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Got rid of Railway budget to remove political interference: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 28 (ANI): Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has changed the functioning of the Indian Railways and removed the Railway budget as it was being used as a ‘political tool’.
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No separate budget for Agriculture: Telangana govt.
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Mar. 06 (ANI): Telangana government on Monday decided not to introduce a separate budget for Agriculture for the financial year 2018-19, as announced earlier.
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Mamta govt not cooperating with Centre: Goyal
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said West Bengal's government is not cooperating with the Centre.
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MoS Gohain assures fast development of Railways
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) Railways Rajen Gohain on Thursday said that the Railways Budget introduced as part of the Budget proposals for 2018-19 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley includes everything and assured fast development of the sector.
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Fadnavis 'happy' over Jaitley's Railway Budget
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government after Rs 40,000 crore was allocated in the Union Budget towards enhancing transportation in Mumbai.
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Budget 2017 will make India 'self-sufficient': BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kolkata, Feb. 01 (ANI): Confident that the Union and the Railway Budget 2017 will make the nation self-sufficient, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that government's decision to present both the Union and the Railway Budget 2017 together is astute.
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Railway Budget's inclusion shows breakthrough in tradition of Budget
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], Feb. 1 (ANI): With 2017 set to witness the Railway Budget being subsumed in the General Budget for the first time ever, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has stated that this Budget is a breakthrough in the traditional presentation.
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Earlier Rail budgets were focused on pleasing parliamentarians: PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 18(ANI) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that previous Rail budgets were politicized as they were primarily focused to please the Members of Parliament(MP), adding that the decision of Railway Budget merger with General Budget has never been for the
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Winter Session to witness debates on demonetisation, OROP, Railway and Gen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 14 (ANI): The upcoming Winter Session of the Parliament would see discussions on the demonetisation issue, Jammu and Kashmir unrest the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme and the merger of General and Railway budget, said Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress
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Merger of railway and general budget will lead to red tapism: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Sept .22 (ANI): A day after Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the merger of General and railway budgets, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said the merger will create more bureaucratic hurdles for the rail mini
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Budget amalgamation will not complete projects faster: Paswan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 21 (ANI): Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said the Union Cabinet's nod to merge the railway budget with the general budget from next year will not help in completing the pending projects faster, adding the only major change
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Railways no more a priority for Centre, says Nitish Kumar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Sept. 21 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday slammed the Centre's move of merging the Railway Budget with the Union budget and said the railways are no more a priority for the ruling dispensation, adding that this will put an end to the autonomy
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