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The tract survey for preparing a elaborate task study for a caller broadgauge enactment betwixt Ariyalur and Namakkal via Perambalur has been completed.
This was the written reply fixed by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to an unstarred question raised by Namakkal MP V.S. Matheswaran successful the Lok Sabha recently. Mr. Matheswaran had sought to cognize from the Railway Minister the contiguous presumption of the connection for a caller broadgauge enactment connecting Ariyalur with Erode via Perambalur, Thuraiyur, Thatheingarpet, and Tiruchengodu.
Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw said Ariyalur and Erode were already connected via Tiruchi and Karur connected the existing railway network. “To augment the connectivity, a survey for mentation of Detailed Project Report for caller enactment betwixt Ariyalur and Namakkal via Perambalur (116 km) has been sanctioned and the tract survey has been completed”.
“After firming up of the Detailed Project Report, sanctioning of the task requires consultation with assorted stakeholders including State authorities and indispensable approvals viz appraisal of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Finance,” the Minister said successful his reply.
As sanctioning of projects is simply a continuous and dynamic process, nonstop timelines cannot beryllium fixed, Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The caller enactment projected would walk done parts of Ariyalur, Perambalur, Tiruchi, and Namakkal districts.
The request for a railway enactment linking Perambalur had been a agelong felt one. The request for obstruction connectivity for Perambalur had been raised time and again by the MPs representing the Perambalur Parliamentary constituency earlier.
Perambalur is the lone portion which does not person a railway enactment successful the State. The contiguous Perambalur MP Arun Nehru excessively had raised this contented successful Parliament urging the Railway Minister to authorisation a caller railway enactment via Perambalur to spur development.
