* No increase in passenger fares and freight tariffs.
* Service charges on e-tickets reduced.
* E-ticket vans to be extended to Government Medical College Hospitals, Courts, Universities, IT hubs, IITs and IIMs.
* SMS updates of reservation status and movement of wagons.
* Ticket centres to be opened at district headquarters and village panchayats.
* 100 per cent concession for cancer patients alongwith an escort.
* Modern luggage trolleys with uniformed attendants to assist senior citizens and women passengers.
* Six clean bottling plants to provide cheaper, clean drinking water to passengers.
* 12 companies of women RPF personnel, ‘Mahila Vahini’, for the security of women passengers.
* No examination fee for women, minority and economically backward class candidates for Railway Recruitment Boards’ exams.
* Question papers now will be made available in local state languages besides Hindi, Urdu and English, examinations will be held on the same day in all regions.
* 117 new train projects to be flagged off by the end of March 2010.
* 52 long distance express trains and 28 passenger trains to be introduced.
* Frequency of 12 trains will be increased and 21 trains will be extended.
* Special trains to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, for ladies, for uniformed persons and for tourists.
* Double-decker coaches to be introduced in two trains each from Delhi and Kolkata.
* 94 stations to be upgraded as Adarsh Stations, 10 more stations to be upgraded as World Class Stations
* Automatic fire and smoke detection system to be introduced in 20 trains.
* All the unmanned Level Crossings (LCs) to be manned within five years.
* Rs 41,426 crore outlay proposed, allocation for new lines increased to Rs 2,848 crore from Rs 4,411 crore.
* More money to improve passenger amenities – Rs 1,302 crore in comparision to Rs 923 crore in 2009-10.
* Railway revenue through branding/advertising to go up from Rs 150 crore to Rs 1,000.
* Special Task Force to clear investment proposals within 100 days .
* Concession in freight charges for food-grains and domestic use kerosene.
* Kisan Vision Project for manufacturing refrigerated containers.
* Allotment of iron ore rakes would be accessible through the web.  RFID technology to be introduced for tracking of wagons.
Multi-level parking complexes through PPP route.
* 93 new multi-functional complexes to be developed.
* National High Speed Rail Authority proposed to plan high speed rail corridor.
* Houses for all rail employees in next 10 years.
* 522 hospitals, 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 10 residential schools, model degree colleges, technical and management institutes for railway employees.