Expectations From Railway Budget 2021: Will Odisha See Tejas Train? |OTV News

Bhubaneswar: With the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman going to desk the all-important Union Budget 2020-21 on February 1, all eyes are mounted on her ‘all-right signal’ for the fast-tracking of rail infrastructure in Odisha.
It is so as a result of FM Sitharaman may even be laying down the Railway Budget 2021-22 together with the Union Budget on coming Monday.
For lengthy, Railway Budgets have been the rolling shares that steam an excessive amount of politicking, although the steam-rolled engines have been a previous shadow of the Indian Railways.
While the ruling BJD right here has upped the ante on the BJP-led Centre to allocate a whopping Rs 7,200 crore for Odisha, the opposition Congress has demanded a Rs 10,000 crore package deal for the State’s rail initiatives. And the State BJP, which didn’t want to develop into a punching bag, reels out the exhausting stats like Odisha receiving a mean finances grant of Rs 4,368 crore per 12 months in the course of the interval of 2014-20 as in opposition to Rs 838 cr per 12 months throughout 2009-14.
In the backdrop of Rail Budget 2020-21, which noticed a slashing of Rs 220 crore from the budgetary grant for the rail initiatives within the State allotted in 2019-20, what would be the destiny of Odisha this 12 months when the finances is following the pandemic 12 months?
RAIL BUDGET FOR ODISHA: A DRIVER OR DOOM?
With the prediction by a latest report from ICICI Direct that hints at pegging the capital expenditure of railways at a whopping Rs 1.79 lakh crore for the 12 months 2021-22, there are indications that Odisha rail initiatives may even be witnessing a capital enhance this 12 months.
“The total allocation for new line projects in Odisha is likely to be in the range of Rs 3,700 – Rs 4,200 crore this year,” disclosed a senior official within the ECoR right here.
ECoR sources additional noticed that below the community improvement plan on this finances the rail initiatives traversing by way of the districts like Nuapada, Kandhamal, Koraput, Angul, Keonjhar and Jagatsinghpur will get a lift.
NEW LINE PROJECTS 2021-22
As per extremely positioned sources, following are the brand new line initiatives that the rail finances this 12 months could focus.
Khurda – Balangir new line – capital outlay could also be hiked to Rs 100 crore. And whole allocation, together with extra-budgetary assets, is projected to the touch round Rs 600 crore.
Sambalpur – Goplapur through Phulbani new line mission could get an outlay of Rs 100 crore.
Angul –Sukinda mission might even see an allocation of Rs 450 crore.
Talcher – Bimalagarh mission might even see a lesser allocation of under Rs 100 crore because the mission has hit the land hurdle. The progress of the mission hinges on land acquisition by the State authorities.
Talcher – Angul with Y-connection at Talcher might even see an allocation of over Rs 50 crore.
Jeypore – Malkangiri, Nuapada – Gunupur through Theruvali and Jeypore – Nabarangpur new line initiatives could obtain a capital enhance on this finances.
All 14 survey works in Odisha accomplished.
The finances could embody a brand new line mission of Junagarh – Nabarangpur
The finances could suggest quadrupling of present traces in Odisha Economic Corridor (Khurda-Cuttack-Jagatsinghpur/ Jajpur-Kendrapara-Bhadrak).
The tripling of traces could also be proposed for sections like Cuttack – Barang, Cuttack – Paradeep, Haridaspur – Paradeep, Nergundi – Cuttack and Talcher – Budhapank.
As per sources, the Railways are planning to put triple traces within the high-density route of Howrah – Chennai that passes by way of State’s coastal districts, particularly in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack sections.
TEJAS POWER FOR ODISHA?  
According to sources, Odisha could not see any Tejas prepare this 12 months because the State doesn’t determine within the nation’s high-speed rail hall routes. The cause for not being within the Tejas checklist is the absence of cities with 1 million-plus inhabitants, poor passenger movement to metropolis pairs (means a metropolis in Odisha linked to a different metropolis within the high-speed hall) both in AC rail or air journeys and so forth.
DEDICATED FREIGHT CORRIDOR
The finances could give a capital enhance to the East Coast Freight Corridor from Hijli close to Kharagpur to Vijayawada, which can move by way of Odisha.