New Delhi: Indian Railways has achieved a record 56.5% capital expenditure utilization by the end of September in FY26, marking its highest-ever mid-year performance in infrastructure spending.

Of the total budgetary allocation of ₹ 2.52 lakh trillion for FY26, the Railways has already utilized ₹ 1.42 trillion in the first half of the year, railway ministry data showed. This reflects an accelerated pace of project execution across key infrastructure segments, including safety, capacity augmentation, passenger amenities, and rolling stock. Also Read | Railways to join effort to build artificial ponds under Mission Amrit Sarovar

The safety works segment, which covers critical areas such as the indigenously developed Kavach automatic train protection system, track renewals, road ov

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