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The budget also contains proposals for multi-level parking
and setting up of clean drinking water bottling plants in six
places, including in Amethi, through PPP route and SMS updates
of reservation status and punctuality of trains to passengers
and movement of wagons to freight customers.
Safety and security proposals include introduction of
automatic fire and smoke detection system on 20 long distance
trains, manning of 13,000 unmanned level crossings and raising
of 12 companies of women Railway Protection Force (RPF)
personnel under 'Mahila Vahini'.
Infrastructure development includes modernisation and
augmenting of the capacity of Chittaranjan Loco Works from 200
to 275 locomotives and setting up of a Diesel Multiple Unit
factory in Sankrail in West Bengal.
A second unit of the Integral Coach Factory will be set up
in Chennai, while a Wagon Repair Shop will be set up in
Badnera near Amravati in western Indian state Maharashtra.
The budget also proposes to set up a new Rail Axle Factory
in New Jalpaiguri in PPP mode, centres of excellence in wagon
prototyping in Kharagpur Workshop and a Design, Development
and Testing Centre in Anara (Adra).
It also proposes setting up of five state-of-the-art wagon
factories in Secunderabad, Bardhaman, Bhubaneshwar/Kalahandi,
Guwahati and Haldia.
In freight business, a modified wagon investment scheme
for high capacity general purpose and special purpose wagons
will be introduced. Private operators will be permitted to
invest in infrastructure and run special freight trains.
The Railways also propose to set up automobile and
ancillary units at 10 locations. PTI