RAIL MINISTER URGED TO SET UP VARSITY
IN ODISHA-C’GARH BORDER
Saturday,
12 July 2014 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar
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Non-resident Odia (NRO) Prof Digamabara Patra, a resident of
Kalahandi district, who is currently teaching Chemistry in the American
University of Beirut in Lebanon, has sought establishment of a Railway
University in Odisha-Chhattisgarh border. Besides, he has demanded adequate
allocation for some of the oldest railway projects in Odisha which have either
not started or are moving at a snail’s pace due to apathy by the Indian
Railways.
Writing
a letter to Union Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda, Patra said in 1962-63,
late MP Pratap Keshari Deo had pointed out in the Parliament that Parkers had
done a railway line survey from Kesinga to Nabarangpur to join
Kothavalasa-Kirandul (KK) line, because Koraput-Kothavalasa and
Koraput-Rayagada are special category railway routes having many tunnels and
high-level bridges.
The
speed is limited (often less than 50 kmph) and number of wagon can’t exceed 30
during mineral transportations in these two routes. The idea is
Amabguda-Lanjigarh road railway line will make mineral transportation from
Kirandul to Visakhapatnam faster and easier.
Realizing
this, in 1991, Laniigarh road-Junagarh line was approved to connect with KK
line at Ambaguda via Nabarangpur.
The
56 km Lanjigarh road-Junagarh line of this route took 25 years to get
completed. However, surveyed Junagarh-Ambaguda portion of this route has not
yet been approved which will bring railway connection to tribal dominated
Nabarangur district. KK line is one of the most profit-making routes of the
Indian Railways. Immediate action is needed for approval and completion of rest
of Junagarh-Ambaguda line without any delay.
He
lamented that no allotment of fund was made for the Wagon Maintenance Workshop
at Kalahandi and Skill Development Center at Koraput in the profit making ECOR
zone. He opined that a bottom-to-top approach needs to be adhered to by the
Railways so as to give adequate exposure to the backward regions.
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