Salient Features of the Railway Budget 2013 Pertaining to South Central Railway

The Railway Budget 2013-14 has been presented by Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, Hon’ble Minister for Railways in the Parliament today (i.e.) 26^th February, 2013.

Salient Features of Railway Budget 2013 pertaining to SCR are detailed below:

A. MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS

1.Setting up of a Coach Mid-Life Rehabilitation (MLR) Workshop at Kurnool in collaboration with the State Government.

2.Setting up of an exclusive centralized institute for the Finance officers at Secunderabad - Indian Railways Institute of Financial Management (IRIFM).

3.Setting up of a Rail Neer Bottling Plant at Vijayawada.

4.Under National Skill Development Programme of the Government, Railways would impart skills to the youth in Railway related trades at Kazipet.

5.Setting up of a Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) car shed at Kurnool

B. PROJECTS

• New Line Projects to be taken up o­n Socio-Economic consideration (after obtaining necessary approvals/clearances)

1.Cumbum-Proddatur

2.Kondapalli-Kothagudem

3.Manuguru-Ramagundam

4.Srinivasapuram-Madanpalli

• New Lines to be completed in 2012-13

1.Devarakadra-Krishna (Part)

2.Gulbarga-Sultanpur

3.Marikel-Makhtal

4.Raichur-Pandurangaswamy (Part)

• New Lines to be completed in 2013-14

1Kadapa-Pendlamarri

2Mortad-Armoor-Nizamabad

• New Line Surveys to be taken up during 2013-14

1.Dornakal-Miryalguda

2.Mancherail-Adilabad via Utnoor

3.Siddipet-Akkanapet

4.Washim-Mahur-Adilabad

• Doubling Surveys to be taken up during 2013-14

1.Dharmavaram-Pakala

2.Mahbubnagar-Gooty

3.Parbhani-Manmad

4.Secunderabad-Mudkhed-Adilabad

5.Tirupati-Katpadi

• Doubling Works to be completed in 2012-13

1.Esivi-Kupgal

2.Kosgi-Mantralayam

3.Manchiriyal-Mandamari

4.Venkatachalam-Nidiguntapalem

• Doubling Works to be completed in 2013-14

1Nidiguntapalem-Krishnapatnam

2Raghavapuram-Peddampet

• Sections to be Electrified in 2012-13

1.Kondapuram-Vemulpadu

2.Gooty-Taticherala

C. NEW TRAIN SERVICES

• Originating Express Trains (08)

1. Chennai – Nagarsol (For Sai Nagar Shirdi) Express (Weekly) Via Renigunta, Dhone, Kacheguda
2. Kakinada – Mumbai Express (Bi-weekly)
3. Kurnool Town – Secunderabad Express (Daily)
4. Mangalore – Kacheguda Express (Weekly) Via Dhone, Gooty, Renigunta, Coimbatore
5. Nizamabad – Lokmanya Tilak (T) Express (Weekly)
6. Tirupati – Puducherry Express (Weekly)
7. Tirupati – Bhubaneswar Express (Weekly) Via Visakhapatnam
8. Una / Nangaldam– Hazoor Saheb Nanded Express (Weekly)Via Anandpur Saheb, Morinda, Chandigarh, Ambala

• Originating Passenger Trains (03)

1. Nandyal – Kurnool Town Passenger (Daily)

2.Purna-Parli Vaijnath Passenger (Daily)

3.Chennai-Tirupati MEMU Service

·Pass Through Mail/Express Trains (08)

1. Ajni (Nagpur) – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express (Weekly) via Hingoli
2. Bikaner – Chennai AC Express (Weekly) Via Jaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Nagda, Bhopal, Nagpur
3. Gandhidham – Visakhapatnam Express (Weekly) Via Ahmedabad, Wardha, Ballarshah, Vijaywada
4. Howrah – Chennai AC Express (Bi-weekly) Via Bhadrak, Duvvada, Gudur
5. Kamakhya (Guwahati) – Bangalore AC Express (Weekly)
6. Jabalpur – Yesvantpur Express (Weekly) Via Nagpur, Dharmavaram
7. Patliputra (Patna) – Bangalore Express (Weekly) Via Chheoki
8. Visakhapatnam – Kollam Express (Weekly)

• Extension of Originating Trains (06 )

1.17005/17006 Hyderabad-Darbhanga Express to Raxaul after gauge conversion

2.17011/17012 Hyderabad- Belampalli Express to Sirpur Kaghaznagar

3.22107/22108 Mumbai CST-Latur Express to Hazoor Saheb Nanded

4.57502/57503 Bodhan-Kamareddi Passenger to Mirzapalli

5.67277/67278 Falaknuma-Bhongir MEMU to Jangaon

6.77676/77677 Miryalguda-Nadikudi DEMU to Piduguralla

• Extension of Pass Through Trains (02)

1.12577/12578 Darbhanga-Bangalore Express to Mysore

2.12507/12508 Guwahati-Ernakulam Express to Thiruvananthapuram

• Increase in Frequency of Originating Trains (05)

1.22615/22616 Coimbatore-Tirupati Express 3 to 4 days

2.17213/17214 Narsapur – Nagarsol (Near Sainagar Shirdi) Express 2 to 7 days

3.18509/18510 Visakhapatnam – Hazoor Saheb Nanded Express 2 to 3 days

4.18309/18310 Sambalpur – Hazoor Saheb Nanded Express 2 to 3 days

5.12751/12752 Secunderabad – Manuguru Express 3 to 7 days

• Increase in Frequency of Pass Through Trains (02 )

1.12687/12688 Madurai – Dehradun/Chandigarh Express 1 to 2 days

2.22819/22820 Visakhapatnam – Lokmanya Tilak (T) Express 2 to 7 days

Summary of New Train services

Year	Mail / Express			Passenger	Grand Total
	Originating	Pass Through	Total	Originating	Originating	Pass Through	Total
2013-14	8	8	16	3	11	8	19

Summary of Extensions & Increase in Frequency of Train services

Year	Extension			Increase in Frequency
	Originating	Pass Through	Total	Originating	Pass Through	Total
2013-14	6	2	8	5	2	7

D. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS UNDER SOME OF THE MAJOR HEADS FOR FY 2013-14

·Rs.124 Crores (Crs.) have been allotted towards Passenger Amenities, as against the revised grant of Rs.100 Crs. for FY 2012-13.

·Rs.437 Crs. have been allotted towards construction of New Lines, as against Rs. 281 Crs of last year.