Railway budget 2013-14: Highlights
Posted on: 26/Feb/2013 1:06:30 PM
* Recruitment of RPF is being conducted with 10% reservation for women
* 12th Plan railway size to be Rs 5.19 lakh crore, with gross budgetary support of Rs 1.94 lakh crore.
* The new e-ticketing system will be able to bear the load of simultaneous login of 1,00,000 users. The present capacity stands at 40,000
* SMS alert service being rolled out shortly to intimate passengers about reservation status
* Railways to set up six more Rail Neer bottling plants
* Free wi-fi facility to be provided in select trains
* Allocation of Rs 1,000 crore each made for railway land development authority and railway station development authority
*47,000 vacancies for weaker sections and physically challenged to be filled up soon.
*Modest 5-6% hike in passenger fares will add to corpus, and translate into better amenities
*No fresh hike in passenger fares
*27 new passenger trains to be introduced
