Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi’s brief innings might end soon but the politics of his maiden budget makes an interesting analysis, as apart from announcing projects for West Bengal, he has favoured both Congress and BJP-ruled states. Bengal does not top the list in new trains — it’s placed second with 15 new express trains compared to 17 each in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Kolkata — with 44 new suburban trains and 50 new metro links — occupies the numero uno slot in city connectivity. Trivedi has, however, ensured that when it comes to projects, the state that sent him to Parliament gets the top billing. From a disaster management centre to a new factory for propulsion system and a coaching centre, Bengal has got its share of the goodies. The other big gainer is Maharashtra, especially Mumbai. There are several initiatives for Mumbai that include work on running 12-rake cars on Harbour line, financial modelling of elevated rail corridor from Churchgate to Virar and a pre-feasibility study for a similar corridor between CST and Kalyan. In his speech, Trivedi said there would be a dedicated design centre at National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad, a special purpose vehicle with Andhra Pradesh government for a multi-modal transport system and a feasibility study for faster corridors on Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal-Panvel and Virar-Panvel sections. Six high-speed corridors, including a study on Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur, will be taken up while cooperation with states would include a memorandum with Chhattisgarh to develop three rail corridors, four projects on cost sharing with Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal and 12 similar initiatives with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. While the railway minister’s speech did not forget to promise projects for Bengal like a wagon unit at Kulti and a ‘fiat’ bogie frame unit at Budge Budge, Trivedi’s distribution of projects is much more balanced. His total exclusion of plans for hospitals and colleges that were part of his leader Mamata Banerjee’s previous Budget is a statement in itself.
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for what against our mister price hike ,1st do something for people then later will planned for price restructure
I don't understand this minister are what are thinking .
Our minister each and every step try to increase leaving cost. But our private sector HR people not ready appraisal accordingly .
Private company always try to cost cutting & our Govt authorize person ie our stupid political person try to increase leaving cost.
Ultimately we are suffering , specific lower & middle class standard
Hallo Govt do anything whatever you like
But before planning anything 1st planned In India every Private sector employee should raise salary according,.
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