The much-awaited Periodical Overhauling (POH) workshop at Kazipet is finally becoming a reality.
The State Government’s repeated requests for the workshop, if not the wagon manufacturing facility as assured in the AP Reorganisation Act 2014, will materialise once the foundation stone for the POH is laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.
The issue has been evading a solution for over a decade now since the Central Government first sanctioned the wagon manufacturing facility at Kazipet in 2010-11. The Government had acquired endowment land to an extent of 54.15 acres belonging to Sree Seeta Ramachandra Swamy devasthanam at Madikonda in Hanamkonda mandal. But, the Railway Ministry had subsequently put on hold taking over the land because of its plan to review the need and requirement of new wagon manufacturing units in the country.
