Mukul fast-tracks Bengal projects
True to his image of being a man of organisation, Trinamul Congress leader and Union railways minister Mukul Roy has fast-tracked projects in West Bengal. Within days of being sworn in as minister, Mr Roy has held a series of review meetings with Eastern Railway and South-eastern Railways officials and is stated to have asked official to make the Haldia projects, which will manufacture 10,000 each bogies and couplers a year, operational by year-end.
The Railways officials said the ambitious Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) factory at Haldia, which is spread over 42.5 acres and being implemented through public-private partnership (PPP) mode, has been fast-tracked with the Union minister reportedly keeping a close eye on the pace of work. “The project will be operational by November this year,” said a senior official.
After Mr Roy held a high-level meeting in Kolkata to review the progress of the Haldia project with senior officials of the South-eastern Railways, a team of officials visited the spot to check the status. The project is close to the heart of the TMC chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who had laid the foundation stone for the project when she was the railway minister in February 2001. However, the project got delayed due to land dispute at the original place of Howrah’s Sankrail.
Senior officials said that Mr Roy has set top priority on projects in the pipeline in West Bengal but were delayed due to various reasons over the years.
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