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New trains in Rail Budget 2016: One of the highlights for the travelling public across India in Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's speech today was the introduction of three select train services, Humsafar, Tejas and UDAY for reserved passengers. Humsafar would be fully air conditioned third A C service with an optional service for meals.
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Most of rail-related companies stocks fell on Thursday after the Rail Budget 2016 failed to enthused investors. The BSE Sensex closed 112.93 points down at 22,976.
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New trains in Rail Budget 2016: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said Indian Railways will also introduce overnight double-decker – Utkrisht Double Decker Air-Conditioned Yatri (UDAY) Express on the busiest routes, which has the potential to increase carrying capacity by almost 40 per cent.
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Indian Railways fares: The Indian Railways is one of the world's largest organisations in terms of employees and caters to millions of people's transportation needs on a daily basis. Indian Railways is therefore, much in demand even though its financial health tends mostly towards the negative. However, here we are talking not about all of that, the Union Budget 2016 has already revealed most of the information (Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's budget has kept passenger fares and freight rates unchanged. A slew of measures has been announced for travel comfort. But the operational efficiency has taken a beating even as concerns remain over raising money for future projects – this is crux of Rail Budget 2016.). Instead we are focussing on what passengers, the most crucial part of the entire process, are checking for the most, the Indian Railways fare chart:
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New trains in Rail Budget 2016: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said Indian Railways would also add two to four Deen Dayalyu coaches in some long distance trains for unreserved travel to enhance the carrying capacity for the people. These coaches will also have facility for potable drinking water and a higher number of mobile charging points.
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New trains in Rail Budget 2016: "Every customer is our brand ambassador, the very reason of our existence. Therefore, each time that he or she travels, the satisfaction quotient must go up", Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said at the outset before announcing the services.
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New trains in Rail Budget 2016: Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu also said government would continue to provide better passenger services making railway journey enjoyable and strive hard to ensure satisfaction of each of 7 billion passengers that ride Indian Railways network annually.
