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Yavatmal people hope Rly Budget chugs along in their favour
EXPECTATIONS and anxiety will be high when the first Railway Budget of the new Bharatiya Janata Partyled Government is presented in the Parliament on July 8. People of Yavaimal district are hoping that the long-pending works are given a green signal this time. The newly re-elected MPs Hansraj Ahir and Bhavana Gawali have been pressing for conversion of the narrow gauge Yavaimal-Murtijapur line into broad gauge as well as speeding up of the Wardha Yavatmal Nanded line ever since they were in the Opposition. Now that their party is holding the reins of power, people of die region are hoping for some good news.
There is some amusing trivia about the railway track in Yavatmal. The Yavatmal Murtijapur narrow gauge line was constructed by a British company in 1913 in lure of the high quality cotton produced in the region. After reaching Murtijapur, the cotton would be taken to erstwhile Bombay by broad gauge and later transported to England by a ship. After Independence, all railway routes came under Central rule, but the Yavatmal-Murtijapur narrow gauge track is Mill owned by the British company and the Indian Railways pays it a royalty. However, owing to persistent losses, it has become difficult for the Railways department to pay the royal-iv and therefore closure of the line is being mooted.
Yavaimal-Washim MP Bhavana Gawali had pursued the demand for conversion of the Yavatmal-Murtijapur narrow gauge line into broad gauge since long. "The ruling party is not willing to fulfill the demand." she had complained in the past. But now with Narcndra Modi in office, hope of fulfillment of the demand have heightened.
Similarly, the Social Justice Minister of Maharashtra Shivajirao Moghe has also been striving since last 20 years for the Wardha-Nanded via Yavatmal route so that industrial growth in the region gets an impetus. Finally, on February 19. 2009 bhoomipujan for the new line was performed by the then Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the presence of the then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. It was a Rs 693 crore worth of project then with State Government asked 10 share 40 per cent of the cost. However, the work never really picked up after that. Government has acquired land from Wardha upto Lohara near Yavatmal. Work of railway staffers' residential quarters has also been left midway. Today, the cost of the project has risen tors 1.500 crore.
With MPs Gawali. Ahir, Vijay Darda and Minister Moghe pursuing the demands with Government diligently, people have not given up on their hopes. In fact. Gawali had met the Union Railways Minister D V Sadanattd Gowda a few days ago and submitted memorandum about the gauge conversion and Wardha-Nanded line.
Amidst the heightened anxiety all eyes Of people and leaders of the region are on the Railway Budget on Tuesday to see if their hopes get chugging on the right track or are chucked out. yet again.
There is some amusing trivia about the railway track in Yavatmal. The Yavatmal Murtijapur narrow gauge line was constructed by a British company in 1913 in lure of the high quality cotton produced in the region. After reaching Murtijapur, the cotton would be taken to erstwhile Bombay by broad gauge and later transported to England by a ship. After Independence, all railway routes came under Central rule, but the Yavatmal-Murtijapur narrow gauge track is Mill owned by the British company and the Indian Railways pays it a royalty. However, owing to persistent losses, it has become difficult for the Railways department to pay the royal-iv and therefore closure of the line is being mooted.
Yavaimal-Washim MP Bhavana Gawali had pursued the demand for conversion of the Yavatmal-Murtijapur narrow gauge line into broad gauge since long. "The ruling party is not willing to fulfill the demand." she had complained in the past. But now with Narcndra Modi in office, hope of fulfillment of the demand have heightened.
Similarly, the Social Justice Minister of Maharashtra Shivajirao Moghe has also been striving since last 20 years for the Wardha-Nanded via Yavatmal route so that industrial growth in the region gets an impetus. Finally, on February 19. 2009 bhoomipujan for the new line was performed by the then Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the presence of the then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. It was a Rs 693 crore worth of project then with State Government asked 10 share 40 per cent of the cost. However, the work never really picked up after that. Government has acquired land from Wardha upto Lohara near Yavatmal. Work of railway staffers' residential quarters has also been left midway. Today, the cost of the project has risen tors 1.500 crore.
With MPs Gawali. Ahir, Vijay Darda and Minister Moghe pursuing the demands with Government diligently, people have not given up on their hopes. In fact. Gawali had met the Union Railways Minister D V Sadanattd Gowda a few days ago and submitted memorandum about the gauge conversion and Wardha-Nanded line.
Amidst the heightened anxiety all eyes Of people and leaders of the region are on the Railway Budget on Tuesday to see if their hopes get chugging on the right track or are chucked out. yet again.
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