The budget was presented by the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the Parliament of India on 26 February 2015.

Passengers will be allowed to book tickets up to 120 days in advance, an increase from current 2 months.

A centrally managed "Railway Display Network" will be introduced at 2,000 stations to provide train information.

The number of stations from which passengers can pay a combined train and road ticket will be increased.

The numbers of trains in which passengers can order meals and disposable bedrolls at the time of booking tickets to be increased.

The rate for urea was hiked by 10%, coal by 6.3%, iron ore and steel by 0.8%, cement by 2.7%, and grains and pulses by 10%.

Smriti Irani, Human Resource Minister, praised the budget for considering women's safety.

[16][17] Rajeev Gowda, spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC) said the budget was leaning towards elites.

[18] Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the budget had many lofty ideas but no action plan.

[21] Jyotinder Kaur, principle economist at HDFC bank, said that he was unsure of how the funds for the proposals will be gathered as the budget did not mention it.