Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 2 (ANI): General Manager of Eastern Railways Arun Arora hailed the announcements made for railways in Union Budget 2022-23 calling it a game-changing and goal-oriented budget. “2,000 kilometers of the rail network will be brought under Kavach, the world-class technology for railway safety. 400 new Vande Bharat express trains will be manufactured. It is a game-changing and growth-oriented budget,” Arora said.
Earlier while lauding the budget, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that Union Budget has a provision of Rs 1.37 lakh crore of the capital investment support for the Railways and it will help complete the stalled Railways projects.
He also lauded the announcement about 2,000 km of the network to be brought under Kavach, the indigenous world-class technology for safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23 as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
“Indigenously-developed anti-collision technology Kavach is SIL4 certified which means there is the probability of a single error in 10,000 years. The Union Budget has a provision of Rs 1.37 lakh crores of the capital investment support for the Railways. It will help complete the stalled Railways projects,” Vaishnaw said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament on Tuesday.
Union Min Narendra Singh Tomar hails increase in allocation for agriculture in budget
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said that the amount allocated for agriculture has been increased from last year in this year’s Union Budget while adding that every aspect has been taken care of in this budget.
“Last time the budget for agriculture was Rs 1,23,000 crore. This time the budget for agriculture is Rs 1,32,000 crore. Everything has been taken care of in the budget. Whatever facilities the common people need, provision has been made in the budget,” said Tomar.
Slamming opposition parties for criticizing the budget, Tomar said, ” I can only laugh at those who call this budget useless.” “They are afraid that this budget will give rise to new India. They have been defeated twice in 2014 and 2019. They are worried that if this budget gets implemented then they will stand nowhere in 2024 also,” he added. (ANI)
