Union Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday presented the Railway Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.
The highlights are as follows:
Reservation system will be revamped and ticket-booking through mobile phones and post offices popularized
Wi-fi services in all A Category stations and trains
To have diamond quadrilateral network for high-speed trains
Allocated Rs. 100 crore for high- speed rail network digital reservation charts at stations
Automatic ticket vending machines will be introduced to save the time of passengers
Will have paperless offices, mobile based wake up calls for passengers will be introduced
We are introducing a bullet train between Mumbai - Ahmedabad route.
We are planning to set up a Railway University for both technical and non-technical subjects.
