Lack of land hampered development projects in Bengal, says Union Rly minister Vaishnaw

“West Bengal has Rupees 60 1000 crore concern opportunity,” Vaishnaw said, adding, “Development is the request of the hour. There should not beryllium immoderate authorities surrounding railway projects. If the authorities authorities supports us, these 61 pending projects tin beryllium expedited for the involvement of the people.”

Vaishnaw mentioned that determination are 26kms of Metro railway projects wherever enactment cannot proceed owed to land-related issues. He, further, highlighted improvement milestones achieved nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi, peculiarly noting the enlargement of the Metro web successful Kolkata, which accrued from 28 km successful 2014 to 38 km.

Additionally, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya appealed to the Union Rail curate to sanction Sealdah presumption successful the sanction of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.

“During partition, lakhs of radical crossed borders and came to Bengal, present astatine the Sealdah station. Mukherjee that clip camped present and helped people. So we privation this presumption to beryllium named aft him,” Bhattacharya said.

However, Trinamool Congress person Kunal Ghosh said, “If they honestly privation to sanction Sealdah station, they should sanction it Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji came from the USA and reached present successful Sealdah. People of Kolkata received him from Sealdah presumption and organised a march with him.”

Later, Vaishnaw besides participated successful a Swachhata Abhiyan programme successful Kolkata and visited the Gandhi Bhawan successful Beleghata.

During his sojourn to the Braithwaite & Co. Ltd. works successful Kolkata, a nationalist assemblage undertaking engaged successful the manufacture of railway wagons and different products, Vaishnaw highlighted that the institution has systematically revived itself successful the past 10 years. “Braithwaite is simply a precise celebrated institution that has suffered losses for a precise agelong time. Over the past 10 years, the institution has revived systematically. New technologies and manufacturing capabilities were introduced and developed, which is simply a bully illustration of the revival of a PSU company,” helium said.

“Last year, the company’s gross was Rs 1,100 crore, and this twelvemonth the gross volition beryllium Rs 1,400 crore. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revived the institution precise well, and contiguous I person travel present for the inspection of the works and to program the Swachhata inaugural here,” helium further added.

Addressing concerns astir railway accidents, helium said that obstruction accidents person decreased and that the Railway Ministry conducts thorough investigations into the causes of each mishap to code systemic and structural issues.

“Ten years ago, determination were 171 accidents annually, but that fig was reduced to 40 past year—a much than 60 per cent reduction. Derailments, which averaged 450-500 annually under the UPA government, person present decreased to astir 80. As we support connected improving the grooming practices of our employees and enactment connected technology, things are improving..,” helium said.

— With PTI inputs