The government can make big announcements in the railway budget! More than 100 new Vande Bharat may start

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Railway budget 2023 expectations: Like every year in the country, this time also the general budget will be presented on 1 February. This time the government’s focus may be more on the railways. According to the information received from the sources, in this budget, the government can announce to make more than 100 new Vande Bharat. In this budget, the finance minister will have a big focus on railways. May be this time the focus should be on Automatic Train Protection System Kavach. Let’s know what can be big changes.

Let us tell you, on February 25, 2016, during Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, the Rail Budget was presented separately as per the old tradition. After this, in the year 2017, Arun Jaitley presented the first joint budget. In this budget, Jaitley had allocated Rs 1.3 lakh crore for the Indian Railways. This was the biggest allocation in the history of Indian Railways. With this, the 92-year-old tradition of presenting a separate railway budget came to an end. In fact, in the year 2015, a committee of NITI Aayog had recommended to stop presenting the railway budget separately. It was later separated by the Modi government.

automatic train protection system

In this budget, the finance minister will have a big focus on railways. May be this time the focus should be on Automatic Train Protection System Kavach. Kavach is actually an automatic train protection system developed in the country. Railways have described it as Made in India, India’s armor (Bharat ka Kavach). Its purpose is to stop the collision of trains, so that accidents do not happen and people do not lose their lives.

New Vande Bharat with sleeper facility

On the other hand, emphasis can be laid on making new Vande Bharat with sleeper facility. Now sleeper berth will also be installed in this train. With this, passengers will get the facility of sleeping while traveling in long distance. This train will work like Rajdhani Express, in which passengers will also get the facility of Sleeper AC Coach.

The focus will be on railway infrastructure

In this budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman can announce a good increase in the allocation of Railways. This time there is a possibility of allocation of up to 25-30% in the railway budget. According to sources, in the budget of the financial year 2023-24, the focus of the Finance Minister will be on the infrastructure of the Railways. There will also be an emphasis on increasing expenditure on rolling stock, electrification in the budget. Allocation may also increase for track doubling, tripling.

Not only this, this time the manufacturing of more than 100 new Vande Bharat trains can be announced in the budget. A new Vande Bharat with sleeper can also be announced. Apart from this, the government can also focus on automatic train protection system armor in this budget. Along with this, the route can be expanded for train protection.