* To promote sports, cultural and extra-curricular activities, indoor stadium will be developed at Bongaon near the India-Bangladesh border

* To open nursing colleges on railway’s land in Kolkata

* Medical college will be set up at Barasat, B R Singh Hospital

* The Metro Railway Hospital at Tollygunge is proposed to be upgraded to a 75-bed hospital.

* The Indian Railways has planned to acquire 18,000 wagons under rolling stock programme as against 11,000 wagons in 2008-09. Railway budget proposes to initiate the process for taking over wagon units of Burn Standard.

* Railway Budget proposes to take over Basumati Sahitya Mandir, a state Public Undertaking in West Bengal

* Proposal to set up a new coach factory at Kanchrapara-Halisahar railway complex, where EMU/MEMUs and Metro coaches will be produced.This unit will be set up in a joint venture on a Public-Private Partnership mode.

* Howrah having been declared as a world class station, there is a need to segregate the suburban services to accommodate upgraded facilities. In this context, decongestion of Howrah by shifting suburban services to Saltgola will also be undertaken. Plans to undertake the following works:

a) Dakshineswar-Dum Dum-Barrackpore metro extension

b) Development of terminal at Majerhat

c) Majerhat-Diamond Harbour via Joka

d) Majerhat to Diamond Harbour, including Kidderpore-Garden Reach-Budge Budge

e) Dum Dum to Garia via Rajarhat

... contd.