Chief Minister Raman Singh gave proposal for rail network and passenger facilities expansion in Chhattisgarh to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal during his meeting at New Delhi on Wednesday.
Railway Minister considering few of the proposals in positive note sanctioned it in principle. One of the proposals includes upgrading seven railway stations in state. On request of Chief Minister, he also gave his consent and sanctioned construction of 17 railway over-bridge and railway under-bridge.
Goyal said that in all the proposals, Ministry of Railways would conduct survey soon.
He directed the officials of Railway Minister to submit detail project report on Durg-Katghora-Mungeli-Kawardha-Dongergarh railway line and CCEA to be sanctioned soon.
He also gave consent for re-development of railway stations of Durg, Raigarh, Korba, Pendra Road, Dongergarh, Bhilai and Ambikapur along with extending Bikaner-Bilaspur train to Durg, running Vishakapatnam-Jagdalpur Special Charges Train as regular train on general ticket charge.
Railway Minister has given in principle consent to 17 railway overbridge/underbridge are Railway Railway route Kotarliya, Kirodimalnagar, Bhupdevpur, Robertson and Kharisa yard.
Chief Minister during the meeting had raised demand for superfast railway service on routes of lucknow, Patna, Pune, Jammu, Kanyakumari and Thiruvananthpuram. He also sought stoppage of trains at Rajnandgaon, Tilda and Bhatapara and to start coaching terminals at Raigarh, Dongergarh and Ambikapur. Railway Ministry and Government of Chhattisgarh senior officials were present in meeting.