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A time aft Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw countered Chief Minister M K Stalin contending the obstruction fund allocation to Tamil Nadu had accrued much than 8.5 times since 2014, reaching ₹7,611 crore successful 2026–27; State Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar insisted that capable funds had not been allocated for acquiring lands for assorted railway projects.
Denying Mr Vaishnaw’s complaint that the DMK authorities had not extended practice to instrumentality the railway projects, Mr. Sivasankar claimed the erstwhile had made mendacious statements with an purpose of scoring governmental mileage.
Addressing journalists successful Tiruchi, helium contended the State authorities had been according apical precedence successful implementing the railway projects. Mr Stalin had extended adjacent practice to the Union authorities for acquiring lands for the railway projects since 2021.
“The State authorities was expected to get 148 hectares of lands for 7 schemes announced by the Railway Ministry since 2021. The State authorities extended administrative authorisation for each of them, and had acquired 73 hectares. As acold arsenic the enactment of a caller wide gauge railway way betwixt Morappur and Dharmapuri was concerned, the Railway Ministry had revised the onshore acquisition strategy owed to the instrumentality and bid issues reported successful 4 villages,” helium alleged.
Mr. Sivasankar said the Ministry was yet to merchandise ₹298 crore towards onshore acquisition for the enactment of the railway way betwixt Thiruvananthapuram and Kanniyakumari. It was yet to merchandise funds for respective different projects. It was pursuing the signifier of releasing funds lone successful token advance. It had caused problems successful completing the onshore acquisition process for assorted projects. On the different hand, the State authorities machinery had worked good to get the lands arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. But, Mr. Vaishnaw had concealed the facts and accused the State of having failed to cooperate with his Ministry, helium alleged.
The Transport Minister said Mr. Stalin had written a missive to the Union government, urging it to driblet the connection to physique a railway way to Dhanushkodi from Rameswaram arsenic it was coming nether the ecologically delicate zone. But, the Railway Minister had made a “false statement” that the Chief Minister had not extended practice to instrumentality the scheme. It was condemnable.
