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Telangana parties slam railway budget
Hyderabad: Telangana Parties Slam Railway Budget, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday slammed the railway budget saying BJP-led government has done injustice to the newly-created State.
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Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday slammed the railway budget saying BJP-led government has done injustice to the newly-created State.
KCR said not a single new project was announced for the State in the budget presented by D V Sadananda Gouda. He said there were no proposals for modernisation of Secunderabad railway station and for making Kazipet a new railway division.
“Funds have not been allocated for the projects for which surveys were already done,” KCR said in a statement. He lamented that there was no mention of coach factory in Kazipet. The factory was announced in 2010-11 budget.
“Rs 20 crore allocated for second phase of Multi-Modal Transit System (MMTS) in Hyderabad is not sufficient. Like the previous Congress governments, the BJP government has also done injustice to Telangana,” he added.
Expressing their displeasure over the railway budget, opposition parties said that there was not much of difference between the vote on account budget of UPA and this one. TCPI-M state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram welcomed the idea of Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in infrastructure development activities like port connectivity. He also welcomed the programme of Diamond Quadrilateral Network in the railway sector.
The BJP national vice-president Bandaru Dattatreya appreciated the initiative to improve track and start high speed trains. Lok Satta national president Jayaprakash Narayan said “genuine” effort was showed by Railway Minister in his budget to “end the era of reckless populism and lay the foundation for improved traffic infrastructure.”
Welcoming the Minister's initiative to improve tracks and start high speed trains, Narayan maintained bullet trains would be expensive and unviable unless traffic density was very high and passengers were willing to pay steep fares. Against such a backdrop, it is pleasing to note that the Railway Minister was ready to pursue low-cost options after a survey by the Japanese, he said.
