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Mewat RTI Manch members protesting over ‘no obstruction enactment for Nuh’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
A reply to a Right to Information (RTI) exertion has revealed that the projected 104-km railway way from Delhi to Alwar successful Rajasthan via Haryana’s Nuh has been “kept successful abeyance” by the Railway Board, dashing hopes for a railway connectivity anytime soon for the most-backward portion successful Haryana. Falling wrong the National Capital Region, Nuh figures connected the Niti Aayog’s database of 112 Aspirational Districts – the astir underdeveloped districts crossed the state – and railway connectivity remains 1 of the long-standing demands of this region. Though assorted governments person supported the demand, small advancement has been made connected the ground. In reply to an RTI exertion filed by societal activistic Rajuddin Meo, a nonmigratory of Nuh’s Ghaghas village, the Northern Railway said, “The task is successful the database of projects which are kept successful abeyance arsenic per missive issued by Rly Board.” The survey for the Delhi-Sohan-Nuh-Ferozepur Jhirka-Alwar was completed successful 2012-13 and the task was sanctioned the pursuing fiscal year. The archetypal outgo of the task is ₹1,239 crore and comprises 14 stations. It is expected to trim roadworthy postulation and besides lend to socio-economic improvement of Mewat region, comprising Meo Muslim- dominated areas successful Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The Haryana Public Relations Department, successful a property connection connected February 4 past year, had quoted Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav saying that enactment was presently nether mode connected 14 caller railway tracks successful Haryana and ₹15,875 crore would beryllium spent connected laying 1,195 km of caller tracks, including the Delhi-Sohna-Nuh-Firozpur Jhirka-Alwar railway track, among others. In effect to a query from The Hindu, Union Minister of State for Planning and Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh said according to accusation antecedently received from the railways, a proviso of astir ₹1 crore had been made successful the fund for the Delhi-Sohna-Alwar railway line, and an relationship had been opened for it. The task had besides been approved by the Railway Board, helium said, adding that further accusation would beryllium sought from the railways soon based connected the accusation received done the RTI plea. Saying that railway connectivity has remained a “distant imagination for the patriotic portion of Mewat”, Rajuddin, convenor, Mewat RTI Manch, said, “A railway web has been laid astir Nuh territory since Independence, but the dependable of a bid whistle is yet to beryllium heard successful this region. The RTI effect contradicts the government’s promises. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should laic a railway enactment successful Nuh, and the Nayab Saini authorities successful Haryana should besides co-operate successful this endeavour.”
Published - February 04, 2026 12:44 americium IST
