Budget response #1: rail

The rail budget has provided a major boost for the growth of infrastructure sectors.

Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal announced on Wednesday introduction of 19 new train services, extension of three and increase in frequency of five trains acceding to demands of MPs.

The projects launched on Thursday had been announced in the rail budget 2013-014. Sonia Gandhi's constituency Rae Bareli had, in fact, got maximum goodies in this year's rail budget. Keeping in view the approaching Lok Sabha elections, railways has initiated ...

Opposition, including Bharatiya Janata Party, Left and other parties, on Tuesday walked out of the Lok Sabha, charging the government with indulging in one scam after another and saying they would not be party to the passage of the Finance Bill and the Railway Budget. The Opposition protest came after Speaker Meira Kumar announced that the money bills would be passed without discussion, as decided by leaders of parties at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee on Monday. Maintaining that ...

Kerala did not get expected projects in rail budget, says CM

Budget 2013-14 has proposed formation of a new regulator for road sector and in Rail budget there has been a announcement for tariff regulator.

Quite many rail users in Patna were disappointed at denial of superfast trains like Duronto to Bihar, particularly on the Patna-Bangalore, Patna-Delhi and Patna-Mumbai routes, in the Rail Budget presented in Parliament by railway minister Pawan Bansal on ...

Govt sought BJP's support to pass the Rail Budget and Finance Bill. With only nine working days left in this session, the govt wants to get them passed at the earliest.

A day after NCP, a key ally of UPA, expressed grave disappointment over the rail budget, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today said he is ready to talk to the party to sort out the issue.