NEW DELHI, July 8 � Following are the highlights of the Railway Budget 2014-15:
� No new increase in passenger fares and freight charges
� Bullet train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad Sector
� Diamond quadrilateral for high speed trains
� Plan to hike 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 revamped, ticket-booking through mobile phones, post offices to be popularised
� Online platform, unreserved tickets
� Combo parking-platform tickets at stations
� Women RPF constables to escort ladies coaches; 4,000 women constables to be inducted
� Retiring room facility to be extended to all stations
� Battery operated cars for differently abled and senior citizens at major stations
� Feedback services through IVRS on quality of food
� Food can be ordered through SMS, phone; Food courts at major stations
� Cleanliness budget up by 40 pc over last year
� CCTVs to be used at stations for monitoring cleanliness
� Setting up of corpus fund for stations� upkeep; RO drinking water at stations and trains
� Automatic door closing in mainline and suburban coaches
� 58 new trains and extension of 11; 864 additional EMUs to be introduced in Mumbai over 2 years
� FDI in railway projects, except in operations.
� FDI, domestic investments in rail infrastructure
� Office-on-Wheels: Internet & Workstation facilities on select trains
� Wi-Fi in A-1, A category stations and in select trains
� Rail university for technical and non-technical subjects
� Some stations to be developed to international standards through PPP model
� Parcel traffic to be segregated to separate terminals to make passenger traffic unhindered
� Loss per passenger per kilometre up from 10p (in 2000-01) to 23p (2012-13)
� Solar energy to be tapped at major stations
� Highest ever plan outlay of Rs 65,455 crore for 2014-15
� Expenditure in 2014-15 pegged at Rs 149,176 crore.