Suresh Prabhu presented the 2015-16 Indian Railway budget with a focus on safety, infrastructure development, passenger comfort, and making the railways self-sustaining. Key aspects of the budget included a proposed Rs. 8.56 lakh crore investment over 5 years, increasing daily passenger capacity to 30 million, and freight capacity to 1.5 billion tons by 2020. There were no increases to passenger fares. The budget aimed to strengthen the railways technologically, financially, and commercially through various new initiatives while focusing on critical areas like increasing connectivity in the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir regions.