PM Modi virtually inaugurates redeveloped 138-year-old railway station in Assam

Guwahati, May 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Thursday virtually inaugurated the redeveloped 138-year-old Haibargaon railway presumption successful cardinal Assam’s Nagaon territory arsenic portion of a nationalist programme involving the inauguration of 103 redeveloped railway stations successful 86 districts crossed the country.

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) officials said that Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita, Assam Revenue Minister Keshab Mahanta and different important personalities were contiguous astatine the inaugural function.

Under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS), the 103 stations, redeveloped astatine a outgo of astir Rs 1,100 crore, are located successful 86 districts and see large and insignificant stations crossed Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of the NFR Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said Haibargaon presumption successful cardinal Assam’s Nagaon becomes the archetypal railway presumption successful the northeastern authorities among 50 stations identified successful the authorities for redevelopment nether the ABSS.

“Thursday was beryllium a momentous juncture for the authorities of Assam and the northeast region. This lawsuit stands retired arsenic a landmark successful the nationalist rollout of the ABSS arsenic Haibargaon is the archetypal redeveloped railway presumption retired of 50 stations identified successful Assam, to beryllium inaugurated nether this ambitious scheme,” the CPRO said.

The Haibargaon, primitively built successful 1887, was reconstructed astatine a task outgo of astir Rs 15.85 crore, signalling the opening of a caller section for obstruction infrastructure successful the region.

The redevelopment of Haibargaon presumption is symbolic not lone of technological and architectural upliftment but besides of the government’s intent to bring the northeast portion of India into the fold of accelerated nationalist development, helium pointed out.

Sharma said that the enactment of Haibargaon arsenic the archetypal presumption to beryllium inaugurated nether ABSS successful Assam reflects its strategical value and the palmy execution of the task with a wide imaginativeness for passenger-centric modernisation.

With its upgraded amenities, improved accessibility and taste aesthetics, the presumption sets a benchmark for the 49 different stations successful Assam lined up for redevelopment, helium said.

The CPRO said that arsenic the Prime Minister inaugurated this gateway to a modern obstruction experience, Haibargaon emerged not conscionable arsenic a presumption but arsenic a awesome of progress, pridefulness and committedness for the radical of Assam and the northeast region.

Source: IANS