Foundation will be laid for various schemes of the Indian Railway for Uttarakhand by the Union minister for Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on November 24 at Gairsain along with inauguration of varied railway related facilities. The Union Minister is slated to travel along with Garhwal MP and defence parliamentary committee chairman Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri by helicopter from Delhi to reach Gairsain by noon on Thursday.
According to information provided by the office of the Garhwal MP, Prabhu is slated to lay the foundation stone for various railway projects in the state including the doubling of Haridwar-laksar section, installation of two lifts and two elevators at the Dehradun railway station, four lifts and six elevators at the Haridwar railway station and the second coach maintenance pit and machine laundry at lalkuan railway station. The union minister is also slated to inaugurate five base PP shelters for passengers and coach indication boards on all three platforms at Kathgodam railway station, private freight terminal at Kashipur railway station, new three-line station on Hempur Ismail, one PP shelter and coach indicator board on all the three platforms at Haldwani railway station, passengers waiting room and coach indicator board at the Rudrapur city railway station along with one PP shelter for passengers and coach indicator boards on all four platforms of the lalkuan railway station. later, at about 1:30 PM, Prabhu and Khanduri are scheduled to address a public gathering at Gairsain on the same day.