New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will present his maiden Budget in Parliament at 12 noon on Thursday and people have high hopes from the Narendra Modi government. Sources said the focus of Budget will be on attracting investment, modernisation of trains through Wifi and transparency in railway systems. While a fare hike is unlikely across the board, a cess for cleanliness cannot be ruled out.
Prabhu is likely to unravel his grand plans of how to decrease the cross-subsidy for passenger service from freight earnings which is touching Rs 24,000 crore and the steps to increase goods transportation share in the national transporter with or without hiking fares.
Even Twitterati are not left far behind in voicing their expectations from the Railway Budget.
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expecting trains will run on time specially in foggy weather. #RailBudget2015— Pradeep Singh (@psk_eng) February 26, 2015
Expecting if fares are hiked, atleast we see those funds being used somewhere for general public and not kept in party fund.#RailBudget2015— Gabruu Singh (@GabruuSingh) February 26, 2015
Will we get renaming of AP Express into T express and a new AP Express and a new Rajdhani express for AP?#RailBudget2015— Bhaskara Venkatesh (@bhaskarav) February 26, 2015
I hope Suresh Prabhu talks about Bio Toilets and women security in this #RailBudget2015— Harmeet Singh (@HarmeetSSangha) February 26, 2015
I hope my mother doesn’t have to call me 1000 times while I am travelling. 100% security #RailBudget2015— Rusha Chakraborty (@matyboo) February 26, 2015
#RailBudget2015. Work in maintenance mode, clear all pending projects, make a clean and secure infrastructure rather than being populist.— Ashish (@abis3067) February 26, 2015
Indian commuter has moved ahead, uses smartphone, wants mobile real time transit info, efficient railway. Move ahead! #RailBudget2015— G.Ananthakrishnan (@ganant) February 26, 2015
Clean Trains, Good Food, WiFi enabled are basic prerequisites from a #RailBudget2015— Karthik (@tallboykarthik) February 26, 2015
Pantry and Sanitation in train both are big problems in Indian Rail .#Railbudget2015— kUnAL (@kunalrv) February 26, 2015
I agree, India needs bullet trains too, but get the basic facilities like clean toilets, drinking water in place first— Prashant V. Singh (@PVSNetwork18) February 26, 2015
Cleanliness, provision of basic amenities, security and timeliness of the trains should be the focus areas #RailBudget2015— Jagdeep Singh (@jgdpsingh) February 26, 2015
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