By IANS,
Raipur : A working group set up last week in Chhattisgarh to prepare a report about a Rs. 40,000 crore industrial rail corridor project has finalised its report, top official sources said Tuesday.
The group members, mostly top officers of the Chhattisgarh government, gave final shape to the project report at their meeting held Monday at the state secretariat.
“The meet presided over by Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar is all set to submit its report to Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday. He will pass it on to the central government this week itself,” one of the members of the group told IANS.
The state government formed the group Feb 8 on the advice of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi who largely agreed to the Rs. 40,000 crore industrial rail corridor project for the state after he held a detailed meeting here with Raman Singh.
The project will cover mainly the vast, coal-rich terrain of the state’s northern part where an estimated 20 percent of India’s coal reserves are located.
The group members agreed that the project would directly benefit the massive tribal belt of the state as well as several private and public companies.
The group includes Chhattisgarh’s Energy secretary Aman Singh, Home Secretary N.K. Aswal, Chhattisgarh chief minister’s special secretary Subosh Singh and Arunendra Kumar, general manager of India’s most profit making rail zone, South East Central Railway (SECR),
The members stated at the meeting that the project would accelerate the pace of dwevelopment and bring in prosperity in the coal abundant areas that have been left out of mainstream progress for a long period of time.