Mar 29, 2025 10:31 PM IST
The venture was sanctioned on a 50:50 cost-sharing between state authorities and the Union railways ministry
Himachal Pradesh authorities is but to deposit ₹178.95 crore for 33-km Chandigarh-Baddi rail hyperlink venture, Union railways minister knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha in a written reply on Friday.
The ministry shared the data whereas responding to a query raised by Bharatiya Janata Celebration MP Indu Bala Goswami relating to proportion of the price to be shared by the Centre and the state authorities for the Chandigarh-Baddi railway line. (HT File)
The ministry shared the data whereas responding to a query raised by Bharatiya Janata Celebration MP Indu Bala Goswami relating to proportion of the price to be shared by the Centre and the state authorities for the Chandigarh-Baddi railway line.
The ₹1,540-crore rail hyperlink, anticipated to be accomplished by June 2025, will join Chandigarh to Baddi, an industrial hub in Himachal’s Solan district.
The venture was sanctioned on a 50:50 cost-sharing between state authorities and the Union railways ministry. The state authorities was to deposit ₹483.95 crore and as per info obtainable, it has solely paid ₹305 crore up to now.
“The Union government is geared up to execute projects but the success depends on the support of Himachal government of,” stated the railways ministry in its reply. The ministry added that an expenditure of ₹967.9 crore was incurred until February 2025. “The Chandigarh–Baddi rail line passes through the Chandimandir station and the work of augmentation in number of lines at Chandimandir station from three lines to five lines has been taken up,” the reply added, delving into the provisions made for laying a separate loop line at Chandimandir for trains going from Chandigarh to Baddi-Barotiwala, industrial hub. The Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial belt is the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturing hub in Asia.
Not less than seven lakh individuals employed with medical models have been ready for the railway venture for the reason that industries began establishing right here within the early 2000s. The hub homes round 350 cosmetics and drug formulation models which have an estimated annual turnover of ₹30,000 crore.
Sanctioned in 2007-08, the rail hyperlink had run into land acquisition troubles and railways on June 20, 2019, accorded it standing of ‘Special Railway Project’ beneath the Railway Act, 2008.
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