Respect to that 24000 people. Everyone needs to remember that it is because of railways constructed through thull and bhor ghats that Mumbai is connected to majority of India, Mumbai pune/nashik have come closer inspite of a yawning divide between them. But we need to appreciate that it is because of British that India has good rail network. Britishers constructed 1000s of kms in 100 years, that too through difficult terrains like thull, bhor, parsik etc. I respect the infrastructural upgradation by indian govt after independence, but had the tracks started to build after independence, indian railways would not even be half the size of network today. But hopefully, Suresh prabhu govt is much appreciable.

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Appreciate Britishers...really!!! People were starving bcoz of famine and they were busy in construction Railway lines just for their personal benefit and you think that they did a commendable job? Bondage laborers were used to construct these Railway lines under Pathetic work condition, no Human rights and they were forcibly compelled by the autocratic British empire to work in that inhuman conditions just for their own personal benefit. Thousand died in the course of construction but nobody was there to even cry for them and still you think that they did all this for the betterment of India Citizens? Bombay was a industrial hub and a major port city so for the convenient movement of their goods they needed this Railway line and that was the sole purpose behind the construction of Railway lines in hilly terrains and ghat areas.

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Sorry and Thank you, but I wasn't really aware of this fact. Thanks for clarifying. British had ideas, technology and determination, but they should not have used our Indian labourers inhumanly.

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