Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast region and Telangana BJP president G. Kishan Reddy announced that the Centre had cleared new railway lines to connect all the 33 districts of Telangana and augment the existing network at an estimated cost of ₹83,543 crore for 5,239 km.
“Despite non-cooperation, indifference and neglect shown by the State government towards developing public transport and providing land for the projects, which had stalled work across 700 km of railway lines last year alone, the Narendra Modi government has decided to go ahead with the projects bearing all the costs to benefit Telangana,” he said at a press conference on Sunday.
The Minister said that urban areas of more than one lakh population, pilgrim centres, mines, cement plants and Assembly constituencies were going to be connected under the 30 projects cleared by the Centre, with 15 being new lines and 15 others either doubling (eight), tripling (three) or quadrupling (four) of the existing lines, including ongoing works.
