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Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw connected Monday described the Union Budget 2026-27 arsenic a ‘record budget’ for Karnataka, announcing a railway allocation of ₹7,748 crore and ongoing projects worthy ₹52,950 crore successful the State.
Addressing a virtual property league from New Delhi connected Monday, a time aft the presumption of the Union Budget, the Minister outlined State-wise allocations and cardinal railway projects, highlighting 2 projected high-speed obstruction corridors linking Bengaluru with Hyderabad and Chennai arsenic large crippled changers.
Mr. Vaishnaw said that the high-speed obstruction projects announced successful the Budget would importantly alteration inter-city question successful South India. He explained that the Bengaluru-Chennai-Hyderabad high-speed obstruction corridor would beryllium developed arsenic a “diamond” project, positioning Bengaluru arsenic a cardinal hub connecting the 2 different large confederate metros.
Calling the slug bid proposals 1 of the astir important gains for Karnataka successful this Budget, the Minister said that the Bengaluru-Chennai corridor would trim question clip to conscionable astir 1 hr and 13 minutes.
“Bengaluru and Chennai will, successful a sense, go 2 merged cities. One tin commencement astatine immoderate clip of the day, decorativeness enactment successful Chennai and instrumentality to Bengaluru the aforesaid day. Similarly, the projected Bengaluru-Hyderabad high-speed obstruction enactment would chopped question clip to astir 2 hours,” helium added.
According to Mr. Vaishnaw, the faster connectivity is expected to supply a large boost to manufacturing, design, and IT services, peculiarly benefiting Bengaluru’s relation arsenic a exertion and innovation hub.
The announcements had followed Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget code connected Sunday, successful which she projected 7 high-speed obstruction corridors crossed the country, describing them arsenic “growth connectors”. Among these, the Hyderabad-Bengaluru and Chennai-Bengaluru corridors are expected to straight nexus Bengaluru with the capitals of Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
The different projected high-speed obstruction routes see Mumbai-Pune, Pune-Hyderabad, Hyderabad-Chennai, Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri. “In bid to beforehand environmentally sustainable rider systems, we volition make 7 High-Speed Rail corridors betwixt cities arsenic ‘growth connectors’,” Ms. Sitharaman said during her Budget speech.
