Mumbai has been allocated nearly 12 per cent less funding for key rail infrastructure compared to last year, showed this year’s Rail Budget. As per allocation figures, shared on Wednesday evening, the three Mumbai Urban Transport Projects will get Rs 575 crore as against Rs 650 crore a year ago. An equal amount will be shelled out by the state for the projects.

This is the first budget under a non-Mumbai railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, since the BJP government took over in 2014. Barring D V Sadanand Gowda, who held the railway portfolio for 167 days, Suresh Prabhu and Piyush Goyal who were railway ministers have a Mumbai base. Apart from the MUTP allocation, an additional Rs 2.5 crore has been given separately for the upgrade of Harbour line trains from 9 cars to 12 cars.