TS gets big hike in railway budget Rs 600 crore for MMTS
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: From the highest-ever capital outlay of Rs 2.4 lakh crore that the Union Budget has provided to railways, Telangana received a significantly higher share of Rs 4,418 crore, which is 45 per cent more than the Rs 3,048 crore given last fiscal. Of that, Rs 600 crore has been earmarked for the Phase II of Multi-Modal Transport System in Hyderabad, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Friday during a virtual conference with officials of South Central Railways. An amount of Rs 185 crore has been allotted for the 151-km Manoharabad-Kothapalli new line project, which was sanctioned in 2006-07 at a cost of Rs 1,160 crore. An amount of Rs 10 crore has been allotted for the Manuguru-Ramagundam new line project while Rs 345 crore has been allotted for Munirabad-Mahbubnagar new line project.