Bhubaneswar: The Centre has allocated Rs 10,536 crore for Odisha’s railway infrastructure development for the 2024-25 fiscal, which is Rs 524 crore more than the amount sanctioned in last year’s Budget, official sources said. Noting that the annual average outlay for Odisha in the railway sector for the last three years has been around Rs 10,000 crore, an official note said the average outlay for the state between 2009 and 2014 was about Rs 838 crore. The size of allocations for the state has roughly increased 12 times.
