Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today termed the rail budget as "progressive and historic" which addressed the poor, Dalit, senior citizens, the handicapped, women, pilgrims and the North East.
"It is a progressive and historic rail budget. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi's concern about the NE remaining untouched by development has also been addressed with proposals to connect it through broad gauge (Lumding-Silchar section in Assam)," Das said praising Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.
The rail budget has also given priority to the Prime Minister's 'Swachh Bharat Mission' dream of 2019 when the nation will celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversay, he said.
It has also proposed separate toilets for the Dibyang (the handicapped), Das added.
