Highlights of Railway Interim Budget 2009-10

• This is UPA's last rail budget in its term
• Railways has a Rs 90,000 cr profit in last four years
  
• 10,500 cr allocated for pension requirements
• 6th Pay Commission to hike expense by Rs 13,500 cr
• Steep fall in container traffic
• Work on Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor started
• Rlys to invest Rs 35,900 cr in 2009
• Railway connectivity to Kashmir initiated
• Passenger growth up 14 pct
• Passenger trains to have 22 pct more capacity
• Efficiency of passenger and goods wagons to be hiked
• Goods trains to have 78 pct added capacity
• 4 Railways inquiry call centres set up
• Electrification of 1000 km of rail lines completed
• Wagon production to be hiked from 6600 to 15000
• Railways invested Rs 70,000 cr out of surplus
• Railways to invest Rs 2,30,000 cr in 11th plan
• Railways reported Rs 25,000 cr cash surplus last year
• Revenues have risen by 39 paise a tonne/km since 2001
• Costs have fallen by 7 paise a tonne/km since 2001
• Gaps in the network will be bridged: Lalu
• Railways got loans at 4 pct
• Accidents come down from 325 in 03-04 to 194 in 07-08
• Railways has grown freight at the rate of 8 pct over last 5 yrs
• Research on for bullet trains
• FY10 operating ratio seen at 88%
• Mumbai-Bikaner superfast bi-weekly
• Nizamuddin-Bangalore Rajdhani tri-weekly
• Lalu gives 2 pct cut in AC and mail train fares
• Forty-three new trains announced
• Laid 1100 kms of new rail lines
• Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani becomes 4 days a week
• New Delhi-Ahmedabad Rajdhani becomes daily

[via Financial Express]