KTR urges Centre to create Kazipet railway division

HYDERABAD

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) moving president K.T. Rama Rao has written to Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw urging the contiguous instauration of a caller railway part with its office astatine Kazipet successful Telangana.

In the missive shared with the media, Mr. Rama Rao drew attraction to the ongoing restructuring of the South Central Railway and the operationalisation of the South Coast Railway (ScoR), which, helium said, has placed an excessive administrative and operational load connected the Secunderabad division.

The Secunderabad part presently manages astir 2,755 way kilometres and this is expected to summation to astir 3,150 way kilometres with the summation of the Wadi - Raichur and Vishnupuram –Bibinagar double-line sections.

This acold exceeds the optimal administrative span observed successful astir railway divisions crossed the country. Comparing Secunderabad with different divisions, KTR pointed retired that Vijayawada and Guntakal divisions grip astir 2,200 way kilometres each, portion the Guntur part manages little than 900 kilometres.

Describing the instauration of a Kazipet part arsenic some “logical and necessary,” the BRS person projected that it encompasses cardinal obstruction sections specified arsenic Kazipet – Balharshah, Peddapalli – Nizamabad, Kazipet – Yerrupalem, Dornakal – Manuguru and Sathupalli, Motumari – Vishnupuram, and Kazipet – Wangapalli. Together, these sections would signifier a coherent, high-density web spanning astir 1,500 to 2,000 way kilometres — good wrong established divisional norms.

He besides urged the Railways to retreat the projected transportation of the Peddapalli–Nizamabad conception to the Hyderabad part and alternatively delegate it to the projected Kazipet division, citing geographical proximity and operational continuity. Similarly, helium sought a reappraisal of the program to displacement the Latur Road–Parli Vaijnath conception to the Nanded division.

Mr. Rama Rao highlighted Kazipet’s strategical determination astatine the intersection of large trunk routes, with tripling towards Balharshah and Vijayawada already completed, and quadrupling up to Secunderabad and Kazipet. He said the corridor has precocious gross imaginable owed to beardown freight postulation from cement, fertiliser, foodgrain and powerfulness assemblage units.

The upcoming railway manufacturing portion astatine Kazipet, on with projected rolling overhaul and locomotive attraction facilities astatine Mahabubabad, further strengthens the lawsuit for establishing a caller division, helium added.