RTI Reveals
Government Shelves Jammu_Poonch Railway Line Project, Railway
Board terms It ‘Financially Unviable’
Jammu, 17/March/2022: Government
of India has shelved the prestigious Jammu Poonch Railway Line project for
which the final survey report was submitted in year 2018 with an estimated cost
of rupees 22,771 crore for laying Broad Gauge (BG) rail line connecting Jammu with
border district Poonch via Rajouri.
The information in this
regard has been shared by Ministry of Railways Government of India in response
to two different Right to Information applications by a Jammu based information
seeker Raman Sharma.
In response to the RTI pleas of the
applicant, Railway Board vide its Letters
dated 07-March-2022 and 15 March 2022, signed
by Pankaj Kumar, Director Projects and Central Public Information of Railway Board
has stated that the Survey for new railway line between Jammu to Poonch having
length of 223 K.M was completed in 2017-18 but the project could not be taken
forward being ‘ financially unviable’. The signed reply by the CPIO further states that the survey has been
shelved with the approval of the Railway board.
While responding to another
query of the applicant regarding any
other proposal as on date pending with
the ministry of Railways for providing and Laying Rail Line between Jammu to
Poonch, the Railway Board officer replied in negative and stated that presently
there is no proposal under consideration for this line.
It is pertinent to mention
here that Connecting border districts of Rajouri and Poonch with Jammu has been
a decades old pending demand of social and political organization of these
border districts.
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