Union Budget 2021-22: Rs 25,000cr for Bengal economic corridor
An economic corridor linking Calcutta to Siliguri with an investment of Rs 25,000 crore was among several projects announced for the poll-bound Bengal by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the budget on Monday.
The Rs 25,000 crore investment will be used to upgrade the existing 675km road between the two major urban centre in the state.
This was one of the four economic road corridors announced in the budget. Sitharaman’s own state Tamil Nadu, which is also heading for Assembly polls along with Bengal, bagged the largest pie of Rs 1.03 lakh crore under the allocation for the road corridors.
