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Budget 2024: Rs 15,554 cr for Maharashtra rail
Updated On: 02 February, 2024 07:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
The amount is 13 times more than the average allocation
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The new platform being built at Kurla. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
The railway budget has given a record allocation of Rs 15,554 crore to Maharashtra, which is 13 times more than the average allocation of Rs 1,171 crore per year given to Maharashtra from 2009 to 2014. While a total gross outlay of Rs 18,093 crore has been made for Western Railway (WR), with an increase of 12 per cent as compared to 2023-24, the total plan outlay for Central Railway (CR) is Rs 1,0611.82 crore—higher than the plan outlay (net) of Rs 10,600 crore last fiscal.
For CR, an amount of Rs 1,941 crore has been allotted to new rail lines, including Ahmednagar-Beed-Parli Vaijnath (250 km), Baramati - Lonand (54 km), Wardha-Nanded (via Yevatmal-Pusood) (270 km), Solapur-Osmanabad - New line via Tuljapur (84.44 km), Dhule-Nardana (50 km) and one between Kalyan-Murbad via Ulhasnagar (28 km). For WR an amount of Rs 1,330 crore has been allotted for new lines, which is 31 per cent more than the previous year.
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