Under the Kharsiya-Dharamrajgarh-Korba rail corridor project, construction of 10 to 74 km rail line will start from October 2014.
To speed up rail corridor construction process, a high-level meeting was held here under the chairmanship of State Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Wednesday. Chairman Railway Board Arunendra Kumar and Union Coal Secretary SK Shrivastava were specially present in the meeting.In the meeting, a time-bound programme was chalked out to bring about momentum in the rail corridor construction process and a target set to start construction of 10 to 74 km rail line of KharsiyaDharamrajgarh-Korba Rail corridor in October 2014. The Chief Secretary while reviewing the survey and land acquisition work for the rail corridor construction, asked the Railway officials to take necessary action while keeping continuous contact with the Collector and the Forest Department officials.
He asked the Collector in Raigarh to publish notification for land acquisition soon. He instructed to send final rehabilitation report by July 15 this year. Dhand also asked the collectors of Bilaspur and Korba districts to ensure necessary action for the land acquisition in their respective areas.He told the officers of JVC, SICl and Railways to work with mutual coordination for starting the Rail corridor construction work on time.
Union Coal secretary SK Shrivastava told the Railway officials to prepare separate projects of zero to 10 km and 10-74 km under the East Rail Corridor.He asked them to submit application for forest land diversion by August 5, 2014, so that the Central Government could give permission for land diversion in the first week of September.In the meeting, a target has been fixed to complete survey and land acquisition work for second rail corridor from Govraroad to Pendraroad by December 31, 2014.
Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Transport Department, NK Aswal, Principal Secretary, Housing, Environment, Commerce and Industry Department N Baijendra Kumar, Principal Secretary, Forest Department, Amitabh Jain, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest AK Singh, Additional PCCF Mudit Kumar Singh, Secretary, Revenue Department KR Pisda, General Manager South East Railway Navin Tandon and officers from Railways, IRCON, JVC and other departments were present in the meeting.