Railway Budget 2025: Uttarakhand gets a budget of Rs 4641 crore, the look of 11 stations will change

This time the central government has given special preference to Uttarakhand in the budget. This time the central government has added an extra budget of about ₹ 2 lakh 52,000 crores for the railway budget in the budget. Rs 2.52 lakh crore has been allocated by the central government for the railway budget. If we talk about Uttarakhand, this time Uttarakhand has also been allocated a good budget in the railway budget. In the coming days, other works being done by the Railway Department in Uttarakhand will also start.

Uttarakhand got this much budget for 2025-2026

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had a virtual conversation with some journalists from Dehradun from Delhi. In this conversation, the Railway Minister told that this time the central government has allocated Rs 2 lakh 52 thousand crores in the railway budget. Rs 4641 crore has been allocated for Uttarakhand alone. This money is much more than states like Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

11 railway stations of Uttarakhand will be transformed

Ashwini Vaishnav said that in the coming days, many such works are being done by the Railways in Uttarakhand which will be visible on the ground. He told that about 11 railway stations in the state are being beautified under Amrit Station. These include Dehradun’s Harrawala railway station and many stations in Kumaon.

What else did Uttarakhand get

This budget has been released for new works, while the budget for the works going on in Rishikesh, Karnaprayag and other places is already sanctioned. The Railway Minister said that soon the Vande Bharat Sleeper Train is going to hit the tracks in many parts of India. This train will also break China’s record. This train will run at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour.

Let’s know the important things related to the budget:

• Between 2009-14, a total budget of ₹ 187 crore was allocated to the state. This time it has got 25 times more.
• 11 railway stations of Uttarakhand are being developed as Amrit Stations
• 49 percent work of 125 km Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail project has been completed. The cost of the project is ₹ 24,659 crores.
• 96 percent work of Deoband-Roorkee rail line has been completed. This project is being built at a cost of ₹ 1,053 crores and is 5 km long
• 63 km Kichha-Khatima rail line will be built. It is being prepared at a cost of ₹ 228 crores.

Giving information about the Central Government’s highly ambitious Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail project for Chardham, Railway Minister Vaishnav said that 49 percent work of this 125 km project has been completed. Whose total cost is ₹ 24 thousand 659 crores. He said that this project is a very ambitious project of the government. In the press conference, he informed that 96 percent of the work of Deoband-Roorkee rail line in the state has been completed. Its total cost is ₹ 1,053 crores and this rail line is 27.5 km long. It was also informed that the 63 km long Kichha-Khatima rail line project will be built at a cost of ₹ 228 crores.

These rail projects going on in Uttarakhand

69 km of new rail tracks have been laid in Uttarakhand from 2014 to 2025. Also, 303 km of rail lines have been electrified in the same period. Between 2009-14, this figure was 0. Today every railway line in the state is electrified. At present, work is going on in the state on 03 rail projects (railway tracks) of 216 km, the cost of which is ₹ 25,941 crores. Also, 11 stations including Dehradun, Haridwar Junction, Harrawala, Kashipur Junction, Kathgodam, Kichha, Kotdwar, Lalkuan Junction, Ramnagar, Roorkee and Tanakpur are being developed as Amrit stations at a cost of Rs 147 crore.

Armour Security in Railways

While giving information about the armor system in view of security in the railways in a virtual press conference, it was told that the armor system has been recommended for 49 route kilometers in the state. Apart from this, 100 rail flyovers and under bridges have been constructed in the state since 2014. Six lifts, 14 escalators have been constructed at the stations for the passengers. WiFi facility is available for passengers at 31 stations. Apart from this, two Vande Bharat trains are successfully providing services in the state.

This is what the minister said on security

On the question related to the security of railways, he told that the railway department is engaged in securing 10,000 coaches and about 15,000 km of railway track under Kavach. Thousands of employees are also being trained in this. The Railway Minister told that along with this, the Railway Ministry is also going to run Namo Bharat Train. In the initial phase, we are going to run 50 trains on different routes.

These stations of Uttarakhand can be included in the new terminal

Along with this, new terminals are being built in the cities whose population has increased or is more and these are big cities. Then if Dehradun or Haridwar railway station comes in it or Kathgodam of Haldwani, those railway stations can also be included. For this, the number of people coming and going there and the number of people living there will be seen first. Recently its work has been started in Chandigarh and work is going on in the direction of making Chandigarh a world class railway station.

During the discussion of the budget session in Delhi, Rajya Sabha MP from Uttarakhand Mahendra Bhatt raised the issue of salary hike of Asha workers. As soon as the speaker asked Mahendra Bhatt to speak, he talked about it in detail and also appealed to the government to draw its attention to this issue.