Jaya
Jagannath,
Our country may be the only exceptionally unique nation
in the world, where any regional party conditionally black mails a
political party on the name of a mere fractional support to form
Government and condition is in return be crowned with strategically
most precious ministry in their kingdom. Results are obvious. Only
the parent state from where this regional party belongs to enjoys
the best benefits from that ministry and the rest of the country
suffers. This defines India. To persuade vote bank for the next
Bengal Polls, In a clear Bengal centric railway budget Mamta
Banerjee too left no mercy in showing her step motherhood attitude
towards Orissa. Railways earns from pockets of all Indians and
should be distributed back equally for the benefit of all of them,
but that does happen only in Ramarajya.
What is Lost :
• Purposefully all proposed ports and
industrial areas of Orissa have been kept far away from any rail
connectivity. A rapidly industrializing Orissa that needs rail as
essential supply lines to cater to her economy belt, a state that
generates more than 6000 crores of early revenue with average per
kilometer earning more than twice that of the national average,
Orissa was thrown with a just a piece of bread from a Rs.41,426
crore budget in return.
• Industry centric highest economic
and potent revenue prone routes such as Khurda Road-Balangir,
Talcher-Bimalagarh, Lanjigarh- Junagarh, Gopalpur-Rayagada,
Badampahad-Keonjhar, Bhadrak-Dhamra,
Haridaspur-Paradip-Bangiriposhi-Gorumahisani and Talcher-Sukinda
railway line projects have again been deliberately ignored.
• Only one new line has been announced
for the State, against the demand for 13 new lines.
• No action has been taken on setting
up two world-class stations, seven adarsh stations, two
multi-functional complexes and medical college in the State which
were promised in the last budget.
• Against a Demand of Rs 1,805 crore,
the allocation has been Rs 836.64 crore with Just nine trains have
been extended to Orissa as against the demand for 20 new trains.
What we got :
• New lines: Puri-Konark,
Nabarangpur-Jeypore, Gunpur-Theruballi, Phulbani-Berhampur,
Raipur-Jharsuguda. Jeypore-Malkangiri.
• Survey for new lines:
Talcher-Phulbani-Lanjigarh, Junagarh-Jeypore-Malkangiri-Bhadrachal.
• Instead of new trains, cleverly
existing trains were only extended to Orissa : Kolkata, Mumbai,
Guwahati and Ahmedabad. Puri-Howrah Duranto Express,
Ahmedabad-Puri-Kolkata- Varanasi-Ujjain-Ahmedabad (Bharat Tirtha
train), Bhubaneswar-Pune weekly express, Sambalpur- Howrah weekly
express, Baripada- Shalimar Express (tri-weekly), Puri-Valsad weekly
express via-Katni-Bhopal-Vadodara, Puri-Digha weekly express,
Bhubaneswar- Khurda Road passenger, Naupada- Gunupur passenger
(after gauge conversion) ,
• Multi-Disciplinary Training Centre
at Cuttack
• Wagon manufacturing factory or
Kalahandi.
To please Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, Mamata announced water bottling
plant for Amethi and a rail coach factory for Rai Bareli. Nice to
see that theories of Charles Darwin also reflect in great Indian
Politics too. With a hope that one day will come when there will a
revolutionary evolution of unbiased honesty driven governance. Jaya
Jagannath.
Regards
Team
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