Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Expecting a metamorphosis in Maharashtra’s stand at the Centre’s formidable bullet teach mission with a brand new govt within the state, the Nationwide Prime-Pace Rail Company Restricted (NHSRCL) has written to the state’s leader secretary, urging him to intrude to get to the bottom of long-pending problems stalling the mission.
The letter written by way of former NHSRCL leader Satish Agnihotri on July 7, the day he was once sacked by way of the Railway Board on fees of corruption, highlights the roadblocks for the mission in Maharashtra.
The mission within the state had turn into a non-starter basically because of issues in relation to obtaining govt land and woodland spaces.
With Leader Minister Eknath Shinde being supported by way of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP), officers imagine that the mission will now obtain the rush that it must take off in Maharashtra.
Within the letter, Agnihotri has mentioned some of the essential long-pending problems, which can impact the graduation of the paintings in Maharashtra, is the clearance below the Woodland (Conservation) Act, 1980.
He mentioned whilst the appliance for the clearance, after compliances of prerequisites and the cost of the required fees, was once submitted in March 2021, the problem continues to be pending with the Maharashtra woodland division.
“Your sort intervention is asked in resolving aforesaid problems for offering encumbrance-free land on the earliest and expedite acquisition of last land in Thane and Palghar districts,” Agnihotri mentioned.
He additional mentioned that the Jap were soliciting for for the most likely dates for the graduation of the civil paintings in Maharashtra because the tenders for underground stations on the Bandra Kurla Advanced (BKC) and an undersea tunnel had been cancelled after repeated postponement during the last couple of years.
The letter additionally accommodates an inventory of 16 key places the place the mission is dealing with pendency from the Maharashtra govt because of problems associated with land acquisition, a petroleum pump that must be shifted, diversion of woodland land, the moving of a DC Earthing Station, a rolling inventory depot, the acclaim for tree transplantation or slicing proposals, amongst others.
The growth of land acquisition in Maharashtra for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail mission has moved at a snail’s tempo with 72 in step with cent (313 hectares out of a complete requirement of 434 hectares) of the land wanted for the mission received.
On the other hand, the bodily ownership has most effective been for 39 in step with cent of the land, which is 168 hectares.
Then again, contracts for civil works, stations and observe paintings were awarded for all the mission duration of 352 km in Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the place 99 in step with cent of the land required for the mission has been received.