AGARTALA, March 25 (TIWN): The ongoing work of Agartala-Sabroom railway to be completed by 2018, Minister of State for Railways, Rajen Gohain recently said at Agartala. Promising that the railway to be expanded to Garji by 2017, Gohain said that the rest work till Belonia should be completed by 2018. However, he also promised that the project would be done in faster manner, but so far NFR has done a great job. Minister also acknowledged about the tunnels demand between Udaipur to South Tripura. Due to some hilly parts come in between the 2 Stations from sabroom to Udaipur, the tunnels need to be constructed. However, the whole project till Sabroom will be completed within 2019 and the ‘safety’ issue will be given as the utmost priority. Gohain further said the alternative rail-line was also discussed while talking to the Chief Minister and the Governor; however, fund will be sanctioned for the survey into the project.

Also, as the alternative way via Pecahrthal-Kamalpur-Dharmanagar-Agartala-Udaipur-uptoBelonia, will be brought under special survey to find out whether the routes will be appropriate or not; or there may be better ways into it, said the Minister.

Earlier, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu during the inauguration of the 6th  BG train service in Tripura via video conference from New Delhi said, “Northeast State Tripura will not be deprived of any modern technology, which will help to increase the train speed in this zone”. “Like other states Northeast State Tripura will be equally treated when it comes for service”, said Suresh Prabhu. “We are next planning to increase train speed upto 100 KM per hour”, said Prabhu.

“To equally develop the infrastructure of railway is the wish of PM Modi. He cares extra about NE India. Till day Northeast was neglected by the Central Govt and in case of technology if after distributing the whole country, anything remained so it was given to Northeast, but the scenario have been changed now. Railway, Port-way---in every aspects the connectivity of Northeast will be introduced by modern technology”, said Prabhu.

However, as per RajenGohain, apart from Tripura there are other Northeast states who has separate demands about railway connectivity, but no state will be deprived, assured Gohain.

He further mentioned that a lot of changes has come already in Agartala with the effect of Railway and in coming days more facilities to be felicitate the state.