The Modi government has allocated an unprecedented ₹20,000 crore for various railway works across Telangana and had also cleared another ₹30,000 crore worth of railway projects in the last nine years, said Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region and State BJP president G. Kishan Reddy on Sunday.
The funds have been sanctioned for new lines, doubling, third lines, electrification, railway road overbridges and several others. The funds allocation this year alone from the Railway Budget was ₹4,418 crore for works in Telangana alone and this was 17 times more when compared to 2014-15, he said.
He was participating in the nationwide foundation stone laying ceremony of the Amriti Bharat Stations Scheme (ABSS) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually of revamping 508 stations at a total cost of about ₹24,000 crore, of which 21 stations in Telangana (₹894 crore cost estimate) have been chosen in the first phase, at the Nampally railway station.
