2024-25 PB for ER clearly shows ER is a major passenger carrying Zone of IR and getting lots of projects allocation for passenger carrying trains compared to SER, ECOR zones which got budget allocations for Freight trains mostly.
Below major ER passengers trains related projects:
1. Eastern Railway-Upgradation/development of maintenance infrastructure for energy efficient Vande Bharat Sleeper trains asper conditions underWTA 527 (PB#5/NR/Suppl./Dec'2022) (through order No 154 of 2022-23)
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more... Eastern Railway-Upgradation/ Development of maintenance facilities for other Rolling Stocks (LHB/ICF/MEMU/DEMU/EMU) (PB#63/NR/2023-24)
3. EasternRailway-Upgradation / augmentationof coaching rolling stock (incl DPRS) maintenance facilities in the open line (PB#771/CR/2022-23)
4.Sealdah - Development of coaching maintenance infrastructure
5. Dankuni - Construction of new coaching terminal
Also ER got many Freight trains projects this year PB along with SER, ECOR
1.Eastern Railway-Augmentation of freight maintenance facilities
2. Eastern Railway-Augmentation / Upgradation of Wagon Maintenance infrastructure (PB#1185/NR/2023-24)
3. Eastern Railway-Next Generation Freight Maintenance Yards (PB#1164/NR/2023-24)
Overall a very good and balanced PB projects and allocations for ER with equal importance to Passenger to Freight related projects.
SER & ECOR on the otherhand got mainly Freight related projects with only 1 project related to VB maintainance which is passenger related project.
New line/doubling/stn development projects not considered in this post.