Source/Credit: Indian Express | News
By Express news service | December 14, 2011
The Centre has finally met a long pending demand by including the Qadian-Beas New Line (39.68 km) in the supplementary demand for grants for railways that was introduced on Tuesday during the ongoing winter session of Parliament. An estimate cost of Rs 205 crore has been proposed with the work scheduled to start immediately.
The project was first sanctioned in the pre-independence era during 1928-29 but Partition ensured that it never saw the light of day for over eight decades.
The track, which was the brainchild of pre-Partition Qadian leader Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, would finally see the light of day.
While Qadian is the international headquarters of Jamait-e-Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, Beas is the headquarters of the Radhasoami sect.
At present, Qadian and Beas are connected through a 100-km long circuitous rail route via Amritsar and Batala.
“The Qadian to Beas rail link will provide a direct and shorter route reducing the travel time between the two places separated only by 39 kms. The extension of the railway line from Qadian to Beas, connects the region directly to the main Amritsar - Delhi line and will add greatly to the economic and social development of the area,” MP from Gurdaspur, Pratap Singh Bajwa said.
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