Railway Budget: Lalu announces 2% cut in AC rail fares

Railway Budget: Lalu announces 2% cut in AC rail fares

AC, Mail, Express fares cut by 2%

13 Feb 2009, 1252 hrs IST

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav on Friday announced fare cut in AC and mail express trains by 2%. He also announced the introduction of 43 new trains and kept freight rates unchanged.

Read Lalu's 09-10 Railway Budget speech

43 new trains introduced

Poet Lalu at Play

Rly to invest Rs 230K cr in 11th plan

Railways have scaled new highs

Lalu basks in glory of Railway safety

• 43 new trains introduced
• Now, book waitlisted e-tickets too
• Wagon makers receives shot-in-arm from Lalu
• Rail budget eyes polls: BJP
• New Trains introduced for FY-10
• Extension of Trains
• Increase in train frequency
• New line Surveys

Railways at a glance

Rly to invest Rs 230K cr in 11th plan
Lalu said the Railways will invest Rs 230K cr in the eleventh plan. Upgradation plan includes renewal of 2,941 km railway tracks that will require about 339,228 tonnes of steel and renewal of sleeper sheets along 2,382 km of railway lines.


Source:ET