ailway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday sought investment from business houses under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to improve passenger amenities being provided in trains.
During the launch of three new trains through remote control, Prabhu said there was a need for capacity enhancement of Railway infrastructure and improvement in passenger amenities. “Investment under CSR can be made in the passenger amenities area to provide better facilities to customers,” he said.
According to him, Railways will soon concretise proposals in this regard. The trains flagged off from Rail Bhawan were the Mumbai- Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express, Pune-lucknow Express (weekly) and the Bidar-Mumbai Express (weekly). All three trains are part of the Budget announcements.
Prabhu has now flagged off a total of 11 trains since Monday and more are to start during the next couple of days. sail.The 17.1 metre, 23 tonne boat built of wood core fibre glass has a 25 metre mast. It has five sails — one each of mainsail, Genoa, Jib, two Gennakers and a Storm Jib.