Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a 4 km elevated track in place of an existing Rohtak -Gohana line in Rohtak city through video-conferencing from Bandra in north-west Mumbai. A parallel synchronised foundation-laying ceremony was also held at Rohtak for the same occasion.
The Rs 315 crore project involves the construction of an elevated track covering a distance of 4 km adjacent to the existing alignment leaving 12 meter-wide strip for development of a road on railway land. While the Railways will pitch in Rs 90 crore, the Haryana Government will bear an expenditure of Rs 225 crore in the execution of the project. Speaking on the occasion, Prabhu greeted the people of Haryana on the occasion of Haryana Formation Day and also wished them on the festive occasion of Bhai Dooj by dedicating this novel infrastructural development, a first of its kind in Indian Railways, in order to extend greater connectivity in the State.
While the Minister was welcomed by Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Central Division, Western Railway Mukul Jain, Haryana’s Minister of State for Co-operation (Independent Charge) Manish Kumar Grover, was the Guest of Honour on this occasion at Rohtak.
On his part, Haryana chief minister Manohar lal Khattar spoke to Prabhu over telephone and expressed his gratitude to Prabhu for launching the elevated track project in his State.