Statesman News ServiceMALDA, Feb 19: The Malda Intuc leaders have decided to begin fresh agitation against the decision of the Northeast Frontier Railway to shift its construction office of the Deputy Chief Engineer (NF Railway) from Malda town.
The Intuc district president Mr Narendranath Tiwari today said: “We have got information that the NF railway has asked to wind up its construction office in Malda, close to the Malda railway division office. This office will be shifted to Assam and its staff will be transferred to other areas." The construction office was set up to execute the Eklakhi-Balurghat railway and other projects since the tenure of the then-railway minister Mr ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury.
After completion of Eklakhi-Balurghat railway project, the railway board planned to implement its Gazol to Itahar (North Dinajpur) railway project and conducted a survey for its execution. The construction office was working on the project.
According to the Intuc district president, Mr Narendranath Tiwari, the Indian railway allotted Rs 55 crore for bridge construction and laying railway tracks after conducting a survey from Gazole (Eklakhi in Malda) to Itahar via Gunjaria (North Dinajpur). “The then-Union information and broadcasting minister Mr Priya Ranjan Das Munshi took the initiative in undertaking the project from Gazol to Itahar,” Mr Tiwari added.
Based on the construction office, Mr Das Munshi also tried to build a railway link from Kaliaganj (North Dinajpur) to Buniadpur (South Dinajpur) which is under the division of the NF railway. “We will launch a protest against the decision of the NF railway shortly if it shifts construction office from here,” Mr. Tiwari said.
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