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| Mamata Banerjee presents Railway |
| Mamata Banerjee presents Railway Budget
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| INDIA
, 3-July-2009
2:27:29 AM |
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Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a slew of measures including the development of fifty world class stations and introducing double decker coaches for inter-city travel.
Apart from that other measures which have been announced include introducing of Girl child scholarship for Group B employees. Other measures include increasing women commandos in key routes, Mobile ticketing vans, ramps and special bogeys for physically challenged passengers along with automatic ticket vending machines on major stations.
Earlier talking to reporters in New Delhi, Mamata said, “It will be a pro-people budget, a simple budget, people''s budget.”
She said that she only had 15 days to work on it, as the concerned officials were busy preparing it.
Nominal passenger fare revision, incentives on freight transport, enhanced funding for security and seasonal passes for vendors at Rs 20 are likely to be the highlights of the budget.
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