Railway Budget 2016-17: Key highlights:
25 Feb 2016
- No Hike in passenger fare
- 65,000 additional berths and 17,000 bio-toilets to be installed
- Train on demand to provide choice of accommodation in specific trains to wait-listed passengers
- E-booking of tickets facility on the concessional passes available to journalists
- Facility of cancellation through the 139 helpline after verification through 'One Time Password' sent on registered phone number
- Operations audit proposed to improve punctuality of trains
- Wi Fi facility at 400 more stations
- Stations to be developed under PPP mode
- Award of civil contracts for Dedicated Freight Corridor to be over by 31 March
- Capacity of e-ticketing system to be enhanced
- Increased quota of lower berth for senior citizens and women
- 820 rail over bridges/ rail under bridges constructed
- Operating ratio to increase from 90 per cent to 92 per cent
- Nargol- Hazira port connectivity to be taken up under PPP mode
- Sale of tickets through hand-held terminals
- E-ticketing facility to foreign debit/credit cards
- Bar coded tickets, expansion of Vikalp
- CCTV cameras on tatkal windows and periodic audit of PRS website will also be introduced