Bhubaneswar: The Indian train has gave sanctions at the Loco Overhauling Workshop on Electric Electric (POH) in Narla in the East Indonesia Regency in the 2017-18 budget with an estimated cost of RS 186.37 Crore.
But the construction work of this project has not started.
The train only received 141.07 hectares of 328.35 hectares of land needed so far.
In 2016, the train had faced the extent criticism and protests of the countries to shift the proposed carts’ maintenance workshop in the Sea of ​​Ladies to Visakhapatnam from Andhra Pradesh.
It has invited a sharp political reaction from all parties.
Even the Chairman of the Naveen Patnaik Minister has taken a problem with the train minister to provide an alternative project in Kalangandi.
Then the center has sanctioned the Loco Poh Electric Workshop in the 2017 Union budget.
This is a maintenance workshop for electric machines.
It has provided sanctions for the number of tokens in 2017 for the beginning of the project.
Four years have passed, but project construction work cannot start.
The Minister of Railway Railway Ashwini Vaishnaw, answering the MP’s question by Basanta Kumar Panda to Lok Sabha on Wednesday that this project would make progress after the land was completed.
“Of the 328.35 hectares of land needed to arrange workshops and train connectivity, the state government of Odisha has submitted 141.07 hectares of land in four patches to the train,” he added.
The number of Rs 3.28 Crore has been allocated for the project to a budget of 2021-22, a reply to the UNI Minister.
A senior officer of the Ministry of Commerce and Transportation, said construction would take at least two to four years and the train had to start construction immediately after getting a large patch of land (141 hectares) for all factory sites at the cost of the state government.
He said the train had asked the land to connect the Narla station with a workshop.
“For this connectivity section, the state government has agreed to give the land for free.
But because of asking for most of the forest land, the legal procedure will be followed for forest transfer and other works according to the rules.
It will take time.
The train is not must wait for the connectivity so that it can occur later and match the progress time of the factory site, “he added.