PM Modi says Cupboard nod for Railway tasks will enhance connectivity infrastructure

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Saturday (April 5, 2025) that his authorities’s nod to 4 multi-tracking railway tasks will enhance connectivity infrastructure, increase comfort, scale back logistics prices and strengthen provide chains.

He was reacting to the Union Cupboard’s approval for 4 tasks of the Ministry of Railways involving a complete value of about ₹18,658 crore, a authorities press observe mentioned.

The 4 tasks masking 15 districts in three states of Maharashtra, Odisha and Chhattisgarh will improve the prevailing community of Indian Railways by about 1,247 km.

PM Modi mentioned the Cupboard’s nod to Vibrant Villages Programme-II is an “distinctive information” for making certain a greater high quality of life in border villages.

He mentioned, “With this approval, we’re additionally increasing the scope of the villages coated in comparison with Vibrant Villages Programme-I.” The target of the programme is to create higher residing circumstances and ample livelihood alternatives to make sure affluent and protected borders, management trans-border crimes and assimilate the border inhabitants with the nation and inculcate them ‘as eyes and ears of the border guarding forces’, essential for inner safety.

With a complete outlay of ₹6,839 crore, the programme will likely be applied in choose strategic villages in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal until 2028-29, an announcement mentioned.