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COVER STORY
RAILWAYS' TRANSFORMATION

Indian Railways
transports 2.3
crore passengers
from one part of R2,65,200
the country to
another at low CRORE
cost every day.
is the total capital
expenditure for
2024-25. This is
the highest budget
allocation so far.

he third decade of this century is the
decade of the transformation for Indian
Railways. In the past 10 years, the entire rail
scenario seems to have changed, and by In the past few years, the
Tthe end of this third decade, it will establish
new dimensions. Indian trains will not lag behind railways have raised hopes of
anyone in the world. Safety, convenience, cleanliness, solving decades-old problems
sensitivity, and capability. Indian Railways will achieve through hard work. But we still
a new position in the whole world; it is moving towards have a long way to go. We will
achieving this goal. The Namo Bharat train has been not stop until Indian Railways
started. Earlier, the country got a modern train like Vande becomes a guarantee of
Bharat. Under the Amrit Bharat Station Abhiyan, the comfortable travel for everyone,
work of modernizing the railway stations of the country
is also going on at a fast pace. Indian Railways is close poor and middle class. I am
to achieving the target of 100 per cent electrification. confident that this development
The triveni of Namo Bharat, Amrit Bharat, and Vande of infrastructure taking place in
Bharat will become a symbol of modernization of Indian the country will play a big role in
Railways by the end of this decade. eliminating poverty.
Today, work is also going on at very fast pace on the
multimodal transport system in the country. Different - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

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