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No hurdle for rail extension in Tripura
The impasse over land acquisition for the 44 km Agartala-Udaipur railway extension project is over as the land owners have assured the government to sell their lands, official sources said.
Agartala: The impasse over land
acquisition for the 44 km Agartala-Udaipur railway extension
project is over as the land owners have assured the government
to sell their lands, official sources said.
"The state government was facing problems since 2009 for extension of railway tracks from Agartala to Udaipur in Gomati district as landowners declined to sell land according to the price set by North East Frontier Railway, but now they have agreed to receive the payments when government conceded their demands of buying lands as per present market rate," SDM of Bishalgarh, Tamal Majumder said. He said, 75 per cent landowners have received their payments and the rest have agreed to collect the cheques after depositing necessary documents, he said.
NF railway sources said, "The railway extension project would be completed by this year. There were problems of acquiring a patch of land near Harishnagar Tea Estate in Bishalgarh sub-division of Sepahijala district. The problem was solved recently following a meeting between state government officials, local people and local representatives of different political parties and District Magistrate". SDM said the land would be handed over to the North East Frontier Railway (NFR) by March itself so that works could be resumed.
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"The state government was facing problems since 2009 for extension of railway tracks from Agartala to Udaipur in Gomati district as landowners declined to sell land according to the price set by North East Frontier Railway, but now they have agreed to receive the payments when government conceded their demands of buying lands as per present market rate," SDM of Bishalgarh, Tamal Majumder said. He said, 75 per cent landowners have received their payments and the rest have agreed to collect the cheques after depositing necessary documents, he said.
NF railway sources said, "The railway extension project would be completed by this year. There were problems of acquiring a patch of land near Harishnagar Tea Estate in Bishalgarh sub-division of Sepahijala district. The problem was solved recently following a meeting between state government officials, local people and local representatives of different political parties and District Magistrate". SDM said the land would be handed over to the North East Frontier Railway (NFR) by March itself so that works could be resumed.
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