Railway
Min Dinesh Trivedi is likely to spell out a blue print for upgrading
signalling and telecommunication system to prevent accidents in the
upcoming Rail Budget despite financial constraints.
Besides, the Rail Budget will have proposals for state-of-the-art coach manufacturing units in Karnataka and Gujarat.
Railways
which has sought Rs 50,000 crore from Finance Ministry as gross
budgetary support (GBS), has got only Rs 25,000 crore for the next
fiscal from the central kitty.
The
multi-crore action plan for upgradation of the system is slated to
cover the 19,000 km long major trunk route such as New Delhi-Mumbai and
New Delhi-Kolkata and New Delhi Delhi-Chennai corridors.
"The upgradation exercise is a long-term plan to be carried out in a phased manner," said a source in the railways on Monday.
In-cab
signalling system, similar to the technology followed in European
countries and already available with Delhi Metro, would be aggressively
taken up by the railways, a mention of which is expected in Trivedi's
budget speech on 14th March.
Keen on introducing high speed trains, Trivedi is also likely to announce a new bullet train corridor for Rajasthan.
The
591-km Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur route is slated to be taken up for
pre-feasibility study for introducing bullet trains, which run at a
speed of 350 km per hour, and an announcement to this effect is likely
to be made on 14th March.
Trivedi could also announce a proposal for induction of trains sets, which run at 200 km per hour, on the Delhi-Mumbai route.
A
train set consists of a high horse power electronic locomotive with
about 10 modern coaches and is estimated to cost Rs 200 crore.
Green
initiatives are also likely to get a big boost this time as a proposal
for manufacturing as many as 2,500 environmental-friendly toilets could
be included in the budget.
The Rail Budget 2012-13 is also slated to have measures for improving passenger amenities at stations and trains.
No comments:
Post a Comment