Railway Budget 2021-22 - Highlights

 Highlights of Railways Budget 2021-22

 

• Single Demand Number - 84 ( 83 for 2020-21)

 

• Capex - 2,15,058 Crores

 

• Budgetary Support from Ministry of Finance -110055 Crores

 

• 100 % Electrification  - by December, 2023

 

• BG Route KMs - 72 % Electrification by December, 2021

 

• DFC - Dedicated Freight Corridors - Commissioned by June, 2022

 

• The Sonnagar-Gomoh Section (263.7 km) of Eastern DFC  -taken up in PPP mode in 2021-22

 

• Proposed DFCs

 

1. East Coast corridor from Kharagpur to Vijayawada

2. East-West Corridor from Bhusaval to Kharagpur to Dankuni

3. North-South corridor from Itarsi to Vijayawada

 

• Vista Dome LHB coaches on Tourist routes

 

•  ATPS - Automatic Train Protection System (indigenously developed one) - introduced  in Important routes to eliminate Train Collision. 

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