The Hindu : `Many projects ignored in Rly. Budget'

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Monday, Mar 04, 2002

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`Many projects ignored in Rly. Budget'

By Our Staff Correspondent

RAICHUR MARCH 3. Raja Rangappa Naik, former MP, has expressed displeasure over the inaction of the Railway Ministry in launching work on the Munirabad-Mahaboobnagar, Bidar-Gulbarga, Wadi-Gadag, and Raichur-Gadwal railway lines in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region. In a letter to the Minister for Railways, Nitish Kumar, he said the Railway Budget had not included railway links in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region although the previous government at the Centre had promised to improve rail services and the economic development of the region.

He said the 265-km. Munirabad-Mahaboobnagar railway line was an important link between Goa and Hyderabad. The former Prime Minister, Deve Gowda, inaugurated the survey of this line in January 1997, and the Minister of State for Railways, Digvijay Singh, launched the work on it in December 2000. However, the project had not figured the Railway Budget.

He said there was also a demand from the public that a super fast train between Bangalore and Solapur, a Jana Shatabdi train between Bangalore and Gulbarga, and an inter-city train between Raichur and Gulbarga be introduced.

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