Speaker, when I look at the list of illustrious leaders of this country who had donned the mantle of Indian Railways right from Sh. Asaf Ali to Sh. Lal Bahadur Shastri, to Sh. Jagjivan Ram ji, I find myself nowhere near their stature. But I have certainly tried to take lessions from the pages of history and from their contribution to this great institution. I am grateful to Mamata Banerjee for giving vision to railways in her Vision 2020 document, which has guided me immensely in framing the roadmap for varrying forward the task. I am grateful to each member of 14 lakh strong Rail Parivar which has not only given confidence to me but has also shown the direction. It is through their dedication, hardwork, loyalty and sacrifice that the railways have scaled great heights. No other organization can perhaps draw a parallel with Indian Railways. Right from the Board Members to the gangman, it is only this unity which has overcome. Madam, when I took oath on 12th July 2011 as Minister of Railways, teh railways had just been overtaken by an opportune rail accidents at Fathepur Malwa near kanpur on 10th July 2011. I had rushed to the accident side instead of going on Rail mantralaya. The intensity of pain and misery experienced by the passengers and their relatives continues to haunt me and I have spent sleepless nights. At that very mement, i took a view to eliminate recurrence of such painful happenings and decided that my entire emphasis. Minister really believe that a widow can survive on Rs. 200 per month? It is something like a cruel joke on widowhood of the women of India. I would, therefore, request the hon. Minister to at least raise it be ten times if not substantially. It can at least be something reasonable, it can be a respectable figure. So, Rs. 2,000 would really be good. The Constitution of India provides for taking care of some of the backward areas of India in terms of giving a Development Board for them. In Maharashtra, we created one such Board for the rest of Maharashtra. I would request the hon. Minister to consider this demand. This is a demand which has been pending before the Government for a long time. This demand was a well made by me for a long time. Growing up, Nisha Warsi had limited ambitions. She always had a deep interest in sport, but she wanted to play one which would not burn a hole in her parents pockets. Her family couldn't afford much and a job through sport was always welcome. She chose hockey. Cut to 2021, and Nisha is headed for the Tokyo Olympics. She harbours the dream of standing on the podium, arms interlinked with her India hockey teammates and making the country and her parents proud. The defender, who turned 26last week, is set to make her Games debut. The soft spoken Nisha, a product of Commonwealth Games gold medallist Pritam Rani Siwach's academy in Soniat, Haryana, has fought many a personal battle besides the usual demon of self-doubt that plagues players at the highest levels to get to where she is. Her father, Sohrab Ahamad, was a tailor before a stoke in 2015 left him paralysed and forced him to quit. Her mother, Mahroon, worked in a foam manufacturing factory for a few years before Nisha landed a job with the Railways.
