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Lalu to spice up 'good old' railways
Published on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 16:55, Updated on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 19:35 in Business section
Tags: Union Budget 2008, Rail Budget , New Delhi
FUN-FILLED TRAVEL: Railway Minister Lalu Yadav received bids from Adlabs, Tatas and Sahara TV.
New Delhi: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is likely to roll out innovative measures in the rail budget on February 26. That may include on-board entertainment and fast food facilities along with other amenities as also strategies for energy conservation and safety steps in the wake of the Samjhauta train blasts recently.
On the lines of entertainment provided by Airlines, Lalu may announce launching of this scheme beginning with Shatabdi Trains, Rail Bhawan sources said.
The Ministry, they said, had already received bids from a number of companies for this, including Reliance Infocomm and Adlabs, Tatas and Sahara TV. The bids are yet to be finalised.
Facing a daunting task of providing safe journey to its passengers in the wake of recent Delhi-Atari train link blasts near Panipat, the Railway Minister may come out with a new comprehensive plan to deal with situation taking also into account the growing threats from naxals and militants in several parts of the country.
With PTI inputs
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while adding entertainment and clean food is laudable,cleaning and making triains and stations of toilet stink should have been 1st
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I subscribe to the view. If there is any step which benefits the millions of train travelling passengers, let us
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Chidambaram, was Pramod Mahajan, a Yadav? No. So he is innocent. Mistake is in Lalu's caste. We upper caste don't
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Dont be so pessimistic Kumar (I hope you are not Nithish Kumar)! If he brings out a reform of any
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Dont be so pessimistic Kumar (I hope you are not Nithish Kumar)! If he brings out a reform of any
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