Qadian, India: Railways Survey Team in Gurdaspur

iLaying of the 40-km railway track between Qadian and Beas would shorten the distance  between Batala and Amritsar by 40 km and offer benefit  of at least Rs 40 crore a year to Batala industrialists and foundry owners.

Qadian train station

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Int'l Desk
Source & Credit: Punjab News | Qadian
By Hundustan Times | June 4, 2010

GURDASPUR: A Five-member team of top Railway Officials, on Thursday, visited Qadian and Beas towns to access the economic viability of the proposed Qadian –Beas rail link.

The team comprised Chief Commercial manager Col Buta Singh, Chief Engineer, Survey, R.K.Sarkar, Deputy Chief Engineer, Survey, V.S.Chaudhary, Chief Technical Inspectors Ashok Kumar and Arun Kumar. Congress MP Partap Singh accompanied the team.

Later, speaking with the media, Bajwa said it was at his initiative that the Qadian-Beas rail link was included on the list of 114 socially desired projects sanctioned in the budget for the new fiscal. These projects would cost the government Rs 55,000 crore.


For the time being, all machinery produced at Batala was being transported through kolkata to Bangladesh by trucks and ships. Once the Qadian-Beas rail link project comes about, industrialists and traders would have the rail options for transporting these goods, which will bring down costs, said Bajwa.

The Congress party leader said that at present, about one million tones of pig iron, fertilizers, food-grains and coal etc., are transported by trucks to Batala, Dhariwal and Gurdaspur.

Laying of the 40-km railway track between Qadian and Beas would shorten the distance  between Batala and Amritsar by 40 km and offer benefit  of at least Rs 40 crore a year to Batala industrialists and foundry owners, he further said.

He said that the local industrialists, foundary owners and traders would also be able to avail the benefits of the Dedicated Freight Corridors to be opened in Kolkata.

Bajwa said the visiting committee would submit its survey report to the railway authorities, who would forward it to the National Planning Commission. The project, if it materializes, will take development to an all-new level in the district, said the MP.

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