The Rail budget deserves to be commended for the valiant effort it makes to raise capacity and improve quality , boosting investment in the...

The general budget could also stagger or even pare allowances to government employees as per the Seventh Pay Commission award as these can ...

Today’s Railway Budget was indeed corporate-like, clinically focused on the issues that are afflicting Indian Railways, the world’s fourth ...

The customer-centric approach of the budget was underscored by initiatives such as Antyodaya Express and Deen Dayalu coaches for unreserved...

It also proposes to develop three dedicated freight corridors, draft a freight train timetable, increase the average speed of freight train...

"Long term freight contracts is a good commercial proposition but needs a further proactive approach," said Dr. Anant Sardeshmukh, Director...

"If you ask me specifically for the next year, I do not see anything clearly from the speech that something will help us."

"The brighter signal for the company has been when the minister talked about bar code ticketing"

"I think that he has basically maintained the continuity of direction that he had described last year."

"The good thing of course is a small caveat here; he has talked in terms of some differential tariffs, where you do have some kind of train...

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced the Rail Budget for 2016-17 in the Parliament. Following are the highlights.

Prabhu may resist from announcing any hike in passenger fares even as the transporter is under acute financial stress.

"Tying up of funding through LIC and through international agencies and multilateral agencies has been the core strategy of the government."

Upgradation of existing coaches with modern facilities and improved interiors are being planned in a big way to run trains on higher fares.

While announcement of new trains is unlikely for the second consecutive year, a scheme for high-speed parcel trains is slated to be unveile...

Gogoi requested for inclusion of double tracking of railway lines from Guwahati to Tinsukia for better, safer and faster links with the res...

The proposal is being considered against the backdrop of a decline in both passenger and freight earnings and the additional burden of Rs 3...