West Bengal’s railway projects on schedule: Mukul Roy
May 25th, 2011 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Railway projects in West Bengal launched over the past three years were being implemented smoothly and would be completed in time, Minister of State for Railways Mukul Roy said here Wednesday.
The projects were launched by Mamata Banerjee during her tenure as railway minister. Now she is the chief minister of West Bengal, having uprooted the Left Front government in a historic assembly poll after 34 years of uninterrupted rule.
“I held a meeting today (Wednesday) with the general managers of three divisional railways in the state - Eastern, South Eastern and Metro - and senior railway officials to take a stock of the ongoing projects across the state,” said Roy.
Roy, who is central minister of state for shipping, has been given the additional charge of railway after the Trinamool Congress supremo May 19 resigned before taking over as the state’s chief minister.
Roy said: “All the projects announced by Mamata Banerjee as railway minister in her railway budgets in 2008-09, 2009-2010 and 2010-11 financial years are being successfully implemented. All the projects will be completed well before time.”
Banerjee had announced at least 16 major manufacturing units across the state besides several other projects like museums, training centres, nursing schools, hospitals, renovation and upgradation of railway stations, construction of new railway routes and gauge conversation of existing railway lines.
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