New
Delhi: On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off passenger train
services to Mizoram and Manipur on the newly-laid broad gauge line, and
Kamakhya-Vaishno Devi Katra weekly train, a railway official said on Thursday.
Northeast
Frontier Railway (NFR) chief public relations officer Pranav Jyoti Sharma said,
“The Prime Minister, accompanied by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, will use
the remote control from Shillong to flag off the passenger train services to
Mizoram and Manipur, and the Kamakhya-Vaishno Devi Katra weekly train.” “The
Kamakhya-Vaishno Devi Katra weekly train was announced in the Railway Budget
2014-15,” he added.
“The prime minister would also attend the
65th Plenary session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) in Shillong on Friday.
He will flag off the train services in the afternoon,” an NFR official
said.
The metre gauge to broad gauge conversion
projects of Silchar-Jiribam (52 km) rail tracks in Manipur and Silchar-Bhairabi
(120 km) tracks in Mizoram were part of the Lumding-Silchar and
Badarpur-Agartala gauge conversion projects. The 437-km Lumding-Silchar and
Badarpur-Agartala gauge conversion works were sanctioned in 1996 and completed
earlier this year.
Another NFR official told IANS that the Prime
Minister was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the Agartala-Akhaura
(Bangladesh) railway project and flag off regular passenger train service from
Agartala to Sealdah, and Agartala to Silchar on the newly-laid broad gauge
line. But these events would be held in June in Agartala.
The Rs 968-crore Agartala-Akhaura (5 km on
the Indian side and 10 km on Bangladesh) railway project was finalized in
January 2010 when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met the then prime
minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.
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