Chief Minister Raghubar Das has instructed officials to expedite the work of railway projects and rail over bridges in the State presently at different stages of completion.
The Chief Minister while holding a review of the projects on Wednesday also opined that a corporation should be formed between the State Government and the Railway Ministry in the lines of Maharashtra.
“Corporation would ease the process and help in developing better coordination between the State Government and the Ministry. All the railway related works can be taken up through this corporation so that projects are completed in timely manner and hurdles coming in can be resolved quickly,” said an official present in the meeting, quoting the Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister during the review meeting instructed to complete the work of all the railway over bridges including Chutia ROB, Namkum Kandra ROB, Ketari Bagan ROB, Gaya pool in Dhanbad as soon as possible.
The Chief Minister at the same time also instructed to send proposals to the Railways Board from the State Government seeking extension of Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani and LTT Superfast run as daily, Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express go up to Jaipur, a train for Ranchi-Lucknow-Dehradun and for increasing the number of trains.
The meeting was also attended by Urban Development Minister CP Singh, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Sunil Kumar Barnwal, Road Construction Secretary KK Soan, Transport Secretary Pravin Toppo, General Manager of South Eastern Railway Purnendu Mishra, ADRM Ranchi Vijay Kumar, Senior DCM Avinash and Neeraj Kumar besides other railway officials.
Notably the Cabinet just a day ago had approved the proposal to extended tenure of the MoU signed between the Ministry and the State for six railway projects in Jharkhand till March 2020. At the same time third revision of the estimate has been done taking the amount to Rs 6505 crore from original Rs 1197 crore.
The six new BG lines namely Ranchi-Koderma, Koderma-Giridih, Koderma-Tilaiya, Deoghar-Dumka, Dumka-Rampur Haat and Ranchi-Lohardaga-Tori have either been completed or are at their advance stages of completion and expected to be completed in 2019-20. The projects are coming up on 50:50 share between the Center and the State.