Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Saturday reviewed the Dallirajahra-Rowghat Rail project and directed the officers of related departments to promptly resolve the issues related to the project so that the project is completed at the earliest. In a meeting with the senior officers of the State Government, Railways,
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), and Forest Department held at Mantralaya, Dhand said that all the procedures and issues related to the project should be completed as soon as possible. He also insisted for completing the works under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Dhand directed the officers to start the work for construction of access routes around the iron ore reservoir in Rowghat, start the work for establishing livelihood College by BSP under CSR and for establishment of a GRP police station in Dallirajahra.
The officers of railway informed in the meeting that the work of laying line from Dallirajahra to Dondilohara will be completed by March-end. The trial of the 17 km long track will be done by running passenger train in April. It was informed in the meeting that tender process for laying track, from 18 km to 42 km in the area in Kanker district, under the project has been completed. This 24 km long portion of the project will cost Rs160 crores and the work of laying railway line will be started from March 10, 2015. The target has been set to complete the work by September 2017.
The work of felling of trees in 43 km out of 84 km stretch will be completed by May this year while the tender process for laying railway line will be completed by June. For the last 10 km (from 85 km to 95 km) of the project, the work of alignment survey will be completed by March 31, 2015 while the work of felling of trees will be done by May. The tender process for laying railway line in this stretch will be done in November 2015.
During the meeting the Chief Secretary took status report of the project from the Kanker Collector Alarmel Mangai D and Balod Collector NK Shukla through video conferencing. Principal Secretary of Forest Department RP Mandal, Secretary of Mineral Department Subodh Singh, Director General of Police AN Upadhyay, Secretary of Home Department Ashok Juneja, CEO of Bhilai Steel Plant S Chandrasekaran, Director Industries and Commerce Kartikeya Goyal, IG of Durg range Pradeep Gupta and other senior officers were present in the meeting.