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MP dubs NF Rly as 'NE Forgotten Railways'
Assam Tribune | PTI | New Delhi, May 13
Lamenting poor train services in the region, MPs describing the North East Frontier Railways, as the ‘North East Forgotten Railways’ called for better connectivity and expeditious completion of pending national projects.
Participating in the discussion on the Railway Appropriation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, Pankaj Bora said: “ours is not the ‘North-East Frontier Railways’, but ‘The North-East Forgotten Railways’!
Pointing out that 95 per cent of the railway lines belonging to Assam were constructed during the British regime, Baishya said that even after 64 years of Independence there is not a single electric railway line in Assam. Most of the capital cities in the Northeastern States are not connected by the Railways, Baishya said.
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