{"id":2641,"date":"2026-02-02T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:00:23","slug":"exclusive-one-hour-chennai-bengaluru-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-reveals-big-budget-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: One-Hour Chennai\u2013Bengaluru? Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Reveals Big Budget Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Union Budget 2026 | In an exclusive conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, Ashwini Vaishnaw detailed the government\u2019s vision for railways under Union Budget 2026\u201327. Calling it a decade of transformation, the minister highlighted a massive \u20b92.78 lakh crore allocation, with \u20b91.2 lakh crore earmarked for safety. He said accidents have fallen sharply due to focused maintenance and modernisation. The budget accelerates track upgrades, new-generation trains like Vande Bharat, and seven high-speed corridors linking major economic hubs across India. Vaishnaw said faster connectivity will boost growth, mobility and quality of life, turning railways into a powerful economic multiplier.\u00a0<\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p>Union Budget 2026 Update\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <p>Union Budget 2026, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Railway Budget, High Speed Rail, Vande Bharat #Exclusive #OneHour #ChennaiBengaluru #Minister #Ashwini #Vaishnaw #Reveals #Big #Budget #Plan1770019223<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Budget 2026 | In an exclusive conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, Ashwini Vaishnaw detailed the government\u2019s vision for railways under Union Budget 2026\u201327. Calling it a decade of transformation, the minister highlighted a massive \u20b92.78 lakh crore allocation, with \u20b91.2 lakh crore earmarked for safety. He said accidents have fallen sharply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7963,1662,810,489,8135,4559,8132,4105,8134,1386,8131,4089,1892,7964,8133],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-ashwini","tag-ashwini-vaishnaw","tag-big","tag-budget","tag-chennaibengaluru","tag-exclusive","tag-high-speed-rail","tag-minister","tag-onehour","tag-plan","tag-railway-budget","tag-reveals","tag-union-budget-2026","tag-vaishnaw","tag-vande-bharat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}