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Railway allocation in AP, Telangana witnesses huge rise
The outlay for railways in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh saw a huge jump in the Union Budget 2017-18 presented on Wednesday.
Hyderabad: The outlay for railways in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh saw a huge jump in the Union Budget 2017-18 presented on Wednesday.
The outlay for Telangana is Rs 1,729 crore against the average of Rs 601 crore for last two years. Similarly for neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the allocation is Rs 3,406 crore against the last two years' average of Rs 2,195 crore, said South Central Railway (SCR) General Manager Vinod Kumar Yadav.
Telangana is completely served by SCR while Andhra Pradesh is mainly served by the zone.
It was announced in the budget that unmanned level crossings on broad gauge lines will be eliminated by 2020.
Yadav said out of 355 unmanned level crossings on SCR, 170 will be eliminated during the current financial year and the remaining in the coming years.
He said SCR has already entered into joint venture with the Andhra governmentand is in the process of finalising similar agreement with Telangana.
He said 37 stations on SCR were planned to be taken up for re-development. The work on Secunderabad and Vijayawada stations will be taken up in 2017-18.
