BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday suggested the Centre to introduce a passenger educate within the newly-constructed Balangir-Bhainsapalli section of the 289-km Khurda -Balangir venture.
The 16-km line is anticipated to be inaugurated through Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the way through his proposed consult with to Balangir on January 16.
Naveen, in a letter to Union railway minister Piyush Goyal, mentioned railways has not presented any passenger educate within the section for which individuals are waiting since lengthy. “I request you to introduce one passenger educate within the section with out any more prolong in order that the genuine aspirations of the people of western Odisha can be met,” Naveen mentioned within the letter.
Naveen’s letter got here a day prior to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled consult with to the state to inaugurate development projects value Rs four,500 crore.
After final touch of the work on the 16-km direction, the required inspection of commissioner of railway safety was once also finished in October 2018 and trial run is being carried out on it, mentioned an legit.
The CM also reiterated his call for for creation of mail and categorical trains from Nayagarh town to cities like Howrah and Visakhapatnam.
There are trains like Garib Rath categorical originating from Bhubaneswar to Kolkata, which can be prolonged to Nayagarh town without any problem, Naveen mentioned.
The educate, if prolonged, will greatly assist folks of Nayagarh, Kandhamal, Boudh, Sonepur and Balangir to have higher access to coastal belt of the state as well as to the economic hub of Kolkata and Visakhapatnam.
As the Khurda-Balangir venture may not be finished even after two decades of its approval, the state government in July 2015 had signed a MoU with the railway ministry to increase it on cost-sharing foundation. According to the MoU, the state government will undergo 50% venture charge and supply land freed from charge for the 177-km Daspalla-Balangir stretch.
Reminding it to Goyal, Naveen mentioned his government had pursued with the railways to begin work from the Balangir-end for which 19 km of land was once handed over in 2010.
The rail venture, which would attach the coastal area with the western portions of the state, was once sanctioned through the Centre in 1994-95. Total 66 km from Khurda Road side up to Nayagarh of the the most important rail line has already been commissioned and a passenger educate has started rolling.
The 16-km line is anticipated to be inaugurated through Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the way through his proposed consult with to Balangir on January 16.
Naveen, in a letter to Union railway minister Piyush Goyal, mentioned railways has not presented any passenger educate within the section for which individuals are waiting since lengthy. “I request you to introduce one passenger educate within the section with out any more prolong in order that the genuine aspirations of the people of western Odisha can be met,” Naveen mentioned within the letter.
Naveen’s letter got here a day prior to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled consult with to the state to inaugurate development projects value Rs four,500 crore.
After final touch of the work on the 16-km direction, the required inspection of commissioner of railway safety was once also finished in October 2018 and trial run is being carried out on it, mentioned an legit.
The CM also reiterated his call for for creation of mail and categorical trains from Nayagarh town to cities like Howrah and Visakhapatnam.
There are trains like Garib Rath categorical originating from Bhubaneswar to Kolkata, which can be prolonged to Nayagarh town without any problem, Naveen mentioned.
The educate, if prolonged, will greatly assist folks of Nayagarh, Kandhamal, Boudh, Sonepur and Balangir to have higher access to coastal belt of the state as well as to the economic hub of Kolkata and Visakhapatnam.
As the Khurda-Balangir venture may not be finished even after two decades of its approval, the state government in July 2015 had signed a MoU with the railway ministry to increase it on cost-sharing foundation. According to the MoU, the state government will undergo 50% venture charge and supply land freed from charge for the 177-km Daspalla-Balangir stretch.
Reminding it to Goyal, Naveen mentioned his government had pursued with the railways to begin work from the Balangir-end for which 19 km of land was once handed over in 2010.
The rail venture, which would attach the coastal area with the western portions of the state, was once sanctioned through the Centre in 1994-95. Total 66 km from Khurda Road side up to Nayagarh of the the most important rail line has already been commissioned and a passenger educate has started rolling.
CM Naveen Patnaik demands train on Khurda to Balangir route
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