<p>More private trains, solar plants near railway tracks, refrigerated coaches for transport perishable goods, are the highlights of the railway ministry proposal in the Union Budget.</p>.<p>The national transporter, which already runs two privately-operated trains through IRCTC, is working on to run 150 passengers trains in the coming days.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/union-budget-2020?_ga=2.84232025.1360367931.1580521242-1474932321.1580521241"><strong>Follow DH's Union Budget 2020 coverage here</strong></a></p>.<p>The railways held a stakeholders meeting on this and several top global players have keen to participate in operating trains, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav told reporters here.</p>.<p>Besides, the railways also plans to aggressively push the station development project through PPP.</p>.<p>With an aim to build a seamless national cold supply chain for “perishables”, Sitharaman also proposed setting up a “Krishi Rail” through PPP arrangements. There will be refrigerated coaches in express and freight trains as well, she said.</p>.<p>The budget also proposed setting up of a large solar power capacity alongside the rail tracks on land owned by the railways.</p>.<p>The railways got a budgetary allocation of Rs 70,000 crore and an outlay for capital expenditure amounting to Rs 1.61 lakh crore, a paltry 3% more than the previous year.</p>.<p>In 2019-2020, the capital expenditure (revised estimate) was Rs 1.56 lakh crore, which was 17.2 % more than the capex of 2018-2019.</p>.<p>The total receipts of the railways, comprising earnings from passenger goods, sundry other heads and railway recruitment boards are targeted to increase by 9.5 % in the Budget Estimates (BE) of 2020-21, over the Revised Estimates (RE) of 2019-20.</p>
<p>More private trains, solar plants near railway tracks, refrigerated coaches for transport perishable goods, are the highlights of the railway ministry proposal in the Union Budget.</p>.<p>The national transporter, which already runs two privately-operated trains through IRCTC, is working on to run 150 passengers trains in the coming days.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/union-budget-2020?_ga=2.84232025.1360367931.1580521242-1474932321.1580521241"><strong>Follow DH's Union Budget 2020 coverage here</strong></a></p>.<p>The railways held a stakeholders meeting on this and several top global players have keen to participate in operating trains, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav told reporters here.</p>.<p>Besides, the railways also plans to aggressively push the station development project through PPP.</p>.<p>With an aim to build a seamless national cold supply chain for “perishables”, Sitharaman also proposed setting up a “Krishi Rail” through PPP arrangements. There will be refrigerated coaches in express and freight trains as well, she said.</p>.<p>The budget also proposed setting up of a large solar power capacity alongside the rail tracks on land owned by the railways.</p>.<p>The railways got a budgetary allocation of Rs 70,000 crore and an outlay for capital expenditure amounting to Rs 1.61 lakh crore, a paltry 3% more than the previous year.</p>.<p>In 2019-2020, the capital expenditure (revised estimate) was Rs 1.56 lakh crore, which was 17.2 % more than the capex of 2018-2019.</p>.<p>The total receipts of the railways, comprising earnings from passenger goods, sundry other heads and railway recruitment boards are targeted to increase by 9.5 % in the Budget Estimates (BE) of 2020-21, over the Revised Estimates (RE) of 2019-20.</p>
