Andhra Pradesh has received a significant boost in the Union Railway Budget for the financial year 2026-27, with an allocation of INR 10,134 crore – an increase of INR 717 crore over last year’s budget. The total railway outlay in the Union Budget stands at INR 2,78,030 crore.
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the State’s gains, stating that Andhra Pradesh’s railway budget allocation has grown more than 11 times compared to the average annual allocation of INR 886 crore during 2009-2014 for the erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh.
Infrastructure projects worth INR 92,649 crore are currently under execution in Andhra Pradesh. The railway network has achieved 100% electrification in the State. Vaishnaw also announced two high-speed rail corridors – Hyderabad-Bengaluru and Hyderabad-Chennai – will pass through Andhra Pradesh. These projects are expected to drastically reduce travel time, with Hyderabad-Bengaluru taking just two hours, and Hyderabad-Chennai about 2 hours and 55 minutes.
The Union Minister emphasized that these high-speed railway corridors (bullet train corridors) will be on elevated platforms, ensuring minimal disruption to public movement in the regions they pass through, and the trains will have a speed of 350 kmph. Notably, the corridors will not divide farmlands.
After the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, the NDA government at the Centre, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is pursuing expanding such networks across the nation, initially taking up seven more such corridors, including five in South India.
