Modi, Yogi Adityanath top choices for campaigning among Uttarakhand BJP nominees
Party leaders want at least three rallies each of Adityanath and Modi in the next 25 days of the campaign as the state will undergo polling on April 19.
The government on Tuesday said it has spent over Rs 50,000 crore out of a total outlay of Rs 1.31 lakh crore on rail safety in this fiscal.
The government has planned a capital expenditure outlay of Rs 131,000 crore for railway safety in 2017-18, of which it spent Rs 50,762 crore till August 31, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa told reporters after a Union Cabinet meeting.
The government in its Budget this year announced a special safety fund of Rs 1.31 lakh crore for Indian Railways.
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Lavasa said the pace of laying new railway tracks had been hastened from 380 km in 2014-15 to 953 km in 2016-17.
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