MAA

Weekly AC, sitting-only “Yuva” trains on Delhi-Calcutta and Mumbai-Delhi routes

Monthly Calcutta Metro tickets with 60 per cent concession for students up to Class XII and madarsa students

More jobs for women, minorities, poor, Dalits, tribals and physically challenged

Doctors on long-distance trains; ambulance services in seven cities

Ladies Special office-hour EMU suburban trains in Calcutta, Delhi and Chennai

Cheap Janata Khana offering national and regional cuisine

Women personnel for women passengers’ security

Special coaches for the physically challenged and aged

MATI

19 new trains for Bengal. 12 from Calcutta / Howrah / Sealdah. Metro Rail to be extended on two stretches

Coach factory at Kanchrapara-Halishahar, North 24-Parganas

Talks to take over ailing wagon units such as Burn Standard and Braithwaite

1,000MW power plant at Adra in Purulia

l4 Duranto (fast) non-stop trains. Howrah-Mumbai, Howrah-Delhi, Sealdah-Delhi and Calcutta-Amritsar (all biweekly)

3 rail hospitals — 2 in Calcutta and1 in Barasat — to be upgraded to medical colleges. Nursing college in Barasat

Survey to find out if tracks can be laid for 22 new lines, including in Singur, Nandigram and Lalgarh

5 world-class stations and several model stations in Bengal

Dedicated freight corridor linking Calcutta with Ludhiana

Railway “land banks” to be used for industry

MANUSH

Passenger fares, freight rates unchanged

Izzat monthly ticket of Rs 25 for up to 100km for those with monthly income up to Rs 1,500

Minimum Tatkal charges down from Rs 150 to Rs 100; advance-booking period cut from five days to two

SMS updates on wait-listed tickets

Commandos against attacks by Maoists and others

On-board infotainment, improved linen, automated laundries on some trains. Trials on vacuum toilets (as in planes)

A/C double-decker trains for inter-city travel

57 new trains; extension of 27 trains, increase in frequency of 13 trains

Mushkil Asan scheme to issue tickets through mobile vans; ticket-vending machines at 200 large and medium stations; 1,000 new passenger reservation locations

50 stations to be “world class”; 375 “Adarsh” (model) stations with safe drinking water, toilets and ladies’ dormitories

Accredited journalists to get 50 per centrebate, once a year with spouse

Complexes with shopping malls, food stalls and budget hotels at 50 stations serving centres of pilgrimage, tourism and industry