2020 presented the last seperate rail budget in india.
2020 presented the last seperate rail budget in india.
who presented the last seperate rail budget in india?
2020
the inauguration of the gatimaan express by railway minister mr. suresh prabhu on 5 april 2016 ushered the beginning of semi-high speed trains in india. the gatimaan express runs at the top speed of 160 km/hr from delhi to agra. with the great success of gatimaan express, the indian railways plans to start additional semi-high speed services along the delhi - bhopal / chandigarh / kanpur routes shortly. railway minister mr sadananda gowda mentioned in his rail budget 2014 speech that the railways will start high speed trains at on 9 routes.indian railways is also testing to increase the speed of the delhi-mumbai rajdhani express train. dual locomotives are used for this purpose, one at each end. thus accelerating and decelerating from both ends. proposed increased speed will be 160kmph between delhi-mathura stretch and 130kmph for the remaining stretch. while indian railways is bringing bullet train from japan, it is doing all possible things to cut down the cost for high speed rail operation by indigenously developing technologies.
high-speed rail in india
jan sadharan express trains are series of passenger services operated by indian railways on the lines of rajdhani express, jan shatabdi express, etc. jan sadharan express trains are fully unreserved trains thereby providing cheaper transport aimed at common people. the services were first announced during the interim rail budget on 30 january 2004. muzaffarpur–ahmedabad jansadharan express and muzaffarpur–lokmanya tilak terminus jansadharan express, were announced as weekly service during the full rail budget on 6 july 2004, of which the latter was introduced on 2 october 2004 along with new service of hajipur–ahmedabad jansadharan express. during 2007–2008 railway budget, a new route of chhapra–chhatrapati shivaji terminus jansadharan express was added to the list. during 2008–2009 railway budget, amritsar–saharsa jan sadharan express was introduced. during 2009–2010 interim railway budget, barauni–delhi jan sadharan express was introduced. during 2014–2015 railway budget, 5 more jan sadharan express trains were introduced, which were ahmedabad – darbhanga jan sadharan express, jaynagar – mumbai jan sadharan express, mumbai – gorakhpur jan sadharan express, gorakhpur - amritsar jan sadharan express, saharsa – anand vihar jan sadharan express and saharsa - amritsar jan sadharan express.
jan sadharan express