- Vision 2020: Vision 2020 presented in December, 2009 to the
Parliament envisages
- Indian Railways achieving a high growth of 10% per annum
- rapid expansion and modernization network and services
- augmentation of capacity
- delivery of low cost and high quality service
- It also reiterates its resolve to strengthen national integration, faster
inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth and generate large
scale employment to for the
people.
- New Era in Passenger Services
- Duronto: A new non-stop point to point passenger services
between select cities - 14 Durontos have been introduced.
- Matribhoomi: Ladies Only suburban services for working
women in Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai – 21
services
introduced
- Yuva trains: New low priced fast train services to cater to the
needs of youth and low income groups - 2 services introduced.
- Sanskriti Express –To mark the 150th birth anniversary of
Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore, a special train with a view to
disseminating his legacy to the young generation introduced.
- Expansion of services: 98 pairs of passenger carrying trains
introduced, run off 38 pairs of trains extended and frequencies
of 14
pairs of existing trains increased.
- Railways also proposed to introduce “Karmabhoomi trains”- unreserved trains for the common people, and a Commonwealth
Exhibition
train.
- Passenger Amenities
- No hike in passenger fares
- Adarsh stations: 378 stations identified for development with
basic facilities such as drinking water, adequate toilets, catering services, waiting rooms and dormitories especially for
lady passengers, better signage and other basic facilities –
work at 286 stations completed.
- IZZAT: A Rs.25 monthly season ticket free of all surcharges for
travel up to 100 kms for members of unorganized sectors
with monthly income not exceeding Rs.1500.
- Mushkil Aasaan: Mobile Ticketing Vans to issue reserved and unreserved tickets in urban and rural areas.
- Free monthly season ticket to students of Madarasa, High Madarasa and Senior Madarasa
- 100% concession for cancer patients in sleeper class and AC 3 tier.
- 277 new PRSs and 1740 new UTS locations have been added bringing another 7.88 crore passengers into the system.
- ‘Jan Ahar’ economy combo meals introduced at 25 outlets.
- On board catering services extended to passengers in sleeper class in Duronto Trains.
- 10 food plazas, 8 fast food units and 75 automatic vending machines commissioned all over Indian Railways.
- Mobile Catering Services extended to 295 trains ( an increase of 30 over previous year)
- Freight Operation
- Railways reversed the trend of loading in the current year by achieving a 6.56% growth over the last year.
- Lead went up from 646 to 659 kms in 2009-10 Computerisation of all control offices and area controls, and
crew lobbies completed.
- Freight Services
- New Freight Incentive Schemes
| |
i. |
|
for loading bagged consignment in open and flat wagons |
| |
ii. |
|
loading in empty flow direction |
| |
iii. |
|
for encouraging freight forwarders |
| |
iv. |
|
for incremental traffic |
- 359 additional locations from where computerised Railway Receipts
are being issued
- More than 50% of freight payment is through electronic mode.
Jump of 25.14% achieved.
- New initiatives
| |
i. |
|
Kisan Vision Project: For facilitating aggregation, storage |
| |
|
|
and movement of perishable cargo. Work has begun at |
| |
|
|
Singur and Nasik out of the six locations identified. |
| |
ii. |
|
Automobile and Ancillary Hubs: For facilitating aggregattion |
| |
|
|
and distribution of automobile traffic, 10 locations |
| |
|
|
identified out of which one at Shalimar has been |
| |
|
|
operationalised. |
| |
iii. |
|
New Schemes for Private Freight Terminals, Special Freight |
| |
|
|
Train Operators on the anvil |
- Recruitment
- Waiver of examination fees for women candidates, minority
candidate
s and candidates belonging to economically backward
classes with
annual incomes less than Rs.50,000 in
RRB
examinations.
- Questions papers to be set in local languages listed in the
8th
Schedule of the Constitution in addition to Hindi, Urdu
and English.
- Examination on the same date by all RRBs for a particular
post
- New RRB opened at Siliguri
- Infrastructure
- New Line/Doubling/Gauge Conversion
| |
i. |
|
258 kms New Lines (target 250 kms), Gauge Conversion |
|
|
|
1516 kms (target 1300 kms), Doubling 448 kms (target |
|
|
|
500 kms) |
| |
ii. |
|
Qazigund- Annatnag section completed – entire line in the |
| |
|
|
Kashmir Valley from Qazigund to Baramulla commissioned |
| |
iii. |
|
Rs.1338 crore spent on projects in Northeast Region as |
| |
|
|
against Rs.1120 crore in the previous year. |
- Total Coach manufactured by ICF and RCF combined exceed
3000
Coaches per annum for the first time.
- DLW produced 258 diesel locomotives and CLW 220 locomotives
both of which are the highest ever.
- First prototype air-conditioned Double Decker coach turned
out
in
March’10.
- ICF has also turned out 4 rakes of DMUs with toilets facility
- 3250 route kms of OFC, 2599 route kms of quad cable and
700
kms
of Mobile Train Radio Communication commissoned.
- 342 stations panel interlocked, BPAC at 502 block sections
installed
and 474 level crossing gates interlocked.
- 3840 kms of track renewal and rehabilitation of 1294 bridges
undertaken.
- 377 number of level crossings have been manned and 80
number
of Road Over Bridges built.
- 1117 Rkm have been electrified – Highest ever.
- Safety: Decline in number of consequential train accidents from
177 in
2008-09 to
162 in 2009-10
- Security:
- An integrated security system for 202 sensitive stations of
the
country has been sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs. 353 crore.
- 3 Railway Protection Special Force battalions have been sanctioned
- Tourism: Successful launching of Maharajas’ Express, a pre
mium
tourist train running on Pan India Itineraries.
- Projects
- Dedicated Freight Corridor
- Engineering Services Loan agreement for Western DFC
Phase-I (Rewari-Vadodara) signed with JICA on
27.10.2009
- First main loan agreement for Western DFC phase-I
signed with JICA on 31.03.2010.
- Loan agreement with World Bank for project preparation
facility for Eastern DFC signed in July 2009.
- Setting up of ancillary unit for CLW at Dankuni for manufacture of
loco shells and propulsion equipment.
- Electric loco factory at Madhepura – RFP for Joint Venture issued
- Diesel Loco factory at Marhowrah – RFP for JV issued.
- Setting up of New Rail Coach Factory at Kachrapara to manufacture
500 EMU/MEMU Coaches per year.
- Setting up of 1320 MW Thermal Power Plant at Adra
- MOU with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for setting up
Medical OPD and Diagnostic centre
- MOU with Ministry of HRD for setting up 50 Kendriya Vidyalaya
on
Railway land.
- MOU with IIT, Kharagpur for establishment of Railway Research
Centre.
- Setting up of Multi-functional complexes - work taken up at 12
places.
- Announcement of setting up of Medical Colleges, Nursing Colleges
on PPP.
|
