Dinesh Dwivedi, Korea. Manendragarh MLA Shyam Bihari Jaiswal submitted the letter to Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai during the assembly session. In this, a demand was made for land acquisition and release of state share of Rs 120 crore 50 lakh for the construction of Chirmiri-Nagpur Halt railway line.
MLA Shyam Bihari Jaiswal met State Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai on the second day after taking oath on the first day of the 3-day assembly session. During this, he handed over the demand letter regarding the construction of Chirmiri-Nagpur Halt Rail Line, the much awaited demand of lakhs of people of rural area Kharagwan including Chirmiri-Manendragarh.
It may be noted that in 2018, an MoU was signed between the Railway Board and the then BJP government at a cost of Rs 241 crore with 50-50 percent expenditure. Under this, MLA Shyam Bihari Jaiswal informed Chief Minister Sai about the problems being faced in the construction of Chirmiri-Nagpur Halt rail line approved under this.
Jaiswal said that the process of land acquisition for this approved railway line has not been done by the state government till date, and due to the budget amounting to Rs 120 crore 50 lakh not being provided for the state share, there is a lot of delay in the completion of this important project. Already happened. For this project, the MLA has asked the Chief Minister to start the land acquisition process immediately and has requested to release the state share in the upcoming budget.
The newly elected MLA told the Chief Minister that with the completion of this project, lakhs of people of Chirmiri, Manendragarh, Khadgwan will be able to get the benefit of all passenger and express trains running from Ambikapur. With this, Nagpur Passenger Halt station will also get the status of a full station, and passenger facilities there will be expanded. During this, Chief Minister Sai has spoken to his OSD P Dayanand and asked for all the information about the progress report so far in this important railway line.
MLA Shyam Bihari Jaiswal has said that in my election manifesto, I had prominently said that we had done the bhoomi pujan of the railway line, and we will also complete its construction. In this sequence, I handed over the first demand letter to Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai today. Chief Minister Sai understood the entire project very seriously and has shown his interest in it, and I have full hope that the process of land acquisition will start and the state share will also be released in the upcoming budget.