Highlights of Railway Budget 2012-13 (Part 11)

New Delhi, Mar 14 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday presented the railway budget in Lok Sabha.

The highlights of the Railway Budget 2012-13 are as follows:

Propose to introduce 75 new express trains, 21 passenger trains

Railways to hire one lakh employees in 2012-2013

Guru Parikrama special trains to run through Amritsar, Patna, Nanded routes

Propose to set up housekeeping committee for train and station hygiene

Plan to set up three disaster management training centres at Bengaluru, Kharagpur and Lucknow

Introduction of alternate train accommodation system for wait-listed passengers on other trains

Twenty one escalators to be installed at important stations

Propose to raise passenger amenities allocation from Rs762 crore to Rs1012 crore

Connectivity to join Agartala with Akura in Bangladesh

75 new services in Mumbai to be introduced

2,500 coaches to be equipped with green toilets in pilot projects

Propose Rs 4,410 core for capacity augmentation works

Plan to set up Indian Railway Station Organisation to redevelop, maintain stations on the lines of airports

Railways will require Rs 14 lakh crore in the next 10 years for modernisation. (ANI)