The Hindu : `Govt. committed to developing railways'

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Wednesday, Apr 02, 2003

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`Govt. committed to developing railways'

By Our Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR ARPIL 1. The Railway Minister, Nitish Kumar, today said the Government was committed to taking the Railways closer to the people.

Dedicating the new East Coast Railway zone to the nation, Mr. Kumar said Rs. 340 crores would be spent through the zone during 2003-04. More money would be spent under non-Plan head.

The Minister flagged off the Bhubaneswar-Yashwantpur weekly Express. The new train, which would connect Bhubaneswar with Bangalore, would run from Bhubaneswar every Sunday and from Yashwantpur every Tuesday.

Mr. Kumar, who dedicated two new Railway zones to the nation earlier in the day, with their headquarters at Allahabad and Jabalpur, said that further development of Railways would be made with the implementation of the Rs. 15,000-crore Rashtriya Rail Vikas Yojana.

The East Coast Railway, headquartered here, had been carved out of the existing South Eastern Railway. The zone comprised three divisions — Khurda Road, Visakhapatnam and Sambalpur. The Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, thanked the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Mr. Kumar for operationalising the East Coast Railway. He hoped that the Centre would give special attention to the development of railways in Orissa.

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