Kamal Sharma pushes for Rail Line between Ferozepur-Patti, meets Union MoS for Railways
Ten important issues concerning railways also taken up
Kamal Sharma pushes for Rail Line between Ferozepur-Patti, meets Union MoS for Railways
Ferozepur March 19, 2016 : Punjab BJP President Kamal Sharma has met the Union Minister of State for Railways Manoj Kumar Sinha and has taken up the matter of the pending new Rail Line between Ferozepur and Patti measuring 25.47-km. Sharma has also requested the Minister to look into the ten other requests pertaining to the Railway Ministry.
Giving details in this regard, Kamal Sharma said that he has met Shri Sinha in the national capital and discussed several railway related issues. The meeting started with Sharma extending his thanks to the Minister for extending the Delhi-Bathinda Shatabdi to Ferozepur.
Divulging with further details of the meeting, Sharma said, I brought to the note of Sinha that Ministry of Railways had written a Demi Official (DO) letter dated April 11, 2013 to the Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal regarding the construction of the new Railway Line between Ferozepur and Patti measuring 25.47-km. As per the survey report, the cost of construction was assessed as Rs 147.28 cr in year 2009-10. The Punjab Government had in principle agreed to provide free of cost land involved in the Ferozepur-Mallanwala-Patti-Amritsar rail link.”
Sharma further shared that he also briefed Sinha that with this rail link, Jammu will be linked to Gujrat directly and the longer via's will be curtailed. “Punjab CM had recently requested the Ministry to clarify that the land price will be borne by the Punjab Government and the construction cost would be borne by the Union Railway Ministry”, he told the Minister. Sharma said that he had a very good meeting with Sinha and he was very positive.
Sharma said that apart from this, he has also given Sinha a list of the ten important requests made by the Divisional Railway Manager, Ferozepur. Besides the connectivity between Ferozepur-Patti, the requests in the list includes daily express train between Ferozepur-Haridwar via KKP-BTI; requirement of additional DMUs services in Abohar-Fazilka-Abohar, Ferozepur-Jalandhar, Ferozepur-Ludhiana and Jalandhar-Jammu route; daily express train between Ferozepur-Katra via JUC-PTKC and tri-weekly express train between Ferozepur-New Delhi via JUC-LDH.
