Railway Minister slashes Rs. 60 crore from budgetary allocation

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Rourkela: The state again got a step-motherly treatment from the Union Railway Minister as it has slashed Rs. 60 crore in the budgetary allocation for 2012-13 for railway projects in the state. It has already pruned Rs. 220 crore in two phases in July and September this year.

The ministry has cut Rs. 15 crore for the long-delayed Khurda Road-Bolangir rail link and the same amount has been decreased in the allocation for Talcher-Bimlagarh rail line while Sambalpur-Talcher doubling project has got an allocation with a slash of Rs. 30 crore.

Earlier in the current fiscal, the Central government had made a budgetary provision for the Khurda Road-Bolangir rail link by cutting about Rs. 42 crore. Allocation for Talcher-Bimlagarh line and Sambalpur-Talcher doubling project were reduced by Rs. 32 crore and Rs. 44 crore respectively.

In September, the Railways Ministry had cut Rs. 34 crore from the budgetary allocation for the state. In June, the ministry had also slashed Rs. 186 crore from the budgetary allocation of Rs. 723 crore for 2012-13.

Expressing displeasure over the frequent cuts from the allocated budget, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had written to the Railway Minister in October this year.

Meanwhile, the ruling BJD, in protest against the frequent cuts from the budgetary allocations for state railway projects, has decided to take the matter of Central negligence with the people in days to come. 

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