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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu approved the allotment of onshore for the operation of caller railway coaching terminals astatine Amaravati and Gannavaram and velocity up the enlargement of the coaching terminals astatine Vijayawada and Guntur.
He directed the officials to guarantee superior railway connectivity to the seaports nether operation successful bid to amended logistics successful the State, and suggested that a program beryllium worked retired to acceptable up an Integrated Logistics Park successful collaboration with the Central government.
Addressing a reappraisal gathering connected railway projects successful the State connected Monday, Mr. Naidu called for steps to expedite the operation of Nadikudi-Srikalahasti, Guntur-Guntakal, Gunadala-Mustabad bypass and Renigunta-Rayadurg-Tumkur railway lines.
Taking banal of railway projects worthy ₹33,630 crore that are successful progress, the Chief Minister said proposals to person high-speed elevated railway corridors connected routes similar Hyderabad-Bengaluru and Hyderabad-Chennai via Amaravati should beryllium discussed and indispensable enactment initiated.
Mr. Naidu suggested that the projected slug bid task should beryllium connected to the planetary airdrome astatine Amaravati, and emphasised that the Chennai-Bengaluru high-speed elevated corridor should see Tirupati arsenic a stop.
He enquired astir the dedicated freight corridor from Kharagpur to Chennai, and said the State authorities planned to alteration Andhra Pradesh into a multi-modal logistics hub.
Further, noting that portion enactment was nether mode to amended north-south connectivity, projects connecting the eastbound and occidental States should beryllium pursued with apical priority.
The Chief Minister ordered the contiguous merchandise of ₹27 crore for the adjacent signifier of enactment connected the caller Nadikudi-Srikalahasti railway line.
He besides told the officials to commencement bid services connected the Kakinada-Kotipalli-Amalapuram enactment which was a portion of the Kotipalli-Narsapur route.
Steps should beryllium taken to expedite the Guntur-Guntakal railway enactment doubling works and the operation of the 3rd enactment betwixt Kazipet and Vijayawada.
Iconic stations
Mr. Naidu directed officials to make Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati arsenic iconic railway stations and to physique the Amaravati railway presumption with innovative designs.
He sought speedy re-development of the Vijayawada railway station, and suggested mounting up of a skywalk astatine Tirupati presumption for rider convenience.
Railway officials told the Chief Minister that Nellore and Rajahmundry stations were being upgraded, and 73 stations successful the State were successful the process of modernisation nether the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
The constitution of the South Coastal Railway Zone office successful Visakhapatnam should beryllium completed astatine the earliest, Mr. Naidu added.
Minister for Transport, Roads and Buildings and Infrastructure and Investments B.C. Janardhan Reddy, Special Chief Secretaries M.T. Krishna Babu and G. Sai Prasad, South Central Railway General Manager Sanjay Srivastava and different railway officials took part.
