Rail Budget highlights: UP and Bihar gets nothing

(Divye Joshi in http://idharudhar24x7.blogspot.in/)Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda has presented the first rail budget of Modi government. Modi’s home state Gujarat has got many new trains and also first bullet train. But states like UP and Bihar which sent around 100 NDA MPs, have been ignored in this rail budget.
Gowda has announced that the first dedicated bullet train project will be launched on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route.



Railway Minister has proposed FDI in railway sector also. Notably, BJP’s home minister Rajnath had opposed the FDI in rail during UPA tenure
NEW TRAINS


Jansadharan Trains


i)                   Ahmedabad–Darbhanga Jansadharan Express via Surat

Ii    Jaynagar–Mumbai Jansadharan Express

ii)                Mumbai–Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express

iv) Saharasa–Anand Vihar Jansadharan Express via Motihari

v)  Saharasa–Amritsar Jansadharan Express



Premium Trains

i)                   Mumbai Central–New Delhi Premium AC Express

ii)                Shalimar–Chennai Premium AC Express

iii)              Secunderabad-­ Hazrat Nizamuddin Premium AC Express

iv)              Jaipur–Madurai Premium Express

v)                 Kamakhya–Bengaluru Premium Express



AC ExpressTrains


i)                   Vijayawada­NewDelhiAPExpress(Daily)

ii)                LokmanyaTilak(T)–Lucknow(Weekly)

iii)              Nagpur–Pune(Weekly)

iv)              Nagpur–Amritsar(Weekly)

v)                 Naharlagun–NewDelhi(Weekly)

vi)                Nizamuddin–Pune(Weekly)


Express Trains



i)                   Ahmedabad–Patna Express(Weekly)via Varanasi

ii)                Ahmedabad­ Chennai Express(Bi­weekly)via Vasai Road

iii)              Bengaluru –Mangalore Express(Daily)

iv)              Bengaluru –Shimoga Express(Bi­weekly)

v)                 Bandra(T)–Jaipur Express(Weekly)Via Nagda,Kota

vi)               Bidar–Mumbai Express(Weekly)

vii)            Chhapra–Lucknow Express (Tri­ weekly)viaBallia,Ghazipur,Varanasi

viii)         Ferozpur–Chandigarh Express(6 days a week)

ix)               Guwahati–Naharlagun Intercity Express(Daily)

x)                  Guwahati–Murkongselek Intercity Express(Daily)

xi)               Gorakhpur–Anand Vihar Express(Weekly)

xii)             Hapa–Bilaspur Express(Weekly)via Nagpur

xiii)         Hazur Saheb Nanded–Bikaner Express(Weekly)

xiv)          Indore–Jammu Tawi Express(Weekly)

xv)            Kamakhya–Katra Express(Weekly)via Darbhanga

xvi)          Kanpur–Jammu Tawi Express(Bi­weekly)

xvii)       Lokmanya Tilak(T)–Azamgarh Express(Weekly)

xviii)     Mumbai_Kazipeth Express(Weekly)via Balharshah

xix)          Mumbai–Palitana Express(Weekly)

xx)            New Delhi ­Bhatinda Shatabdi Express(Bi­weekly)

xxi)          New Delhi–Varanasi Express(Daily)

xxii)       Paradeep–Howrah Express(Weekly)

xxiii)     Paradeep–Visakhapatnam Express(Weekly)

xxiv)     Rajkot–Rewa Express(Weekly)

xxv)        Ramnagar–Agra Express(Weekly)

xxvi)     Tatanagar Baiyyappanahali  (Bengaluru) Express(Weekly)

xxvii) Visakhapatnam–Chennai Express(Weekly)



Passenger Trains



i)                   Bikaner–Rewari Passenger(Daily)

ii)                Dharwad–Dandeli Passenger(Daily)via Alnavar

iii)              Gorakhpur–Nautanwa Passenger(Daily)

iv)              Guwahati–Mendipathar Passenger(Daily)

v)                 Hatia–Rourkela Passenger

vi)              Byndoor–Kasaragod Passenger(Daily)

vii)            Rangapara North–Rangiya Passenger(Daily)

viii)         Yesvantpur–Tumkur Passenger(Daily)

MEMU services

i)          Bengaluru –Ramanagaram 6 days a week(3Pairs)

ii)        Palwal–Delhi–Aligarh

DEMU services



i)         Bengaluru –Neelmangala (Daily)

ii)        Chhapra–Manduadih (6days a week)via Ballia

iii)       Baramula–Banihal (Daily)

iv)       Sambalpur–Rourkela (6 days a week)

v)        Yesvantpur ­Hosur (6 days a week)

EXTENSION OF RUN OF EXISTING TRAINS

i)          22409/22410 Anand Vihar Sasaram Garib Rath Express to Gaya

ii)        12455/12456 Delhi Sarai Rohilla Sriganganagar Express to Bikaner

iii)       15231/15232 Gondia Muzaffarpur Express to Barauni

iv)       12001/12002 New Delhi Bhopal Shatabdi Express to Habibganj

v)        54602 Ludhiana–Hissar Passenger to Sadulpur

vi)       55007/55008 Sonpur–Kaptanganj Passenger  to   Gorakhpur

vii)      55072/55073 Gorakhpur–Thawe Passenger toSiwan

viii)     63237/63238Buxar–Mughalsarai MEMU toVaranasi

ix)       63208/63211Jhajha–PatnaMEMUtoJasidih

x)        64221/64222LucknowHardoi MEMU to Shahjahan pur

xi)       68002/68007Howrah–Belda MEMU to Jaleswar

Highlights of the Railway Budget:

* No new hike  in passenger fares and freight charges
* Bullet train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route
* Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains
* Plan to increase speed of trains to 160-200 km/hr in 9 sectors
* Online booking to support 7,200 tickets/minute; to allow 1.2 lakh users log in simultaneously
* Reservation system to be overhauled, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularised
* Online platform, unreserved tickets
* Combo parking-platform tickets at stations