5 States Clear Land For Dedicated Railway Freight Corridor: Report
The approval got here after Piyush Goyal’s letter (Report)
New Delhi:
Gujarat, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab have expedited land acquisition procedure for the devoted freight corridors, days after Railway Minister Piyush Goyal wrote to 9 leader ministers, asking for them to transparent hurdles within the mission.
In his letter, Mr Goyal had advised the executive ministers that High Minister Narendra Modi used to be intently tracking the growth of the Rs 81,000-crore mission.
In a up to date assembly, the High Minister’s Workplace had wondered the lengthen within the mission, with its time limit being moved from December 2021 to June 2022.
During the last seven days, the Railways has looked after out land acquisition problems with those 5 states.
In Punjab, the Railways agreed to the state executive’s proposal to permit it to borrow cash from the Devoted Freight Hall Company of India Restricted (DFCCIL) for the development of road-under bridges, whilst in sure spaces of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, it has coordinated with native government to deploy police drive to take care of regulation and order problems.
In Punjab, the long-pending land ownership problems for street below bridges and street over bridges at 3 places had been resolved, Railways officers stated, whilst land problems for building of top rigidity line at two places have been resolved.
In Bihar’s Rohtas district, 3 groups had been shaped to expedite cost and taking bodily ownership of land, and police had been deployed at two street over bridges which were authorized, the officers stated.
In Jharkhand’s Giridh district, Rs 60 crore had been distributed for land, whilst in Dhanbad, two acres of land which used to be caught has been gained.
The mission calls for most land in Uttar Pradesh.
In Kanpur, it has gained the long-stuck 80-m lengthy piece of land wanted for an manner street for a street below bridge, whilst the remainder 40-metre can be gained via September 15, the officers stated.
A five-km patch in Saharanpur district which used to be caught for over 2.five years because of regulation and order problems used to be additionally cleared and ownership taken via the Railways on September 6, they stated, including identical caught land patches within the state have been additionally cleared.
In Gujarat too, 3 street over bridges in Bharuch and 7 in Surat had been awarded.
To place the Railways’ freight mission so as, Mr Goyal held a number of assembly stakeholders and officers to expedite the growth and unravel important problems with the DFC during the last 10 days.
