Railway Budget 2009 - Highlights
- 2% cut in all train fares
- 1100 kms of rail lines re-laid
- 2% cut in AC and mail fares
- Ludhiana-Kolkata freight corridor to be ready this month
- 43 new trains announced
- Delhi-Patna bullet train: Feasibility study soon
- Railways have set up four call centres
- To spend Rs 37,900 crore in FY10
- Railways managed 8 per cent growth in freight loading in five years
- Freight rates remain unchanged
- Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor work has begun
- Railways to introduce high capacity wagons
- Goods trains to have 78% more capacity
- Railways raised $ 100 million at 4% interest
- Kolkata Metro will be expanded
- Steps to have railway connectivity to Kashmir initiated
- Rail accidents have come down to 195 in 2007-08 from 325 in 2003-04
- Railways has generated cash worth Rs 90,000 crores in last five years
- Railways has reached new heights: Lalu
- Lalu begins Budget speech
- Lalu arrives in Parliament
- This will be Lalu's sixth Railway Budget
- Rail fares may not go up, indicates Lalu
- Lalu to present Railway Budget
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