paid a
dividend `311.88 cr to the railways.
Few benefits proposed

¢n 2011-12, the covering around 1,000 km

are proposed to be electrified.

There is no increase in passenger fares

proposed for this year.

Mobile vans for issuing e-tickets will be

extended to government medical college
hospitals, High Courts, District Court,
University campus, ¢T hubs, ¢¢Ts and ¢¢Ms.