Raipur. The railway washing station will be built near the Central Station of Nawa Raipur. For this, 60 acres of land has been selected. After the construction of the washing station, the maintenance will begin in addition to the repair of the bogies and the engine. The cost of the entire project is Rs 1500 crore. With this, rail facilities will increase. According to railway officials, the railway line from Kharsia will be expanded from Naya Raipur. The track here will be added to Paudallakasa. After that the train will run directly from Nawa Raipur to Kolkata, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam.
The railway will start more than a dozen trains. Right now there is no washing station in Raipur station or around it. In the first phase, Raipur Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express, Durg-Jammuutvi, Durg Nizamuddin, Durg Gorakhpur, Durg-Kanpur, Durg-Bhopal, Durg-Jaipur, Durg-Ajmer, Durg-Dalli Rajhara Express are planned to run. Through these cities, 266 km railway line will be laid, the construction of a washing station in the central will get a big benefit.
Right now not a single train is built from Raipur station. This gives passengers less quota of reservation. With the construction of a washing station, trains will start from here and people’s journey will be easy. According to the washing station with which the project is being introduced, the railway line will be laid from Kharsia to Balodabazar via Balodabazar via Kendri, Abhanpur and Durg Pawara to Paramalakasa. Its survey work is going on. Many areas will be connected by rail, with this project, there are many areas of Chhattisgarh, which will join the rail network for the first time after independence. This will provide passenger train facility to people living in those areas. The areas where this line will pass, there are cement and other industries, so this route will also prove to be important for transportation. According to the Railways, 6 hours time is fixed for mechanical maintenance and washing of a train.
In this, every compartment is washed by maintaining the cartons of vehicles. But due to low space in the fort, there is a lot of problems during the repair of trains. According to Railway DRM Dayanand, the survey for this has started. Being Raipur capital, more trains will run from here in future. It is proposed to build a coaching depot for this. This will allow 30 trains to be repaired. For this, a letter has been written from the government to give land in Nawa Raipur. Survey is being done to connect Kharsia line with Nawa Raipur.