In a way, this budget has been epoch-making on account of advancing the budget date, subsuming Railway Budget with the Union Budget and eli...

Freight earnings are expected at Rs 118,156.50 crore in consonance with the loading target of 1,165 million tonnes (MT), which is 71.50 MT ...

A positive feature is that physical targets for 2016-17 have either been achieved or exceeded; there is great need for investment in safety.

Most of funds will go towards modernisation and safety heads. Station development is big on our agenda.

Railways plans to use funds for electrification, buying coaches, building new tracks and freight corridors, improving connectivity and pass...

The proposals suggested by the railways have all, more or less, been included and acted upon by the Finance Ministry, Railway Minister Sure...

He also said that Railways will get Rs 1,31,000 crore for capex and development expenditure in 2017-18.

IRCTC charges Rs 40 on every ticket booked in air-conditioned classes. For sleeper class, a service charge of Rs 20 is levied.

The rail ministry's budgeted plan outlay has gone up drastically it the past two years.

He said the works on both the projects had began after necessary approvals and sanctioning when he was was MoS for Railways in the UPA regi...

Talking about other initiatives for the North East region, Mukherjee said: "Arunachal Pradesh has been brought in the Railway map."

The Railways is expected to get the exemption from payment of dividend to the Union government, a move which will help to strengthen its fi...

The President has given nod to amend Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961 in this regard and the department will now pr...

The poetry recited so far in budget speeches has been quite diverse—from Urdu poet Allama Iqbal to Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar.

Railways to seek Rs 60,000 crore from Finmin, secure rest through LIC loan and IRFC bonds.

Rolling out a major reform agenda, the Modi government has done away with the practice of presenting separate Rail Budget in Parliament and...

The annual exercise of budgeting aims at detailing the roadmap for efficient use of public resources taking into account the socio-economic...