Click to play videoNew Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee made many promises while presenting the Railway Budget in 2009 but not all of then have been kept.
She even flagged off 12 new trains on one day in Uttar Pradesh, desperately trying to keep her Budget promise.
But Mamata has to really speed up the work to achieve what she announced in the Budget last year. The waiting list of projects is growing.
She had announced that 375 stations were to be developed into Adarsh Stations but little has been achieved on that front.
She had also promised that 50 railway stations were to be developed into multi- functional complexes but till October 2009 Mamata had laid the foundation for just one such complex in Siliguri.
Of the 12 Durantos announced only seven have been introduced. Moreover, air-conditioned double-decker trains are still being built
"Implementation is a big issue with the railway projects that are announced in the Budget," says former member traffic (Railways) Ghosh Dastidar.
But Mamata did not miss all her promises. She did present the white paper on Indian Railways about the profit claims of her predecessor Lalu Prasad.
Tatkal scheme was revamped, janta meals introduced, Yuva trains for unemployed youth launched.
But all has not been well with the railways in the last seven months. Mamata was missing from the Rail Bhawan and running the ministry from Kolkata. There have been 123 train accidents in the last eleven months.
It looks that the Railway Budget could be high on populism and low on reforms.
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