Union Budget 2017-18: INFRASTRUCTURE
1. For transportation
sector as a whole, including rail, roads, shipping, provision of ` 2,41,387
crores has been made in 2017-18. 2. For 2017-18, the total capital and development expenditure of Railways has been pegged at ` 1,31,000 crores. This includes ` 55,000 crores provided by the Government
3. For passenger safety, a Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh will be created with a corpus of ` 1 lakh crores over a period of 5 years
4. Railway lines of 3,500 kms will be commissioned in 2017-18. During 2017-18, at least 25 stations are expected to be awarded for station redevelopment.
5. SMS based Clean My Coach Service has been started
‘Coach Mitra’, a single window interface, to register all coach related complaints and requirements to be launched
6. In the road sector, Budget allocation for highways increased from ` 57,976 crores in BE 2016-17 to ` 64,900 crores in 2017-18
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