‘Social, not just economic viability should be yardstick’

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Raghvendra Rao Tags : Railway projects, Mamata Banerjee Posted: Friday , Jul 03, 2009 at 0129 hrs

At Parliament with Budget papers.

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For the record, the Railways fell short of its freight loading target in the last fiscal by 17 million tonnes forcing Banerjee to scale down this fiscal’s target from 910 million tonnes to 880 million tonnes.

Trying to cash in on the Railways’ formidable property bank, Banerjee said land along the new freight corridor would be put to productive use and also said the Railway operator would resume issuance of tax-free bonds.

She also said the Railways would build a 1,000 MW electricity plant to power electric locomotives and look at introducing double-decker trains and take advantage of the fibre-optic communications network.

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Rail Budget 2009By: D.A.Srinivasan | 06-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Sir,Regarding he comfort of passegers travelling by sleeper class I would like to say that the reservation has lost its meaning in most of the trains.Short distance passengers, vendors. beggears and ticketless travellers encroach upon the space meant for the authorised passengers. T,T,Es. do not bother to restrict the entry of such trvellorsThis causes great inconvenience.Can our present railway minister ensure that the the comfort of the sllper class passengrs are protected.Srinivasan

Will it be Done!By: Saurov | 04-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Indian Railways have been the key life line of the growth

Roof for Railway PlatformsBy: V. Sivasankaran | 04-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Let Mamata errect Roof for the entire platform length atall Railway Stations. In most of the stations, we can findthat passengers get drenched the moment got down from the train or while waiting for the train to board in. Before she do the book stalls, malls, entertainment etc let her give priority for this suggestion in the interest of the passengers safty

Railway BudjetBy: Sampath | 04-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward The Railway budjer fulfilled only 50% of my expectations. Passenger tarif cut is ok but the freight tarif couldhave been raised by 0.5%. It looks as if the existing bumber of trains would be siufficient. We need more trains in the same route and we need more two ways...In the infracture field the RailWay is very poor.

bad argumentBy: arun kumar | 04-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward A strong person or organisation can only help lift deprived or weak.One who walks on crutches can never be of any help to other.I once again quote Late Sarabhai - "We need computers to grow more bread".This reply came when some one ask do we need computers or bread? Rail budget must address needs of passenger safety, comforts, modernisation, freight and for social upliftment we have HRD,and Social welfare Ministry. She failed to rise over partisan attitude and announced schemes tobe implemented in WB, while Orissa, Andhra, and region of J

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