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| Another joke with Jammu: Govt shelves Jammu-Poonch railway project | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 17: Notwithstanding repeated claims of the BJP leaders, Union Government has shelved the much-talked-about Jammu Poonch railway line project for which the final survey report was submitted in the year 2018 with an estimated cost of rupees 22,771 crores for laying Broad Gauge (BG) rail line connecting Jammu with border district Poonch via Rajouri.
The information in this regard has been shared by the Ministry of Railways Government of India in response to two different Right to Information applications by a Jammu-based information seeker Raman Sharma. In response to the RTI pleas of the applicant, Railway Board vide its Letters dated 07-March-2022 and 15 March 2022, signed by Pankaj Kumar, Director Projects and Central Public Information of Railway Board has stated that the Survey for the new railway line between Jammu to Poonch having a length of 223 K.M was completed in 2017-18 but the project could not be taken forward being ‘ financially unviable. The signed reply by the CPIO further states that the survey has been shelved with the approval of the Railway board. While responding to another query of the applicant regarding any other proposal as on date pending with the Ministry of Railways for providing and Laying Rail Line between Jammu to Poonch, the Railway Board officer replied in negative and stated that presently there is no proposal under consideration for this line. It is pertinent to mention here that connecting the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch with Jammu has been a decades-old pending demand of social and political organization of these border districts. |
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