The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana will now be extended to all licensed porters, vendors and hawkers on Railways. This was announced by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, in the Railway Budget for the year 2010-11 presented in the Lok Sabha.
She said that this is being done in fulfillment of our corporate social responsibility as the porters, vendors and hawkers are from the unorganized sector and are socially challenged.
The Indian Railways will run special train Sanskriti Express across the country to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore and to disseminate his legacy to the young generation, Banerjee said.
The Minister said, a special train will be run between India and Bangladesh on this occasion. Tagore is the only poet in the work whose poems have been adopted as National Anthems by two countries – Amar Sonar Bangla for Bangladesh and Jan Gana Mana for India, she said.
