Union Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday presented the Railway Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.
The highlights are as follows:
Reservation system will be revamped and ticket-booking through mobile phones and post offices popularized
Wi-fi services in all A Category stations and trains
To have diamond quadrilateral network for high-speed trains
Allocated Rs. 100 crore for high- speed rail network digital reservation charts at stations
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Automatic ticket vending machines will be introduced to save the time of passengers
Will have paperless offices, mobile based wake up calls for passengers will be introduced
We are introducing a bullet train between Mumbai - Ahmedabad route.
We are planning to set up a Railway University for both technical and non-technical subjects.
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