AP govt’s apathy pushed up rly project costs: BJP

BJP State official spokesperson Lanka Dinakar has alleged that the AP government’s indifference has badly affected the railway projects in the state and expenditure is spiralling steeply.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Lanka Dinakar said that railway minister Rao Inderjit Singh announced in the Parliament that the railway projects expenditure had gone up in AP by 42% due to the lackadaisical attitude of the AP government in providing
needed infrastructure and releasing its share.
“Due to the nonchalant attitude of the AP state government in providing infrastructure and extending needed cooperation to the railways, the expenditure of 30 railway projects in the state has gone up by Rs 58,000 crore. The railway has to bear the additional expenditure due to the AP government’s indifference”, Lanka Dinakar slammed.
The expenditure of Rs 2,289 crore for Nadikudi Srikalahasti railway workers with a length of 309 km has spiralled since the state government did not bear its 50% project expenditure. The Rs 2,120 crore Kotipalli Narsapur new railway line project of 57 km was sanctioned in 2000-2001 in which the Centre should bear 75 per cent and the AP government should bear 25 percent of the expenditure but the AP government is not releasing its share resulting in the project is snail phasing now, Dinakar lamented. The AP government is not transferring the required land for the establishment of the South Coast
railway zone at Mudaravalas in Visakhapatnam district, he lashes out.