Trivedi sensitized about State’s needs
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, Minister of State for Railways K H Muniappa, and Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi at a meeting on the State’s railway needs in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Hyderabad: The railway projects proposed in the state would take a minimum of 22 years for completion at this pace of funding. This is the impression the Union Minister for Railways Dinesh Trivedi has given when he had a meeting with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and the Members of Parliament from the...
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State on the railway projects of the State at Jubilee Hall on Wednesday.
He wanted the railways and the State government to focus their attention on the projects to be competed on priority basis in the next five years.
The Union Minister stated that the Railway Ministry would require Rs 14 lakh crores in the next ten years for completing the railway projects on hand. It is working out the modalities for mobilizing resources in a big way to take up the new projects that included new rail lines, railway stations, ROB and RUBs, electrification and so on. Responding positively to the representation made by the MPs from the State, he said that the high level meeting organized by the State government would pay off.
The results would reflect in the ensuing railway budget, he said adding that the meeting would help him acquaint with the needs of the rail commuters from the State and the minister would attend to them on priority basis. The Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniappa, Chairman of Railway Board Vinay Mittal also took part in the meeting.