Rail Budget 2010-11, presented by Union Railway Minister Ms Mamta Banerjee, through the 2020 vision, laid the roadmap for long term plans of railways.

Highlight Of Railway Budget 2010-11

• No increase in passenger fares and freight tariffs.
• Free travelling for Cancer Patients in AC3
• No examination fee for women, minority and economically backward class candidates for Railway Recruitment Boards exams.
• Question papers now will be made available in local state languages besides Hindi, Urdu and English, examinations will be held on the same day in all regions.
• Modern luggage trolleys with uniformed attendants to assist senior citizens and women passengers.
• Six clean bottling plants to provide cheaper, clean drinking water to passengers.
• 12 companies of women RPF personnel, ‘Mahila Vahini’, for the security of women passengers.
• Service charges on e-tickets reduced.
• E-ticket vans to be extended to Government Medical College Hospitals, Courts, Universities, IT hubs, IITs and IIMs.
• SMS updates of reservation status and movement of wagons.
• Ticket centres to be opened at district headquarters and village panchayats.
• 117 new train projects to be flagged off by the end of March 2010.
• 52 long distance express trains and 28 passenger trains to be introduced.
• Frequency of 12 trains will be increased and 21 trains will be extended.
• Special trains to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary for ladies, uniformed persons and tourists.
• Double Decker coaches to be introduced in two trains each from Delhi and Kolkata.
• 94 stations to be upgraded as Adarsh Stations, 10 more stations to be upgraded as World Class Stations
• Automatic fire and smoke detection system to be introduced in 20 trains.
• All the unmanned Level Crossings to be manned within five years.
• Rs 41,426 crore outlay proposed, allocation for new lines increased to Rs 2,848 crore from Rs 4,411 crore.
• More money to improve passenger amenities – Rs 1,302 crore in comparision to Rs 923 crore in 2009-10.
• Railway revenue through branding/advertising to go up from Rs 150 crore to Rs 1,000.
• Special Task Force to clear investment proposals within 100 days .
• Concession in freight charges for food-grains and domestic use kerosene.
• Kisan Vision Project for manufacturing refrigerated containers.
• Allotment of iron ore rakes would be accessible through the web. RFID technology to be introduced for tracking of wagons.
• Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route.
• 93 new multi-functional complexes to be developed.
• National High Speed Rail Authority proposed to plan high speed rail corridor.
• Houses for all Railway Employees in next 10 years.
• 522 hospitals, 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 10 residential schools, model degree colleges, technical and management institutes for railway employees.