Mamata set to present 'pro-people' rail budget

Agencies Posted: Jul 01, 2009 at 1744 hrs
New Delhi The rail Budget, scheduled to be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 3, would be a ‘pro-people budget’, Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

"It will be a pro-people budget, a simple budget, people's budget," Banerjee told reporters after the all party meeting on the eve of the Budget session of Parliament.

She said the expectation was high from the Railway Budget and added that she barely got 15 days to work on it as the concerned officials were busy preparing it.

The minister added that the budget was being prepared in accordance with the situation of Railways at present in the country.