Jena, who has come to visit to different ongoing projects in the State
and review the work progress, said that the Rail Vikash Nigam Ltd was
undertaking the survey for doubling of the Banspani-Jakhapura rail
line. Jakhapura-Haridaspur third line has also been given to RVNL for
survey.
About the proposed world-class station at Bhubaneswar, Jena said
construction of 25 world-class stations had been planned in the
country on Public Private Partnership scheme.
An expression of interest is being floated to the State government for
its acceptance and involvement. The Chinese Railway authorities will
prepare the master plan while the stations will be built up PPP mode,
Jena informed.
Regarding Khurda-Bolangir railway link, Jena said more funds had given
to this project in the recent budget. There is no question of stoppage
of this project.
Speaking on the proposed Puri-Konark rail line, Jena said this line
would be constructed if the State government provided free land for
the purpose.
About the performance of Indian Railways, Jena said that Indian
Railways had achieved spectacular progress by achieving a cash surplus
of Rs 25,000 crore.
He said the operating ratio had also improved to 76.03 that were
better than any railway of the world. Despite all the prevailing
problems, Indian Railways has achieved improvement in freight loading
by over 60 million tonnes, Jena said.
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