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Signature campaign demands early completion of BG project
A Correspondent Assam Tribune
NILAMBAZAR, Jan 30 – Communication is the main problem of Barak valley and its surrounding States. The only route that connects Barak Valley is the road through Meghalaya. But this route is also not reliable because most of the times it is closed due to landslide. The metergauge railwayline is always undependable. The Railway ministry too said the broad gauge line will be operational from 2009. However, the progress of the work shows that it is totally impossible. For this reason, the All India Democratic Woman Forum, Karimganj district committee launched a signature campaign here recently for immediate completion of the broad gauge line The woman forum has collected one lakh signatures.
The BG project was initiated way back in 1983. But the initial project was cancelled due to some technicalities. But later on the NF railways came forward with their own proposition to convert the existing metergauge track into BG without detailing the technicalities involved in this project.
But realising the surface communication difficulties of Barak Valley, Tripura and Mizoram as well as Manipur, the then Railway minister Ram Vilas Paswan, laid the foundation stone of Silchar-Lumding BG line in 1997. The present Railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav declared it as a national project and said that it would be completed by 2009. But way construction is going on questions are being raised about the very fate of this railway track.
The campaign also discussed that this railway line is the life line of supply of not only Barak Valley but also Tripura and Mizoram. The two most important bridges to be built on Barak and Jatinga are yet to come up. All that has been done is in respect of earth filling only and no significant progress is visible.
The militancy related problem has no doubt created serious threat perception which has already taken lives of engineers and workers at different locations. This problem can be trackled as is being done in Tripura and Kashmir where there is significant progress of work on the BG track. Tripura government has already completed the BG project up to Kumarghat.
The All India Democratic Woman Forum has also discussed the signature campaign regarding the rail service from Karimganj to Kolkata via Bangladesh. The forum has demanded immediate start of the railway service on this route. The organisation is going to submit a memorandum before the Prime Minister of India with one lakh signatures demanding the immediate implementation of these two remarkable railway projects out of six. CPI, CP(I) M and BJP have also organised several agitational programme for demanding the same.
Body formed
NILAMBAZAR, Jan 30 – Barak Uptaka Banga Sahitya and Sanskritik Sammelan Kaliganj–Bagbari Anchalik Samiti was formed with Joydeep Paul and Debasish Das as president and secretary respectively. In this connection a general meeting was held at Bagbari, which selected Bishnupada Bhattacharjee as vice- president, Bivash Bardhan, editor of Little magazine, Banojit Dey as treasurer and Shilpi Bhattacharjee as a cultural secretary.
Signature campaign demands early completion of BG project
A Correspondent Assam Tribune
NILAMBAZAR, Jan 30 – Communication is the main problem of Barak valley and its surrounding States. The only route that connects Barak Valley is the road through Meghalaya. But this route is also not reliable because most of the times it is closed due to landslide. The metergauge railwayline is always undependable. The Railway ministry too said the broad gauge line will be operational from 2009. However, the progress of the work shows that it is totally impossible. For this reason, the All India Democratic Woman Forum, Karimganj district committee launched a signature campaign here recently for immediate completion of the broad gauge line The woman forum has collected one lakh signatures.
The BG project was initiated way back in 1983. But the initial project was cancelled due to some technicalities. But later on the NF railways came forward with their own proposition to convert the existing metergauge track into BG without detailing the technicalities involved in this project.
But realising the surface communication difficulties of Barak Valley, Tripura and Mizoram as well as Manipur, the then Railway minister Ram Vilas Paswan, laid the foundation stone of Silchar-Lumding BG line in 1997. The present Railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav declared it as a national project and said that it would be completed by 2009. But way construction is going on questions are being raised about the very fate of this railway track.
The campaign also discussed that this railway line is the life line of supply of not only Barak Valley but also Tripura and Mizoram. The two most important bridges to be built on Barak and Jatinga are yet to come up. All that has been done is in respect of earth filling only and no significant progress is visible.
The militancy related problem has no doubt created serious threat perception which has already taken lives of engineers and workers at different locations. This problem can be trackled as is being done in Tripura and Kashmir where there is significant progress of work on the BG track. Tripura government has already completed the BG project up to Kumarghat.
The All India Democratic Woman Forum has also discussed the signature campaign regarding the rail service from Karimganj to Kolkata via Bangladesh. The forum has demanded immediate start of the railway service on this route. The organisation is going to submit a memorandum before the Prime Minister of India with one lakh signatures demanding the immediate implementation of these two remarkable railway projects out of six. CPI, CP(I) M and BJP have also organised several agitational programme for demanding the same.
Body formed
NILAMBAZAR, Jan 30 – Barak Uptaka Banga Sahitya and Sanskritik Sammelan Kaliganj–Bagbari Anchalik Samiti was formed with Joydeep Paul and Debasish Das as president and secretary respectively. In this connection a general meeting was held at Bagbari, which selected Bishnupada Bhattacharjee as vice- president, Bivash Bardhan, editor of Little magazine, Banojit Dey as treasurer and Shilpi Bhattacharjee as a cultural secretary.
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