Banerjee says her priorities would include better passenger amenities, safety and security, and provision of good quality food and drinking water.
The railway ministry has plans to develop important stations through private-public partnership. These include CST Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Howrah, Sealdah, Varanasi, New Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur, Chennai Central, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Secunderabad, Bangalore City, Byappanahalli, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Habibganj, Agra Central, Chandigarh, Kolkata, New Jalpaiguri, Puri and Kochi.
Railways to develop multi-functional complexes with shopping malls, food stalls, medicines and variety stores in different parts of the country.
Infotainment services to be provided on major, long-distance trains.
One doctor to be posted on long-distance trains.
SMS updates on wait-listed tickets to be introduced.
Auto-vending machines to be installed in large and medium stations.
High-capacity air-conditioned double-decker trains to be introduced on select inter-city routes.
Unreserved ticketing terminals to be expanded from 5,000 to 8,000.
Automatic ticket vending machines to be increased. Arrangements will be made with the department of posts for issuance of tickets.
An Integrated Security System is being developed for 130 vulnerable stations to provide security to passengers.
Railway medical colleges to be developed along with rail hospitals on public-private partnership.
Seven nursing colleges to be set up on railway land in places including Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
Better representation to be given to minorities, women and the economically backward in railway recruitment. Special recruitment drives to be launched to fill vacancies in the physically-handicapped category.
18,000 wagons to be acquired during the current year.
The railways are making efforts to take over ailing wagon-manufacturing units, like Burn Standards, along with the department of heavy industries.
New policy to be launched for construction and operation of private freight terminals.
Railways to develop cold storage facilities for farmers to store vegetables and fruits.
Super-fast parcel express trains to be started on a pilot basis between Delhi and Chennai, and Delhi and Mumbai.
Land banks will be set up to be used for industry.
A new coach factory with state-of-the-art facilities, exclusively for manufacturing 500 coaches per annum, to be set up at Kanchrapara in West Bengal. Work on coach factory in Rae Bareli to be speeded up.
Railways to set up a 1000 MW power plant.
Ladies' specials to be introduced in suburban trains during peak hours.
Freight loading target for 2009-10 set at 882 million tonnes, an increase of 39 million tonnes.
Photo ID cards-cum-credit cards to be given to accredited journalists. Travel concession has been increased from 30% to 50% for them.
Twelve non-stop, point-to-point trains between select cities to be introduced -- Howrah-Mumbai, Delhi-Lucknow, Delhi-Chennai, Delhi-Pune, Delhi-Allahabad, Howrah-Delhi and Sealdah-Delhi.
The railways will receive an additional budgetary support of Rs5000 crore in the current year.
Ernakulum-Delhi, Qazigund-Anantnag rail section in Kashmir to be completed by August.
Tatkal scheme to be reviewed. The minimum Tatkal charge to be Rs100, down from the earlier charge of Rs150.
No increase in passenger fares and freight tariff.