Railway Budget 2013-14 budget highlights

2. Safety
Fiscal
Discipline Consotionlida
Passenger
Amenities

3. Total Budget Allocation
Annual Plan 2013-14
Highest ever plan outlay of `63363 cr.
Gross Budgetary Support - `26,000 cr
Railway Safety Fund - `2,000 cr
Internal Resources - `14,260 cr.
EBR - Market Borrowing - `15,103 cr;
EBR - PPP - `6,000 cr.

4. Budget Highlights
• 22 new lines to be taken up in 2013-14
• Superfast and Tatkal charges to rise
• 67 new Express trains to be introduced; 27
new passenger trains; run of 58 trains to be
extended
• New debt service fund to be set up
• Will close fiscal 2012-13 with fund balance
against previous deficit; need to build fund
balance to Rs.30,000 crore by end of 12th Plan

5. • *Operating ratio of 88.8 percent achieve
• *Dividend reduced from 5 to 4 percent
• *Electrification of 1,200 km to be completed
this year
• *72 additional suburban services in Mumbai
and 18 in Kolkata
• *No increase in passenger fares

6. Fiscal Discipline
• *Rs.6,600 crore increase in earnings from fare adjustment
in January
• *Rs.63,363 crore investment in 2013-14
• 1,047 million tonnes freight loading estimated during 2013-
14
• *Passenger earnings of Rs 42,000 crore estimated in 2013-
14
• *Indian Railways Institute of Financial Management to be
set up at Secunderabad
• *Chair at Delhi to promote research in reducing carbon
footprint
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7. Consolidation
• *Complementary first class passes for parents of
unmarried posthumous awardees of Maha Vir Chakra,
Vir Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra
• *Complementary passes of freedom fighters to be
renewed every three years instead of annually
• *New wheel factory to be set up at Rae Bareli
• *Greenfiled EMU manufacturing facility at Bhilwara
• *Railway energy management company to be set up to
harness solar and wind energy
• Winners of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Dhyan Chand
awards to get free first class passes

8. • *1,000 crossings to be energised by solar
power
• *1.51 lakh vacancies to be filled up
• *Locomotive cabs to be air-conditioned
• *Azadi Express to be introduced to travel to
places associated with freedom struggle
• *India in 1 billion tonne freight club

9. • *By end of 2013-14, 1,500 km of contracts to
be awarded for two dedicated rail corridors
• *Rs.1 lakh crore target set for public-private-
partnership route

10. Passenger Amenities
• Free Wi-Fi to be provided on some trains
• *Rs.100 core for improving stations in New Delhi
• 179 escalators and 400 lifts at A 1 and other
select stations
• ticketing through mobile phones
• *SMS alerts for passengers on reservation status
• *Next generation e-ticketing system by end of
2013

11. Safety
• Seventeen bridges identified for repair
• *Smoke and fire detection system envisaged
• *Fire extinguishers to be kept in guard vans
• Corporate plan for 10 years to be drawn up
• Raised four companies of women RPF personnel,
and another eight to be raised for women's safety
• *Six more Rail Neer bottling plants to be set up

13. • *Losses mounted from Rs.22,500 crore in
2011-12 to Rs.24,600 crore in 2012-13
• *Planning Commission pegged 12th Plan at
Rs.125.19 lakh crore
• *Fall in accidents - per million accidents down
from .41 to .13
• *Aim to eliminate 31,846 level crossings