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<!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo--> <b>Rlys works overtime on Rs 60-cr link: Lalu village with Rabri’s </b>
Raghvendra RaoPosted online: Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 0000 hrs

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 16:While scores of railway projects wait to take off, work on the 20.9-km stretch between Hathua and Bathua Bazar on the Hathua-Bhatni section of North Eastern Railway is moving at a breakneck pace.

The line from Hathua will touch Lain Bazar, Salar Khurd, and Phulwaria before reaching Bathua Bazar, and all these places in Gopalganj district will have new railway stations. Salar Khurd will serve as the station for Rabri’s Salar Kalan.

Rabri is learnt to have requested Yadav to get both their villages connected by rail some time back.

Rs 230 crore has been earmarked for the 79.64-km Hathua-Bhatni link, announced in this year’s Railway budget. The 20.9-km stretch between Hathua and Bathua Bazar will have three major and 10 minor bridges and is estimated to cost around Rs 60 crore.

Railway officials maintain that, although the “two-village link” suggestion has influenced work on the stretch, the project is not unjustified. “The area between Hathua and Bathua Bazar is heavily populated and there had been demands in the past to lay a railway line,” said a North Eastern Railway official.

With a deadline set for December, North Eastern Railway officials are racing against time. The minister is learnt to have expressed his desire to inaugurate the line on Durga Pooja.

Officials said work on embankments, level-crossings and bridges was “at an advanced stage” and was being carried out on a “war footing.”

“Laying the tracks can be completed in 15 days and will be done as soon as all the rest of the works are completed,” said an official.
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