Suburban rail gets Rs 850 crore shot in the arm State budget has earmarked Rs 850 crore following Centre’s approval of the dedicated Rs 15,767-crore Suburban Railway Project in October 2020. Share Via Email | A+A A- By Express News Service BENGALURU: State budget has earmarked Rs 850 crore following Centre’s approval of the dedicated Rs 15,767-crore Suburban Railway Project in October 2020. Railway officials welcomed the move and said it was sufficient to meet the requirements in the first year. A top official of Karnataka Rail Infrastructure Development Enterprises (K-RIDE), the nodal agency for the project, said, “We have begun the process of land acquisition, civil construction, designing of plans and calling tenders.”