Finance Minister gave record money to Railways in the budget, know where it will be used the most

However, railway passengers say that they were thinking that in the budget there might be some announcement for concessions to the elderly like before, abolition of waiting list and passenger facilities. This did not happen, but still it is a good thing that the Railways will spend a lot for the safety of rail passengers in the budget. Giving information about the main points of the budget, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that if we talk about the 60 years before 2014, only 20 thousand kilometers of railway line was electrified. Whereas in these 10 years during the reign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 40 thousand kilometers of railway line has been electrified.

A large part of the budget will be spent on railway security

Regarding the record allocation for the financial year 2024-25, the Railway Minister said that in 2104 it used to be Rs 35 thousand crore. Which has increased to two lakh 62 thousand crores today. Railways will spend a large part of the budget on security. In which installing armor will be a priority, along with laying new tracks in place of old tracks, improving the signaling system, laying new tracks, increasing double lines as per the need, building flyovers and underpasses, bringing new technology and money will be spent on all other things related to security.

Emphasis is being given on making more compartments

Talking about the track, in 2014, about four kilometers of railway line was laid every day. Which has increased to more than 14 kilometers every day. Passengers should get more and more trains. For this, emphasis is being laid on making more and more trains. In the last financial year, more than 700 crore people have traveled by train across the country. Pressure is increasing on the railways. For this, work is being done to make 2,500 additional general coaches in the current financial year. Which will be increased to 10 thousand general coaches in the coming time.

He said that continuous work is being done towards making Vande Bharat, Vande Metro, Amrit Bharat and other new types of coaches. Giving information about Kavach, Railway Minister Vaishnav said that this was never thought of during the reign of Congress. Whereas this technology had already come to the world in 1980-1990. But work on Kavach was done after the government was formed under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On the question of less jobs in railways, he claimed that 4.11 lakh unemployed people were given jobs during the UPA regime. Whereas about five lakh youth were given jobs during the 10-year reign of Prime Minister Modi.