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Railway Budget 2025
February 4 , 2025
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- The Budget allocation for Indian Railways for FY 2025-26 stands at ₹2.65 lakh crore, the same as last year’s allocation.
- The Railway Capex stands at ₹2.52 lakh crore from the total ₹2.65 lakh crore allocation that include(s) Public Private Partnership investments.
- The allocation to develop customer amenities in Indian Railways has continued to decline to ₹12,118.39 crore in the FY 2025-26.
- Also, the allocation for investment in the Public Sector Units (PSU) and Joint Ventures (JV) has gone down from the revised estimate of ₹27,570.77 crore in FY 2024-25 to ₹22,444.33 crore in FY 2025-26.
- By March 2025, the Indian Railways will achieve an important milestone of carrying 1.6 billion-tonne cargo carrying capacity.
- With this, it become the second largest cargo carrying railway in the world, next only to China, which has the capacity of 3.7 billion tonnes.
- The allocation for ‘Bullet’ train project has been reduced to ₹19,000 crore in the Budget for FY 2025-26.
- The Railways is set to achieve 100% electrification of its network in FY 2025-26.
- For the first time, the Railways is projected to achieve ₹3 lakh crore in passenger revenue in FY 2025-26.
- The Railway Budget was first separated from the General Budget in 1924.
- The practice came to an end after 92 years when then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Merged Union Budget for the year 2017-18.
- The decision to merge these two budgets was based on the recommendations of a committee headed by Bibek Debroy.
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