Arun Jaitley became first Finance Minister to present a combined Union budget in 2017.The government will unveil Interim Budget 2019 on February 1.
In September 2016, government scrapped 92-year-old practice of presenting rail budgets and general budgets separately.
And in 2017, Arun Jaitley became first finance minister to present a combined Union Budget with Rail Budget as part of it.
This year's Budget - last before general election due by May - will also include announcements for Railways.
(What Interim Budget is, how it differs from full-year budget)Budget 20181.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a capital expenditure of Rs.
1.48 lakh crore for Indian Railways in his Budget 2018 speech.2.
He proposed a target of doubling 18,000 km of lines.3.
New world-class train sets and dedicated freight corridors was also announced as priority task.4.
36,000 km of rail track renewal were targeted while 4,267 unmanned railway crossings on broad gauge routes were targeted to be eliminated in next two years.5.
600 stations were earmarked for modernisation by railways.6.Laying out a roadmap for Indian Railways, Mr Jaitley had said in his Budget 2018 speech that focus would be on modernisation of signalling, use of fog safety devices, better passenger amenities and safety.Budget 20171.
For financial year 2017-18, total capital and development expenditure of Railways were pegged at Rs 1,31,000 crore.2.
For passenger safety, a Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh creationwas announced with a corpus of Rs1 lakh crore over a period of five years.3.Unmanned level crossings on broad gauge lines were proposed to be eliminated by 2020.4.
It was proposed that 500 stations will be made differently-abled-friendly by providing lifts and escalators.5.
It was also proposed to feed about 7,000 stations with solar power in medium term.6.
The launch of 'Coach Mitra', a single-window interface to register all coach-related complaints and requirements was announced.
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