RailEnquiry

HAZARIBAG: Construction work on the 79-km-long Koderma-Hazaribag phase railway project resumed after a gap of six months following the intervention of the district administration. The work was held up due to protest by villagers of Paharpur and Padma, said Priti Sinha, BDO cum CO of Padma Block in Hazaribag district.East Central Railways office here said the villagers were not allowing the laying of railway tracks claiming that the road on which the railway line was being laid was being used by them to go to Padma. They said they would not allow the construction to continue unless an overbridge was built.At the behest of Hazaribag MP Yashwant Sinha, a meeting was held between the villagers, BDO and executive engineer of the East Central Railway in which it was found that the demands of the villagers were genuine.The revenue map confirmed that the area taken by the railways was an old road.The BDO then informed the DC that steps should be taken by the railways for sanctioning the construction of an over bridge which was agreed upon by the executive engineer who assured the villagers and the district administration that he would produce the letter for constructing the bridge within a fortnight.