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    The Union Budget for 2017 allocates significant funds to improve India's rail infrastructure over the next few years, including eliminating over 4000 unmanned railway crossings, increasing funding for capital projects, introducing new coach cleaning and problem reporting services, ensuring all trains have bio-toilets by 2019, and allocating funds for expansion and improvements to Mumbai and Bengaluru rail networks. A new chairman was also appointed to lead the Railway Board.

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    The Union Budget for 2017 allocates significant funds to improve India's rail infrastructure over the next few years, including eliminating over 4000 unmanned railway crossings, increasing funding for capital projects, introducing new coach cleaning and problem reporting services, ensuring all trains have bio-toilets by 2019, and allocating funds for expansion and improvements to Mumbai and Bengaluru rail networks. A new chairman was also appointed to lead the Railway Board.

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    RAILWAY RELATED FACTS – UNION BUDGET - 2017

    1. The Government has decided to eliminate 4267 unmanned Railway


    Crossing in Broad Gauge within 2 years.

    2. The Government has allocated Rs.1.48 Lakh Crore for Railway Capex
    which is higher than the previous allocation.

    3. An SMS based service "Clean My Coach" would be started.

    4. “Coach Mitra” would be started to register all the problems related to


    coach.

    5. All the trains would have Bio-Toilet by 2019.

    6. Rs 11,000 Crore are allocated for Mumbai rail network and Rs 17,000
    Crore for the Bengaluru metro. On the other hand, 150 km of additional
    suburban railway networks would be set up at the cost of Rs 17,000 Crore in
    Bengaluru.

    7. Setu Bharatam programme for building bridges on National Highways


    with an aim to make all national highways free of railway crossings by 2019,
    in New Delhi

    8.The Union Government has appointed Ashwani Lohani as the new


    Chairman of the Railway Board (Ministry of Railways).

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