CM wants Centre to take up Krishna - Vikarabad railway line

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Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has requested the Central Government to instrumentality up improvement of Krishna - Vikarabad railway enactment with Central funds.

The State Government connected its portion has assured to carnivore the full costs pertaining to acquisition of onshore for the caller line. The State Government has identified limestone reserves successful the areas abutting the projected enactment and has resolved to make the country arsenic a hub for cement and textile hub.

The Chief Minister called connected Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw successful New Delhi connected Thursday. He told the Minister that the Krishna portion laic adjacent to respective cement industries successful the neighbouring Karnataka and it was accordingly projected to make areas including Kodangal, Daultabad and Tekalkod nether his autochthonal Kodangal constituency arsenic concern hubs.

Referring to the precocious velocity corridors projected successful the Union Budget, helium said the Telangana Government was prepared to supply 500 acre onshore adjacent Shamshabad for improvement arsenic hub of the precocious velocity corridors. The Centre announced its intentions to make Hyderabad -Chennai (778 km), Hyderabad - Bengaluru (596 km) and Hyderabad - Pune (556 km) precocious velocity corridors recently.

He suggested that the Centre find the originating constituent of these precocious velocity trains astatine Shamshabad. Since the Hyderabad - Chennai corridor would walk done Andhra Pradesh superior Amaravati, the Railway Ministry should see sanctioning railway enactment connecting Amaravati and Machilipatnam truthful that question of goods from the adust larboard being established successful Telangana to Machilipatnam larboard could beryllium faster.

Explaining that Shamshabad would crook arsenic a trijunction if the originating constituent of precocious velocity trains was acceptable up there, Mr. Revanth Reddy requested Mr. Vaishnaw to instrumentality up onshore acquisition works pertaining to the task astatine the earliest. The Union Minister responded positively to the suggestions made by the Chief Minister.

Published - February 12, 2026 08:15 p.m. IST

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