Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a slew of railway projects in poll-bound West Bengal on Monday amidst claims by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that they were announced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her tenure as railway minister. Modi inaugurated the extension of metro railway from Noapara to Dakshineswar and flagged off the first service on the stretch. He also inaugurated the third line between Kalaikunda and Jhargram. The much awaited extended stretch of metro railway from Noapara to Dakshineswar has been constructed at a cost of Rs 464 crore, fully funded by the Centre. This extended stretch will provide fast, easy, pollution-free travel bereft of traffic snarls to thousands of commuters in the city and its adjoining areas. Around 50,000 daily commuters coming from Howrah, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas will be benefitted from this extension, a statement from the railway ministry said.
Updated Feb 01, 2021 | 18:48 IST
Budget 2021 Highlights: The preparation of this Budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before, in view of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country, said FM Sitharaman Budget Highlights
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her third Budget today. Union Budget 2021 was much anticipated as it came at a time when the economy is reeling from the negative impact of the coronavirus. The pandemic, which has left millions dead and jobless, is far from over and people were looking forwards to Budget to see what the government announced to boost economic recovery and people s income.
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The Federal Government is to partly fund six rail projects connecting virtually all regions of the country with a counterpart funding of N71.15bn this year.
Also, N15.1bn will be spent on the development of safety and security critical projects, airport certification, runway construction, terminal building, among others in the aviation sector in 2021.
A report on selected projects in the 2021 budget obtained by our correspondent from the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in Abuja showed that in the rail sector, the government had mapped out six projects that it would partly fund this year.
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Vietnam reports four imported COVID-19 cases on December 12
Four new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on December 12, all Vietnamese citizens returning from abroad and being quarantined, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Of the newly-detected patients, one arrived from UAE on flight VN88 which landed at Cam Ranh airport on December 8, and another returned from Russia on flight VN5062 which landed at Da Nang airport on December 6. They are being treated at the General Hospital of Phu Yen province, and Lung Hospital in Da Nang city, respectively.