Sivok-Rangpo Railway Line Project: Indian Railways to attach Sikkim with the remainder of the nation! The work on the Sivok – Rangpo railway line venture is progressing at full throttle, in line with the Railway Ministry. Once the venture is accomplished, it’ll synergize new avenues of prosperity within the area. The complete size of the Sivok – Rangpo rail line venture is 44.96 kilometres. It would come with 14 tunnels, with the longest tunnel of 5.27 kilometres and the smallest tunnel of 538 metres. According to the Railway Ministry, almost, 45 per cent of the overall mining has been accomplished. The Sivok – Rangpo railway line will embrace 5 railway stations, Sivok, Riyang, Melli, Rangpo, and Teesta Bazaar stations.
In September 2020, former Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, in a written reply to a query in Lok Sabha, had mentioned the Sivok – Rangpo new line venture was included within the Budget of 2008-09. The line’s 41.55 km size falls within the state of West Bengal and three.41 km falls in Sikkim. The newest anticipated venture price is Rs 4085 crore, he mentioned. An expenditure of Rs 682 crore was incurred as much as the month of March 2020 and an outlay of Rs 607 crore was offered for the monetary yr 2020-21, Goyal had beforehand said.
Meanwhile, the Railway Ministry has additionally knowledgeable that Under Mission Raftaar, work is in progress on the 273 km third line between Mathura – Jhansi part. Once the venture is accomplished, practice companies will scale at a pace of greater than 150 km per hour on this route, the Railway Ministry mentioned lately. The Railway Board had sanctioned the development work of the third line between Mathura and Jhansi vide merchandise quantity 15 of 2015-16 pink guide. The complete sanctioned price of the third line of the Mathura – Jhansi part venture was Rs 3677.76 crore. In December 2015, the development work on the third line of the Mathura – Jhansi part was transferred to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a PSU below the Ministry of Railways.
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