Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh of Railways

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The ‘Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK)’ has been introduced, as announced by Minister of Finance in his Budget Speech 2017-18, for works relating to renewal, replacement, upgradation of critical safety assets. The Fund has a corpus of 1 lakh crore over a period of five years, having an assured annual outlay of 20,000 crore with 15,000 crore as contribution from Gross Budgetary Support and 5,000 crore from internal resources of the Railways. In 2017-18, out of the outlay of 20,000 crore, expenditure of 16091 crore has been incurred out of RRSK. In the current year also a provision of 20,000 crore has been made in Budget Estimate and 3256 crore have been spent till end of June, 2018.

The fund under ‘Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK)’ is being utilized to finance safety related works under plan-heads Track Renewals, Bridge Works, Signalling and Telecommunication Works, Road Safety Works of Level Crossings and Road Over/Under Bridges, Rolling Stock, Traffic Facilities, Electrical Works, Machinery and Plant, Workshops, Passenger Amenities and Training/HRD.