Railway Budget 2012: List of New Trains

Here is the list of new express trains, passenger trains, MEMU, DEMU, extension of run and increase in frequency of trains announced in Railway Budget 2012-13.

1. Kamakhya-Lokmanya Tilak (T) AC Express (Weekly) via Katihar, Mughalsarai, Itarsi

2. Secunderabad-Shalimar AC Express (Weekly) via Vijayawada

3. Bandra (T)- Bhuj AC Express (Tri-Weekly)

4. Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Udhampur AC Express (Tri-Weekly) via Ambala, Jalandhar

5. Coimbatore-Bikaner AC Express (Weekly) via Roha, Vasai Road, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur

6. Kakinada-Secunderabad AC Express (Tri-weekly)

7. Yesvantpur-Kochuveli AC Express (Weekly)

8. Chennai-Bangalore AC Double-decker Express (Daily)

9. Habibganj-Indore AC Double-decker Express (Daily)

10. Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shatabdi Express (6 days a week) via Malda Town

11. Kamakhya-Tezpur Intercity Express (Daily)

12. Tiruchchirappalli-Tirunelveli Intercity Express (Daily) via Madurai, Virudunagar

13. Jabalpur-Singrauli Intercity Express (Daily) via New Katni Junction

14. Bidar-Secunderabad Intercity Express (6 days a week)

15. Kanpur-Allahabad Intercity Express (Daily)

16. Chhapra-Manduadih Intercity Express (Daily) via Phephna, Rasra, Mau, Aunrihar

17. Ranchi-Dumka Intercity Express (Daily) via Deoghar

18. Barbil-Chakradharpur Intercity Express (Daily) via Dongoaposi, Jhinkpani

19. Secunderabad-Belampalli Intercity Express (Daily) via Kazipet

20. New Jalpaiguri-New Cooch Behar Intercity Express (5 days a week)

21. Ahmedabad-Ajmer Intercity Express (Daily)

22. Dadar (T) �" Tirunelveli Express (Weekly) via Roha, Coimbatore, Erode

23. Visakhapatnam-Chennai Express (Weekly)

24. Visakhapatnam-Sai Nagar Shirdi Express (Weekly) via Vijayawada, Manmad

25. Indore-Yesvantpur Express (Weekly) via Itarsi, Narkher, Amravati, Akola, Kacheguda

26. Ajmer-Haridwar Express (Tri-Weekly) via Delhi

27. Amravati-Pune Express (Bi-weekly) via Akola, Purna and Latur

28. Kacheguda-Madurai Express (Weekly) via Dharmavaram, Pakala, Jolarpettai

29. Bikaner-Puri Express (Weekly) via Jaipur, Kota, Katni Murwara, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur

30. Secunderabad-Darbhanga Express (Bi-weekly) via Ballarshah, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Ranchi, Jhajha

31. Bilaspur-Patna Express (Weekly) via Asansol, Jhajha

32. Howrah-Raxual Express (Bi-weekly) via Asansol, Jhajha, Barauni

33. Bhubaneswar-Bhawanipatna Link Express (Daily) via Vizianagaram

34. Puri-Yesvantpur Garib Rath Express (Weekly) via Visakhapatnam, Guntur

35. Sai Nagar Shirdi-Pandharpur Express (Tri-weekly) via Kurduwadi

36. Bhubaneswar-Tirupati Express (Weekly) via Visakhapatnam, Gudur

37. Visakhapatnam-Lokmanya Tilak (T) Express (Weekly) via Titlagarh, Raipur

38. Howrah-Lalkuan Express (Weekly) via Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Lucknow

39. Kolkata-Jaynagar Express (Weekly) via Asansol, Jhajha, Barauni

40. Dibrugarh-Kolkata Express (Weekly)

41. Firozpur-Sriganganagar Express (Daily) via Fazilka, Abohar

42. Jaipur-Secunderabad Express (Weekly) via Nagda, Bhopal, Narkher, Amravati, Akola

43. Okha-Jaipur Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Ajmer

44. Adilabad-Hazur Sahib Nanded Express (Daily) via Mudkhed

45. Shalimar-Chennai Express (Weekly)

46. Mysore-Sai Nagar Shirdi Express (Weekly) via Bangalore, Dharmavaram, Bellary

47. Valsad-Jodhpur Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Marwar

48. Porbander-Secunderabad Express (Weekly) via Viramgam, Vasai Road

49. Bandra (T) �" Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Phulera

50. Hapa-Madgaon Express (Weekly) via Vasai Road, Roha

51. Bikaner-Bandra(T) Express (Weekly) via Jodhpur, Marwar, Ahmedabad

52. Ahmedabad-Gorakhpur Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Mathura, Farrukhabad, Kanpur

53. Durg-Jagdalpur Express (Tri-Weekly) via Titlagarh

54. Mannargudi-Tirupati Express (Tri-Weekly) via Thiruvarur, Villupuram, Katpadi

55. Gandhidham-Bandra (T) Express (Weekly) via Morbi

56. Kota-Hanumangarh Express (Daily) via Jaipur, Degana, Bikaner

57. Jhansi-Mumbai Express (Weekly) via Gwalior, Maksi, Nagda

58. Secunderabad-Nagpur Express (Triweekly) via Kazipet

59. Kanpur-Amritsar Express (Weekly) via Farrukhabad, Bareilly

60. Chappra-Lucknow Express (Tri-Weekly) via Masrakh, Thawe, Padrauna

61. Karimnagar-Tirupati Express (Weekly) via Pedapalli

62. Anandvihar-Haldia Express (Weekly) via Mughalsarai, Gomoh, Purulia

63. Barrackpore-Azamgarh Express (Weekly) via Jhajha, Ballia, Mau

64. Indore-Rewa Express (Tri-weekly) via Bina

65. Running of independent train between Jabalpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin by delinking from 12405/12406 Bhusawal-Hazrat Nizamuddin and 12409/12410 Raigarh-Nizamuddin Gondwana Express

66. Darbhanga-Ajmer Express (Weekly) via Raxaul, Sitapur, Bareilly, Kasganj, Mathura

67. Solapur-Yesvantpur Express (Tri-weekly) via Gulbarga

68. Chennai-Puri Express (Weekly)

69. Hyderabad-Ajmer Express (Weekly) via Manmad, Itarsi, Ratlam

70. Asansol-Chennai Express (Weekly) via Purulia, Sambalpur, Vizianagaram

71. Shalimar-Bhuj Express (Weekly) via Bilaspur, Katni, Bhopal

72. Amritsar-Hazur Sahib Nanded Express (Weekly)

73. Santragachi-Ajmer Express (Weekly) via Kharagpur, Chandil, Barkakana, Katni, Kota

74. Malda Town-Surat Express (Weekly) via Rampur Hat, Asansol, Nagpur

75. Dwarka-Somnath Express (Daily)

Passenger Trains

1. Koderma-Nawadih Passenger (6 Days)

2. Sriganganagar-Suratgarh Passenger (Daily)

3. Yerraguntla-Nosam/Nanganapalli Passenger (Daily)

4. Villupuram-Katpadi Passenger (Daily)

5. Gunupur-Palasa (via Parlakhemundi) Passenger (Daily)

6. Ajmer-Pushkar Passenger (5 Days)

7. Kota-Jhalawar City Passenger (Daily)

8. Bareilly-Kasganj Passenger (Daily)

9. Anandnagar-Barahani Passenger (Daily)

10. Rangiya-Tezpur Passenger (Daily)

11. Mysore-Shravan belgola (Daily)

12. Jodhpur-Bilara Passenger (Daily)

13. Villupuram-Mayiladuthurai Passenger (Daily)

14. Rohtak-Panipat Passenger (Daily)

15. Miraj-Kurudwadi Passenger (Daily)

16. Phulera-Rewari Passenger (Daily)

17. Mysore-Chamarajanagar Passenger (Daily)

18. Gorakhpur-Siwan Passenger (Daily)

19. Running of independent Passenger trains between Rewa-Bilaspur and Rewa-Chirmiri by delinking from 51751/51752 Rewa-Bilaspur Passenger and 51753/51754 Rewa-Chirmir Passenger

20. Mysore-Birur Passenger via Arsikere (Daily)

21. Jhansi-Tikamgarh Passenger via Lalitpur

MEMU

1. Dahod-Anand

2. Anand-Gandhinagar

3. Bina-Bhopal MEMU service in lieu of conventional services

4. Palakkad-Coimbatore-Erode

5. Ernakulam-Thrisur

6. Adra-Asansol

7. Adra-Bishnupur via Bankura

8. Sealdah-Lalgola 

DEMU

1. Baripada-Bangriposi(Daily)

2. Masagram-Matnashibpur (Daily)

3. Mannargudi-Trichy-Manamadurai (Daily)

4. Hoshiarpur-Firozpur (Daily)

5. Siliguri-Changrabandha (Daily)

6. Pratapnagar-Chota Udepur (Daily)

7. New Jalpaiguri-Bamanhat DEMU service in lieu of conventional services

Indian Railway Budget Highlights 2011

Yesterday (25th Feb 2011) Railway minister of India Ms Mamta Banergee Presented Railway Budget in Indian Parliament House for the Year 2011. Railway Declared 2011-12 as a "Year Of Green Energy".Some of the Highlights are:-

COMMON PEOPLE

# No increase in passenger fares and freight rates in FY 2011/12.

# New Express Trains, 3 new Shatabdis and 9 Duronto trains to be introduced.

# AC Double Decker services on Jaipur-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes.

# New Super AC Class to be introduced.

# A new portal for e-ticketing to be launched shortly.

# Booking charges will be cheaper with a charge of only Rs 10 for AC classes and Rs 5 for others.

# Pan-India multi-purpose smart card 'Go India' to be introduced.

# 236 more stations to be upgraded as Adarsh Stations.

# 47 additional suburban services in Mumbai and 50 new suburban services proposed for Kolkata.

# Two new passenger terminals in Kerala and one each in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal proposed.

# Feasibility study to raise speed of passenger trains to 160-200 kmph to be undertaken.

# A special package of two new trains and two projects for the states managing trouble free run of trains through out the year.

# Anti Collision Devise (ACD) sanctioned to cover 8 zonal railways.

# GPS Based 'Fog Safe' Device to be deployed.

# All unmanned level crossing up to 3000 to be eliminated.

# All India Security Help line on a single number set up.

NEW TRAINS

#New Janambhoomi trains Between Ahmedabad and Udhampur

# Krambhoomi Train for working class specially for Migrents.

# Bharat thirth train to be launched on Rabindranath Tagore's 150th Birth day Anniversary 

# Matribhumi Special Trains for Women

SOCIAL INITIATIVE

# A scheme for socially desirable projects, 'Pradhan Mantri Rail Vikas Yojana' with non-lapsable fund proposed.

# 10,000 shelter units proposed for track side dwellers in Mumbai, Sealdah, Siliguri, Tiruchirapalli on pilot basis.

# Concession to physically handicapped persons to be extended on Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains.

# Concession of 50 per cent to press correspondents with family increased to twice a year.

# Senior Citizens concession to be hiked from 30 per cent to 40 per cent.

# Medical facilities extended to dependent parents of the Railway employees.

# Scholarship for girl child of Group-D railway employees increased to Rs 1200 per month.

# 20 additional hostels for children of railway employees to be set up.

# Recruitment for 1.75 lakh vacancies of Group 'C' and 'D' including to fill up backlog of SC/ST initiated, 16,000 ex-servicemen to be inducted by March 2011.

# Free Journey for cancer patient in Sleeper and 3rd a/c & 75% concession for companion.

FACTS & FIGURE

# Gross traffic receipts estimated at 1.06 trillion rupees ($23.4 billion) in FY 2011/12

# Passenger numbers estimated to grow by 6.4 percent in coming financial year.

# Freight traffic estimated at 993 million tonnes in the coming financial year.

# Fresh investment of 576.3 billion rupees ($12.68 billion) into Indian Railways in the FY 2011/12.

INVESTMENT

# The government to provide 200 billion rupees ($4.4 billion) to Indian Railways in coming FY.

# Total amount of borrowing by Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC) estimated at 204.54 billion rupees ($4.5 billion) in FY 2011/12

# Tax-free bonds totalling 100 billion rupees ($2.2 billion) to be issued by IRFC in the coming financial year.

#Railways development bank Rail Vikas Nigam Limited to borrow 1.4 billion rupees ($30.9 million) in coming financial year.

#Total public-private partnership investments estimated at 15.26 billion rupees ($336.5 million) in FY 2011/12.

INFRASTRUCTURE

# 1,300 kilometres (808 miles) of new rail lines to be added in FY 2011/12.

# 18,000 new wagons to be purchased.

# Two wagon units to be set up in conjunction with private partners.

# 700 megawatt gas-based captive power plant to be set up.

# A Bridge Factory in Jammu and Kashmir and a state-of-art Institute for Tunnel and Bridge Engineering is proposed at Jammu.

# A Diesel Locomotive Centre will be set-up in Manipur.

#A Centre of Excellence in Software at Darjeeling proposed under the aegis of CRIS.

# Rail Industrial Parks at Jellingham and New Bongaigaon proposed.

# Additional mechanised laundry units to be set up at Nagpur, Chandigarh and Bhopal.

Budget Expectation 2010

This Year Finance Minister of India Mr Pranab Mukharji will present the Union Budget in the parliament for the Financial Year 2010-2011 on 26th February 2010. Everyone (Including all types of citizen of India & NRIs) is as eager to know the India Budget 2010 expectations as the final budget itself. After recession or Economic slowdown this is the 1st Union Budget will be going to  Present in front of the House.This year Corporate house have more expectation from this budget as well as Common people too.

Corporate House:- Corporate house is waiting for Some stimulus package for the industry.Specially IT & Banking industry most affected from this economic slow down.

Common People:- Common People Expectation have a  to control Sky Rocketing of the food prices.

This time Government should more focus on

1. Control on High Inflation Rate

2. Sky Rocketing Food Prices

3. Education Sector

4. Control on Government Expenditure.

5. Tax Rebate for Corporate & Individuals

6. More Focus on Priority Sector (Agriculture & Service) & ETC.

Taxes:

The common men and the corporates are looking for decrease in taxes. The Finance Minister is likely to augment exemption limit of individual taxes to Rs 3 lakh from Rs1.60 lakh for salaried people. Exemption limit for women is expected to be increased from 1.80 lakh to 4 lakh and for senior citizen from Rs 2 lakh to 5 lakh.

However, taxes levied on the perks availed by income earners are expected to be restructured on higher level. This arrangement may satisfy junior employees and senior citizens. But, it may not go well with the people belonging to higher position.

Corporate Tax:

A reduction of 30% is expected in the corporate tax. The expectation is found in line with the introduction of Direct Tax Code (DTC) suggesting a 25% rate. The individual rate was lowered by 30% previous year also.

Capital Gains Tax:

As far as the 2010 India Budget expectation in the area of capital gain tax is concerned, finance minister is unlikely to bring any reform in this category of tax. It is predicted to be included under the Direct Tax Code, to be implemented from April 2011.

Re-fixing of Tax Slabs:

As mentioned earlier, the tax slab for women is expected to be revised to 4 lakh and senior citizens to Rs 5 lakh. However, second and third slabs of tax would see significant change.

The second tax slab is expected to be augmented from the existing Rs 3 lakh to Rs 1 million to be taxed at 20%. The third slab is likely to be increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 25 lakh to be taxed at the rate of 30%.

These revisions would act in favor of the reputed advocates as well as the doctors.

Stimulus:

India Budget 2010 speculations suggest that it is not the right time for the government to roll back stimulus packages, despite the fact that GDP growth of the nation in the Q2 (July – September) of the current fiscal stood at 7.9%.

However, experts believe that government would withdraw few of the subsidies from the market. The oil companies were aided with the stimulus package to check loss. Government did not allow the Oil companies to raise product costs of kerosene and diesel, which would have forced the common men to pay more.

As high prices of diesel and petrol would bear adverse effect on the transport rates of food products, the stimulus packages are expected to continue in the oil industry. However, partial withdrawal of the stimulus aid can be expected in this sector to tackle the situation of increasing fiscal deficit.

Agriculture Sector:

According to India Budget 2010 expectations, the agriculture sector would be the highlight of the session. This sector is likely to receive enormous boost from the government. Finance minister's invitation to the farmers for the pre-budget meet is held to be the main reason behind such speculation.

Infrastructure and Social Sector:

Infrastructure industry is also expected to be the focus of the budget results of 2010. Many believe that development in this sector would account for massive growth in GDP. However, it is unlikely to ease monetary policy to better infrastructure. Interest rate cannot be reduced as well.

Other Sectors:

While taking into account the India Budget 2010 expectations of various sectors, it was found that the garment industry of India is looking for considerable cut in interest rates in its exports segment. The garment exporters also want the ministry to remove all the confusion faced in the case of excise as well as custom duties. The sector wants major commercial as well as fiscal relief. Similarly, the Indian tea industry is expecting to get an allocation of more than Rs 130 crore, which was granted in the fiscal year 2009-10.

List are many and expectations are more. In a very few days the government will open their magic box to lure the Indian Common people or they will only for the Corporate House.