Dinesh Trivedi's Shaayari during Rail Budget Speech

Shaayari read by Dinesh Trivedi during rail budget presentation:

Hath ki lakeeron se zindagi nahi banti
Hamaara bhi kuch hissa hai zindagi banaane ka


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Fhaulaadi hain seene apne
Fhaulaadi hain baahein
Hum chaahein to paida kardein
Chattaanon mein raahein

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Kandhey jhhuk gaye hain
Kamar lachak gayi hai
Bojhaa uthaa uthaa kar
Bechaari rail thak gayi hai
Rail gaadi ko nayi dawa chaahiye, 
Thode paise chaahiye
Aur aap sa humsafar chaahiye 

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Manzil abhi door hai
Aur raasta mushkil

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Railway budget 2012 Speech highlights - LIVE Blogging

Dinesh Trivedi's Railway Budget 2012 Speech was rather interesting with poetry and interesting proposals.
Focus of this year's rail budget:

• Safety
• Consolidation
• Recongestion and capacity management
• Modernization
• Bring down operation ratio

Highlights of Railway Budget 2012-13 (Rs 2.5 Lakh Crore Budget):

1. Independent railway safety authority - Rs 16842 crore plan
2. Eliminate level crossings in next 5 years
3. Railways must attract 10% government infrastructure spending
4. Plan to modernise 19000 km; Rs 6467 crore on track modernisation
5. 800 M Gauge conversion target for this year 
6. Propose to complete 45 new projects
7. New tracks in tribal areas
8. New autocars to be introduced
9. Four new rail coach factories in Kerala
10. Locomotive factory at Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
11. 2 new manufacturing units in Kutch area in Gujarat
12. 1500 EMU coaches added
13. SMS and internet alerts of train status, in the next 18 months
14. Disaster management advanced machinery proposed. Training centres in Bengaluru, Kharagpur and Lucknow.
15. Propose to set up a specialised housekeeping body to improve standard of hygiene and cleanliness in trains and station... in the next 6 months.
16. Specially designed coaches for differently-abled persons.
17. Engage reputed professional agencies to handle catering. A pilot project to be initiated.
18. Green toilets like bio toilets to be installed in 2500 coaches.
    
    
    
19. Rae Bareily coach factory is ready
20. Rail Khel Ratna award proposed for performers in sports... world class training to be provided 
21. For pilgrimages, Guru Parikrama special train - Amritsar-Patna-Nanded route 
22. 75 new express trains, 21 new passenger trains to be introduced
23. 50 per cent concession in fare in AC classes to anaemia and sickle cell disease patients.
    
    
     
24. Allocation of Rs 1112 crores for amenities
25. Need Rs 5 Lakh crores from PM's Rail Scheme
26. Propose electrification of 6500 km
27. Rajdhani travel for Arjuna Award winners
28. Increase in passenger fare due to rise in prices in everything; fare hasn't been hiked in 8 years. Increase in fares in Express Trains: Second Class - 2 paise per km, AC 3 tier and AC Chair Car- 10 paise per km, AC 2 tier - 15 paise per km, AC First Class - 30 paisa per km
29. Independent Railway Tariff Regulatory Authority
    
    
    proposed
30. Suburban travel fare increased by 2 paise per km
31. Rounding off of fares to avoid inconvenience. Fare of Rs 11 will become Rs 10. 
32. Railways will require Rs 14 lakh crore over next 10 years.
33. Increase in train speeds to 160 kmph considered which can reduce travel time from New Delhi to Kolkata by 3 hours.
34. Platform ticket prices increased to Rs 5.

RAIL BUDGET AND MUMBAI / NAVI MUMBAI

1. 75 new services to be introduced
2. Aim to introduce AC services between Churchgate and Virar, CST and Kalyan.
3. Elevated corridor from Churchgate to Virar in Mumbai being firmed up.
   
   
    
4. Seventy-five services to be added to suburban network.
5. Suburban travel fare increased by 2 paise per km
6. Conversion from DC to AC power supply completed in Mumbai's Western Railway corridor, conversion of DC to AC in Central Railway corridor to be completed in 2012-13.
7. 12 car rakes in harbour lines - Mumbai / Navi Mumbai
8. Elevated rail corridors from Churchgate to Virar - Mumbai
9. Direct connectivity of Navi Mumbai to other parts of the country 
10. Starting a coaching complex and terminal in Navi Mumbai.
11. Add impetus to connectivity between eastern-western corridors of Mumbai and increase connectivity between Panvel, Vashi and JNPT at Nhava Sheva.
12. Elevated Rail corridor plan in Mumbai

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Rail Budget 2011: Mamata Banerjee's Speech - Full Text

Mamata Banerjee's speech as she presented Railway Budget for 2011-12 was quite interesting. While reading out the Rail Budget, she recited several lines including :

Hum Aah Bhee Karte Hain Toh Ho Jaate Hain Badnaam
Woh Katl Bhee Karte Hain Toh Charcha Nahi Hota

Clearly, she played safe by indicating that critics will always find some flaws with the budget. Anyways, we will come to the interesting part of the speech a bit later.

For now, here's the complete text of Mamata Banerjee's speech as she presented Railway Budget for 2011-12.

Speech Text Courtesy: Indian Railways

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Mamata Banerjee's Railway Budget 2010 Speech Live Updates - Text

Mamata Banerjee started the speech by saying she had 2 considerations in mind: Viability of projects and social responsibility.

Mamata Banerjee announced Mission 2020 of short term and long term goals.

Here are the highlights, announcements and proposals of Mamata Banerjee's Railway Budget 2010 speech: http://bombay-local.blogspot.com/2010/02/mamata-banerjees-railway-budget-2010_24.html

• No hike in passenger fare
• Free travel for cancer patients in Third AC and sleeper class; 75 percent concession for companion
• A special task force to be set up to clear investment proposals within 100 days.
• Railway exams to be conducted in Hindi, English and Urdu languages
• Considering that bottled water turns out to be expensive for the passengers, Mamata Banerjee proposed 6 bottling plants that would help provide clean and fresh water at much cheaper rates. Plant locations - Ambala, Thiruvananthapuram, Farakka, Amethi and Nasik
• No privatization of railways
• Rs 1300 Crores to be allocated for amenities for passengers
• Improvement of security of women passengers
• 5 sports academies to be set up
• RFID technology for freight transport
• Launching of Double Decker trains (pilot launch)
• Ex-servicemen to be inducted to RPF (Mamata announced this after quoting Lata Mangeshkar's song  Zara yaad karo qurbaani)
• Insurance facility for licensed porters
• Women's RPF wing to be formed 
• Railways to set up Rabindra Museum in Howrah, Geetanjali Museum in Bolpur  
• Bharat Tirth train to mark Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary
• Special train during Commonwealth Games
• 101 new suburban trains in Mumbai
• New suburban trains in Chennai
• New train service to Bangladesh
• No increase in freight tarriff 
• High-speed dedicated passenger corridors
• Freight reduction on foodgrains and kerosene
• Houses for railway employees of 10 years
• 10 new Duronto trains  
• 54 new trains in 2010
• New tourist trains on tourist routes
• 80000 new wagons
• New Janmabhoomi train between Ahmedabad and Udhampur
• New Karmabhoomi train for working class
• Matribhoomi special trains for women
• Service charge on AC fares to be Rs 20 instead of Rs 40
• Mobile e-ticketing facility at hospitals, courts, universities, IITs, IIMs
• Design, Development and Testing centre to be set up at Bangalore
• Railway research centre at IIT Kharagpur
• 13000 unmanned level crossings to be converted to manned level crossings

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