Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has allocated Rs1,490 crores to South East Central Railway (SECR) in the Railway Budget 2015-16.
The fund would be utilized for implementation of SECR’s several key projects including laying of new railway tracks doubling, gauge conversion, passenger amenity, safety and security, maintenance of staff quarters and other modes.
SECR Chief Operating Manager (COO) Vijay Kumar Joshi told media persons here on Thursday that SECR has received more funds for various modes which would help them in capacity augmentation, resource mobilization and technology up-gradation.
Joshi said that the Union Railway Minister has outlined four goals including delivering a sustained improvement in customer experience, making Railways a safer means of travel, modernizing infrastructure of Railways, expand capacity and make Railways financially self-sustainable for improvement in the Indian Railways over the next five years.
He said that ahead of bio-toilets Railways will now introduce vaccum toilets to prevent water wastage also a 24x7 helpline No-138 on real-time basis for attending passenger problems and security related complaints.
Joshi said that for the safety of women passengers surveillance cameras would be installed in the coaches.
After sanction of the funds, the SECR would soon start working on the seven new sanctioned projects and conduct survey of three other projects besides constructing Rail Over Bridges (ROB) and Rail Under Bridges (RUB) to eliminate the level crossings and improving traffic facilities, he said.