Vizag MP Sribharat seeks early Gazette notification for SCoR zone

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Sribharat Mathukumilli

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Visakhapatnam MP M. Sribharat has appealed to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for the aboriginal merchandise of the Gazette notification for the South Coast Railway (SCoR) Zone to alteration administrative functioning of the portion and addressing long-standing aspirations of the radical of Andhra Pradesh.

Mr. Sribharat met the Railway Minister successful New Delhi connected Wednesday (December 17) and discussed respective cardinal issues concerning railway infrastructure and nationalist information successful Andhra Pradesh. While acknowledging the Ministry’s proactive attack successful strengthening the railways successful Visakhapatnam portion and expediting the works relating to SCoR, helium impressed upon the Railway Minister the request for merchandise of the Gazette notification for the operationalisation of the zone.

He besides sought urgent involution connected captious pedestrian information issues successful Srungavarapukota constituency. He requested the authorisation of a Foot Over Bridge (FOB) astatine Mangalapalem village, Kothavalasa Mandal, wherever residents, students, and elder citizens are compelled to transverse progressive railway tracks owed to the lack of a harmless pedestrian crossing.

He besides raised the contented of the Road Under Bridge (R.U.B.) astatine Kothavalasa, which remains waterlogged for astir of the year, making it inaccessible for pedestrians and forcing thousands of regular commuters and astir 3,000 students to hazard unsafe crossings. To resoluteness this, helium urged the Ministry to o.k. either the operation of a Foot Over Bridge (FOB) oregon a dedicated pedestrian footpath ramp alongside the R.U.B., supported by a technological drainage system.

Mr. Sribharat emphasised that timely enactment connected these matters would importantly amended nationalist safety, easiness regular commuting, and heighten wide connectivity. MP Sribharat said that the Railway Minister assured him that the issues raised would beryllium examined for due action.

Published - December 17, 2025 08:32 p.m. IST

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