South Central Railway will arrange a meeting with Members of Parliament on January 10 at Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad, as part of its pre-rail budget exercise to measure the necessity and requirements in their areas.Member of Parliament from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha from Telangana and neighbouring states Maharashtra and Karnataka, which are in the legal power of SCR, are likely to attend the meet. The MPs would submit their requirements. The SCR has a tradition of taking the opinions of MPs in the run-up to the Rail Budget. SCR general manager Vinod Kumar Yadav will meet MPs from Telangana on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Yadav held a meeting with the MPs from Andhra Pradesh to receive their proposals to incorporate them in the ensuing Railway budget.The Railways might use part of the Nirbhaya Fund to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in ladies` coaches, deployment of RPF women constables in ladies coach and addition in the number of washrooms on platforms, among other measures.Meanwhile, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the energizing of railway routes has taken a quantum jump under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.Since 2014, the railway ministry has been electrifying 1,500 km every year as opposed to only 654 km during 2010-14, Goyal said at an event.
