{"id":1384,"date":"2008-06-12T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2008-07-16T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T15:25:56","slug":"railway-budget-2008-09-few-highlight-in-odisha-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1384","title":{"rendered":"Railway Budget 2008-09: Few highlights in Odisha context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"alignleft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indianra ilways.gov. in\/budget- 0809\/budget- speech-eng- 0809.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Railway budget 2008-09<\/a>(PDF):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">75% of Railways goods traffic moves on about 20,000 km of the railways\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 high density network, coal and iron ore routes and port connectivity railway lines.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Coal is the mainstay of Railway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freight traffic. Loading of coal in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">2007-08 is likely to be 336 MT. Most of the new dedicated routes for coal movement will be fit for 25 ton axle load trains.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">The Railways receives 120 MT traffic from the steel industry every year.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><em>Odisha is a major contributor to above two, coal and steel sectors, from which Indian railway makes a large share of profit and East Cost Railway is second most profit making zone of Indian railway.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><strong><em>However, in social responsibiltiy Railway has contributed little towards backward region development programme like for Kalhandi Balangir Koraput Kandhamal region.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">There is no new line proposed for Odisha during this budget.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Based on demands, the following surveys are proposed to be taken up in Odisha:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"none\"><span style=\"Times-Roman;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Junagarh-Ambaguda<br \/>\nBarbil-Banspani<br \/>\nKantabanji-Navrangpur-Jeypore<br \/>\nKhurda Road-Rajatgarh<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>Note: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) Survey has no meaning unless it is approved by railway. Junagarh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nabarangpur was under consideration since years (from early 1990s, but no survey was under taken till now)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Khordha road \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Balangir was approved in 1993, but not yet started properly<\/p>\n<p>(3) Lanjigarh road \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Junagarh was approved in 1990 with initial estimate cost 250 crores, the project in not yet completetd by near about two decades.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Bimalgarh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Talcher, on the ground no progress has been made since approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway budget 2008-09(PDF): 75% of Railways goods traffic moves on about 20,000 km of the railways\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 high density network, coal and iron ore routes and port connectivity railway lines. Coal is the mainstay of Railway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freight traffic. Loading of coal in 2007-08 is likely to be 336 MT. Most of the new dedicated routes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railway-budget-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}