New Delhi: Railway
plans to complete 273 kilometres of new lines including
Chandigarh-Morinda-Ludhiana, Kakinada-Kotipalli and
Hassan-Bangalore.
Presenting
the rail Budget in the Lok Sabha, railway minister Laloo
Prasad Yadav today said that apart from nine new lines,
the railways would complete 17 guage conversion projects
involving 1,000 kilometres during this fiscal.
The
guage conversion projects included Mansi-Saharsa, Bankura-Sonamukhi,
Madurai-Manamadurai, Ranchi-Lohargada and Udaipur-Chittaugarh.
The
railways also propose to complete doubling of 381 kms
of lines in the current year as against 206 kms finished
in 2003-04.
The
doubling of lines includes completion of Jalandhar-Jammu
Tawi line.
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