Centre sanctions ₹5,000 cr for rail corridor in NE

The Central government has announced an investment of over ₹5,000 crore to construct a 12-km-long elevated railway corridor in the midst of Guwahati, Chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO) of North-East Frontier Railway (NFR), Pranav Jyoti Sharma said that the railway is currently undertaking the final location survey which started 2 months back and will be completed soon and a tender will be floated for execution of the work. The survey will provide exact calculations about what should be the height, breadth, and alignments of the elevated sections of the railway tracks. Consequently, all the level crossings in Guwahati will be eliminated with the elevated railway track running from New Guwahati station to Kamakhya Station. Train Vehicular Unit (TVUs) of all the city railway level crossings suggest that the crossings have, since long, required road over-bridges/underpasses to eliminate traffic congestion. As a matter of fact, such over bridges require 50% investment from the state government but in this case, the elevated tracks will be completely funded by the railways and the state government will not have to spend anything, he added.