Delhi-Varanasi High-Speed Rail in 230 Minutes: UP Gets Record Railway Budget

• Uttar Pradesh receives a record railway budget of Rs 20,012 crore, 18 times more than during the Congress tenure.
• Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced two new high-speed corridors for UP: Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri.
• The Delhi-Varanasi corridor will reduce travel time to 3 hours 50 minutes, while Varanasi-Siliguri via Patna will take 2 hours 55 minutes.
• Uttarakhand also gets a significant budget of Rs 4769 crore, 26 times higher than the Congress era.
• Work on Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train is progressing, and 157 stations in UP are being redeveloped, with new Amrit Bharat trains launched.

Why It Matters: UP and Uttarakhand receive record railway budgets and new high-speed corridors for enhanced connectivity.