"Bengal Deprived Of Railway Funds For Years": Trinamool's Derek O'Brien

Sunday, 7 February 2021Newsdesk

The Trinamool Congress today hit out at the BJP and its supporters for tom-tomming the budgetary allocation this year for railway projects in West Bengal, coming especially in the run up the state assembly polls. The party said these proclamations do not consider the number of projects shelved over the years and all the funding that was choked by the Centre.

New Delhi, 07 February 2021

As per news report of NDTV, finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated West Bengal Rs. 6,636 crore in this year's annual budget which she read out in Parliament on February 1. This, according to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, was the highest ever funds earmarked for the state in the history of Indian Railways. "It is 2.5 times the average amount allocated between Budget 2009-2014 and 26 per cent more than last year," he told reporters on Thursday and also tweeted about it a day earlier.

Source -NDTV