Mumbai: In what can be called a decline in budgetary allocation for the suburban railway infrastructure, the Union Budget has earmarked ₹575 crore in 2022-2023 for suburban railway projects under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). This marks a decline of ₹75 crore as compared to 2021-2022 when ₹650 crore was allocated for MUTP projects.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project the high-speed railway corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad has received ₹19,102 crore as per the pink book for the Northern Railway. The Extra Budgetary Resources (EBR) according to pink book documents of Western Railway is Rs.5,000 crore for the project. The EBR allocation is down by ₹2,897 crore in comparison to 2021-2022, which had seen an allocation of ₹7,897 crore for the project.
In 2020-2021, ₹5,000 crore was allocated for the project and in 2019-2020, ₹1,000 crore was earmarked for the high-speed rail corridor project.
