Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee is playing Santa for West Bengal in the Christmas season.
After an auto hub, cold storage and an in-principle approval for a coach factory, it’s now time for supplementary demand for grants for railway infrastructure projects based in the state.
Supplementary demand of grants is sought for meeting additional requirement for certain projects and for taking out of turn work.
Of the total 50 railway projects for which supplementary demand has been sought, 17 projects, worth Rs 27,698 crore, are in West Bengal.
The two mega projects in which the Railways has pitched for demand of grants are the Rs 12,000 crore ancillary unit for diesel locomotives and the Rs 15,000 crore ancillary unit for electric locomotives to be set up in Dankuni.
The total supplementary demand for grants sought by Railways is worth Rs 731 crore. As per the document on grants tabled in the parliament, the production targets of Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) in Varanasi have been increased. “DLW is required to produce at least 250 locomotives per annum, against a capacity of 200 per annum.
An ancillary unit at Dankuni for assisting DLW is being set up. The outlay for the project for 2009-10 is Rs 1 lakh.
Similar is the case of an ancillary unit to be set up to support the Chittaranjan Locomotive unit. With its capacity also being jacked up to 250 locomotives from 200, Railways has proposed to set up a unit to provide car bodies and other equipment to the facility.
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