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लालू रेलवे बजट
Lalu brings budget with mass appeal

• Passenger trains will have 22% more capacity
• Two per cent cut in AC-Fares.
• 43 new trains to be introduced in FY-2010.
• Feasibility study for Delhi-Patna Bullet train going on.
• Rail passenger growth up 14%.
• 43 new trains to be introduced in FY-2010.
• Freight rate to remain unchanged.
• Railways to spend Rs 4000 crore on pensions.
• To invest Rs 2.3 cr in the next five years.
• Railways has invested Rs 38,000 crore in 2008-09.
• 6th Pay Commission implementation to hike expense by Rs 13,500cr.
• Railways cash reserves touch Rs 90,000 crore .
• 4 call centres set up for rail enquiry.
• Customers can now book tickets online.
• Profits registeres without hurting the common man.
• Railways managed 8 per cent growth in freight loading.
• Freight capacity up by 78%.
• Railways got loans at 4%.
• Mishap rate has dropped drastically.
• Lalu: Our Rail Budget has always been for the poor.
• This would be UPA's last railway budget during this term.
• The budgetary support to the railway plan will be about Rs 10,800 crore, representing a significant step up of 37 per cent compared with Rs 7,874 crore in 2008-09.
• Government officials said the minister was keen on gifting lower fares to the janata in an election year despite resistance within the ministry.
• Expectations are that Lalu Prasad's populist budget for 2009- 10 will include a substantial investment of Rs 12,000 crore for the ambitious East-West freight corridor.
• Lalu Prasad Yadav looks all set to keep his date with history when he rises to present the interim rail budget in Lok Sabha.