A delegation of BJP MPs from Jharkhand led by former Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday met Union Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda at his office in Delhi. Munda handing over a memorandum to the railway minister also expressed concern over the problem of security in the trains. Gowda assured them to complete the pending projects in the state soon.
Munda told the minister that the people of Jharkhand expect better rail facilities for them but every year they get disappointed due to insensitive attitude of the Centre towards the State.
Munda also demanded several trains from important stations in Jharkhand to certain prominent cities in the Country.
The delegation conveyed to the minister that the people of Jharkhand this time believe that the state will not be deprived of the much sought after rail facilities and the recommendations made by the state for the financial year 2014-15 will be addressed by the minister. The minister after listening to the delegation has assured that the ministry will take care of the demands being made by them.
The demands made by the delegation include new trains from Jamshedpur to Ranchi and lucknow via Dehradun. Demands have also been made for trains from Ranchi to Hyderabad via Nagpur, Jamshedpur-Chennai daily service, Ranchi to Bhopla via Indore, Ranchi to Ahmedabad via Surat and Ranchi to Tiruvanantpuram, Ranchi to Delhi Duranto Express, Giridih to Kolkata as well as express trains from
The delegation also demanded daily service of certain trains like - Ranchi New Delhi Rajdhani Express, Ranchi Mumbai lTT Express as well as Hatia Yashwantpur Express, which runs only twice or thrice in a week. In addition to that, they also demanded five days a week service of some important trains like Ranchi-Alipurdwar Express, Ranchi to Ajmer Sharif Express, Hatia Pune Express as well as Ranchi Ajmersharif Express. The delegation also asked to extend Purushottam Express to Ajmer Sharif.
Munda during the meeting with the Union Railway Minister also sought to start the pending trains in the state. He was accompanied by MPs Sunil Singh, VD Ram and Vidutvaran Mahto who also put the problems related to transportation before the minister.
Munda stressed to expedite in the work progress on Ranchi-Barkakana-Hazaribagh-Koderma, Ranchi-Koderma-lohardaga-Giridih, Deoghar-Dumka and Dumka-Rampurhat lines as well as Tatanagar-Kandra-Ranchi routes.
The delegation also handed over a list of 38 rail over-bridges needs to be built under South-Eastern as well as Eastern railways to the minister. Referring to the problem of security in the trains, Munda said that immediate steps must be taken to ensure proper security in trains.
Talking the regional disparity into consideration, Munda also asked for employment generation through infrastructural development in the state.
Munda also demanded trauma centre at Dhanbad, Ranchi and Chakradharpur Railway stations and high level facilities to the passengers at Hatia, Tatanagar, Jasidih, Barkakana and Dhanbad etc.
Meanwhile, Munda congratulating Professor Akhauri Sinha for getting hillocks named after him, said that it is an honour given to his dedication and research work from which need we need to take inspiration from.