The most awaited rail project seems to be ready in the month of January as the railway has decided to run a passenger train on this route to fulfil the needs of the people of the area. Railways are gearing up apace to run the train on Koderma-Ranchi via Hazaribagh rail route. The dream of rail movement in this area is going to be true after 67 years of Independence.
According to The Chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO) Arvind Kumar Rajak , “Commissioner of Rail Safety (CRS) lucknow, Prabhat Kumar Vajpayee will inspect the new rail line on 23rd and 24th December. On his two days visit Vajpayee would be at Koderma and will inspect the new rail track on the route from Koderma to Padma, a stretch of 35 Kilometers and then Padma to Hazaribag on next day a stretch of 20.5 kilometers.” Notably, the CRS inspection was fixed on early December but due to Assembly elections in state it was postponed and now the CRS is going to inspect the rail line.
Project’s foundation stone had been laid in the year 1999 by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the presence of then Rail Minister Nitish Kumar and then energy minister P Kumar Mangalam. The project was targeted to complete in the year 2006 at an estimated cost of Rs 2957.21 crore. Two other rail projects started at that time one were Koderma-Giridih rail line a stretch of 110 kilometers at a estimated cost of Rs 768.87 crore and and Koderma Rail line at estimated cost of Rs 418.17 crore.
It is also significant that train movement was started on the Koderma-Giridih route previous year up to Nawadih a stretch of 35 kilometers. A single rack is on ferrying passengers between Koderma and Nawadih. The another rail project on Koderma-Ranchi via Hazaribag is going to be start after 15 years. The railway Officers of Dhanbad Rail Division BN lal, Amrendra Singh, BK Singh along with Arvind lal, Station Manager Koderma, Arvind Suman Traffic Inspector exercised on the route on Thursday keeping the CRS inspection in mind.