Amit Shah inaugurates/performs khat mahurat of Rs 33 crore projects of AMC, Railway

Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah participated in a tree plantation program at Gota today, kick starting the government’s Mission Million Tree initiative. After that he inaugurated several facilities for the welfare of passengers at the Chandlodiya Railway Station B-Division. Later, he also inaugurated the underbridges as part of the government’s efforts to make this area completely free of railway crossings.

Shah inaugurated ladies, gents and air-conditioned waiting rooms that have been developed at a cost of Rs 2 crore by the Western Railway at the Sabarmati Railway Station. He also dedicated a 6 meter wide foot overbridge at the Ahmedabad-end of the Sabarmati Railway Station built at a cost of Rs 4 crore. Later, he also laid the foundation stone for Rs 18 crore worth of four under bridges on the Sabarmati-Khodiyar line.

Shah also informed that earlier people from Chandlodiya had to go to either Sabarmati or Kalupur to book railway tickets. However, a new railway ticket booking office has been built at a cost of Rs 25 lakh in Chandlodiya where people from the area can book their train tickets.

Speaking on the occasion, the home minister said that the previous government had allocated a paltry sum of Rs 590 crore whereas the Modi government had spent Rs 3,960 crore for development of Railways in this area.

As many as 10 trains, including the Gorakhpur-Okha, Somnath-Jabalpur, Bandra-Mumbai and Ahmedabad-Somnath Express trains, will halt at Chandlodiya station starting today. DeshGujarat