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New Delhi, Dec 24: Indian Railways is focusing on providing better passenger amenities at stations having religious and tourist importance. Varanasi the oldest living city of the world with great religious and spiritual importance, receives millions of pilgrims and tourists from all over country and abroad. To provide the visitors best of facilities at the two railway stations of the city, ‘Varanasi City and Banaras’ Railways has redeveloped and modernized these stations, providing latest amenities, increasing passenger convenience, cleanliness and safety. Railways is also concentrating on increasing rail network in the Indo-Gangetic belt where a sizable population resides and there is significant agriculture, industrial and handicraft output. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Railways visited Varanasi today.
He inspected the workshop at Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW). Diesel and Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways are built in this facility. The Minister was briefed about the activities of the workshop. He interacted with the public representatives at BLW. Neel Kanth Tiwari and Ravindra Jaiswal Ministers in UP Govt, B. P. Saroj, MP, Surendra Narain Singh and Sharad Prasad, MLAs, Kendra Nath Singh, MLC and Hemant Singh, representative of Dr. M.N. Pandey, Union Minister of Heavy Industries put forward their demands.
The Minister shared that before 2014 Rs. 1,100 crore per year was allocated for railway projects in Uttar Pradesh which has been substantially increased to Rs. 12,000 crores per year by the present government.
Hon’ble MR then held a review meeting of the various on-going developmental projects of the region. Railways has already completed several developmental projects in the region in the recent times. Work is going on at a fast pace on many others. General Manager Northern Railway, Ashutosh Gangal, General Manager North Eastern Railway, Vinay Kumar Tripathi, General Manager North Central Railway, Pramod Kumar and General Manager, BLW, Sushri Anjali Goyal were present in the meeting.
Expressing satisfaction on the progress of the projects the Minister exhorted that the works should be completed on time also ensuring best quality so that the people of the region and the country as a whole can benefit from them. |
