New Delhi, Feb 13 : Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today announced reduction in passenger fares for non sub-urban mail/express and ordinary passenger trains by one rupee for fares costing up to fifty rupees per passenger.

While introducing the Interim Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Lok Sabha today, he said that since the fare for rail travel for 10 km and below has already been reduced from four rupees to one rupee, this reduction will not be applicable for second class rail journey up to 10 km.

New Delhi, Feb 13 : Railway Minister Lalu Prasad

New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has proposed to increase the frequency of several train services while introducing the Interim Railway Budget for
2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today.

These trains are:

1. 2423/2424 New Delhi - Guwahati/Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express from 5 days to 6 days.
2. 2443/2444 Bhubaneshwar - New Delhi Rajdhani Express from 2 days to 4 days
3. 2395/2396 Ajmer - Rajendra Nagar Ziyarat Express from Weekly to Bi-weekly
4. 2211/2212 Nizamuddin - Bapudham Motihari - Garib Rath from weekly to Bi-weekly

New Delhi, Feb 13 : Railway Minister Lalu Prasad while presenting the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today, announced the introduction of 43 new trains which include four Garib Raths.

These are:

* Bilaspur-Tirunelveli via Thiruvananthapuram Express (Weekly)
* Ranchi-Jaynagar Express (Tri-Weekly)
* Secunderabad-Manuguru Superfast (Daily)
* Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly)
* Bhopal-Lucknow Junction Garib Rath Express (Weekly)
* Durg-Jaipur Express (Weekly)
* Chhatrapati Sahu terminal (Kolhapur)-Dhanbad Link Service via Parasnath (Weekly)

New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today presented Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today.

The highlights of the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 are as follows:

Review of Financial Performance during the year 2008-09

* Freight loading target retained at 850 mt; number of passengers likely to grow by around seven per cent over previous year.

New Delhi, Feb 13: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today said that in the last five years, there has been a significant improvement in railway safety and a steep reduction in the number of railway accidents.

Presenting the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today, he informed that the number of consequential accidents had come down to 194 in 2007-08, as against 325 in 2003-04.