What are your Expectations from the railway budget?

My expectations are very basic and yet I know I am going to be disappointed once again. I expect that there is enough provision in the budget to keep all the railway stations clean and provide clean, potable drinking water in all the railway stations!

I expect more safety measures, more general class compartments and senior citizens, handicapped compartments. There should be concession for handicapped or blind but senior citizens and ladies need no concession in fare. Rather they need better facilities and safety. There should also be an ambulance coach in each long journey train with qualified doctor, staff and other facilities.

My expectations are very basic and yet I know I am going to be disappointed once again. I expect that there is enough provision in the budget to keep all the railway stations clean and provide clean, potable drinking water in all the railway stations!

Yes, absolutely!!!
Many of the long running trains when reach Thiruvananthapuram, don't even have water and about its cleanliness, it is better not to mention. Yes, many of the basic needs are yet to be improved.

The Indian Railways is facing acute funds crunch and I don't see how it is going to overcome it. Corruption,inefficiency, tall promises and little action on the ground are some of the familiar problems and every Railway Minister uses this grand occasion to befool us.This time a moderate hike in passenger fares is very much on cards!

I do not except much more I only want there should be ticket available on urgent basis. I always feel afraid whether I will get ticket confirm or not. Other facilities are secondary things.

They say, they need 1 lac 40 thousand crores to keep railways going but are getting around 1lac as revenue and to top it all they have to pay 50 thousand crores to Union government. So there is nothing much they can do but to hike the fair. Why can't they stop corruption to increase revenue?

I think Safety should get the first priority than new train.

My expectation is that they don't increase much fare of sleeper and general category as the people who travell in these categories can't afford much if they could then they would have prefferd airlines. :)

[quote]The Indian Railways is facing acute funds crunch and I don't see how it is going to overcome it. Corruption,inefficiency, tall promises and little action on the ground are some of the familiar problems and every Railway Minister uses this grand occasion to befool us.This time a moderate hike in passenger fares is very much on cards! [/quote]

I only hope the hike is moderate and not very high! Now only the railway tickets are cheaper compared to other modes of transportation and very poor people can still afford to buy them!

The railway Budget has been presented. The Railway Minister has announced hike in fare in all classes despite direction to contrary by his party organization head. According to him, railway needs Rs. 14 lakh crore in next ten years for implementing several schemes.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-Budget-2012/Chunk-HT-UI-IndiaBudget2012-RailwayBudget2012/Rail-Budget-Rs-14-lakh-crore-required-in-10-yrs-for-railways-says-Trivedi/SP-Article1-824969.aspx

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-Budget-2012/Chunk-HT-UI-IndiaBudget2012-TopStories/Don-t-mind-losing-my-job-says-Trivedi-after-Mamata-rejects-rail-fare-hike/SP-Article1-825279.aspx

Railway has good budget and money but still general public not able to get ticket at the time of requirement.

Friends I aspect a lot from this budget. However before going deep into those points, railways should change the quality of food provided to the passangers in the trains. Secondly, railway accidents should be checked which was frequent previous year.

Fare increased in all class but very minimum .After all this is a good budget.

Railway has good budget and money but still general public not able to get ticket at the time of requirement.

Ever increasing population is the cause of rush at ticket window, reservation counter. Number of passengers increases constantly and any increase in Railway tracks, number of trains and bogies does not help. This is true everywhere- roads, schools, hospitals etc.

Fare increased in all class but very minimum .After all this is a good budget.

Fare increased.....
Many trains are announced at every railway budget. How much time will it take to implement new trains?

Every railway minister implements the announcements mostly in his/her own areas, rest go to bite the dust.

At a glance:
Trivedi announced that passenger fare for sub-urban trains hiked by 2 paisa per km, mail trains by 3 paisa per km. Express train fares are up by 5 paisa per km, 10p per km for a/c chaircar, 10p per km for a/c 3-tier, 15 p per km for a/c 2-tier and 30p per km for a/c 1st class.
Key highlights of Budget 2012

* Logistics Corporation will be created to provide logistics solutions for rail users.

* Budgetary support pegged at Rs 25,000 crore for the coming year against projected requirement of Rs 45,000 crore.

* 14 new rail line surveys to be taken up in 2012-13.

* 725 km of rail tracks completed in the current year, Rs 6,725 crore more for fresh tracks.

* All meter gauge, narrow gauge sections to be made broad gauge, except heritage lines, by end of 12th Five Year Plan.

* 31 projects of over 5,000 km being implemented with the support of state governments.

* Railways to take up linking of Agartala to Akura in Bangladesh.
* Special housekeeping body to be set up to maintain stations and trains.

* All effort will be made to improve hygiene in trains and stations in the next six months.

* All Garib Rath trains to have one special AC coach for differently-abled people.

* Railways to replace open discharge toilets with green toilets. 2,500 coaches will be equipped with bio-toilets by next year.

* Rail Khel Ratna awards to be given to rail sportsmen every year.

* Railways to recruit more than one lakh people in 2012-13.

* Railway Board to be restructured, two more members to be included.

* 75 new express passenger trains to be introduced.

* Guru Parikarma special trains to cover Sikh pilgrimage centres of Amritsar, Patna and Nanded.

* Expansion of suburban rail networks and addition of more services in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.

Surplus with railways at Rs 1,492 crore in current year as against targeted Rs 5,258 crore.

Railways to carry 55 million tons more freight at 1025 million tonnes in 2012-13.

Passenger earnings to increase to Rs 36,200 crore. Gross traffic receipts Rs 1,32,552 crore.

* Gross rail traffic targeted to increase by Rs 28,635 crore to Rs 1,32,552 crore in 2012-13.

* Finance Ministry agrees to loan Rs 3,000 crore to Railways at 8.55 per cent interest.

* Body of experts to examine setting up of an independent Railway Tariff Regulatory Authority.

So the increase in fare has come! Nothing much to interest me!

Increase in fare plus not to mention the party politics in top gear. Blame game begins now>>>>>>>>>>>

Its good budget but there is not any announcement to improve existing rail system.