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Wadala-Kurla rail line on hold due to delayed rehabilitation of people
Wadala-Kurla rail line on hold due to delayed rehabilitation of people
Mumbai: The Wadala-Kurla rail line, a Prime Minister’s Office monitored project costing Rs.175 crore has been delayed as vegetable and fish vendors who reside close to the tracks await rehabilitation.
The project is expected to speed up services by separating the goods line, coming from the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), from the suburban rail line. The project is also expected to benefit lakhs of people travelling on the CST-Panvel and CST-Andheri Harbour line every day.
The goods line, coming from MbPT, is almost eight tracks wide and covered with grass. The line joins the suburban Harbour line (which goes to both Panvel and Andheri) between Wadala and Kurla before deviating towards the Central line, and proceeding towards Kalyan.
“We have been promised that rehabilitation will be completed by December this year,” said an official from MbPT. Most of those who require rehabilitation reside near Raoli junction, after Wadala, where they have encroached on 425 sqm of land owned by the MbPT. Slum dwellers also reside on the two hectares of property owned by the Railways along the stretch of land required for the project. Until now around 90 PAP have been rehabilitated since May this year.
