Mumbai, Mar 12 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of dedicated 6,000 Railway projects worth more than Rs 85,000 crore, laid foundation stone of petrochemicals complex of Petronet LNG at Dahej and flagged off 10 Vande Bharat trains, extension of four Vande Bharat trains and other train services at functions organised simultaneously at several places across the country.
These included laying foundation or dedication of 50 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadi Kendras, 222 Railway Goods Sheds, 51 Gati Shakti Multi-modal Cargo Terminals, 2,646 Digital Controlling of Stations, 35 Railway Workshops, Loco Sheds, Pitlines, Coaching Depots, Doubling, Multi-tracking and Gauge conversion of 1,500 Km of railway lines, Automatic Block Signalling of 80 Rail Line sections of 1,045 Km, 35 Rail Coach Restaurants, More than 1,500 One Station One Product stalls, 975 solar powered stations, service buildings, electrification of 2,135 Km of Rail line sections, 401 Km of New Khurja-Sanehwal Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor section, 244 Km of New Makarpura-New Gholvad Western Dedicated Freight Corridor section, Operation Control Centre, Ahmedabad, Phaltan-Baramati New Rail Line and nine Electric Traction System Upgradation work, said a press release issued by Central Railway here.
The Prime Minister also flagged off the Vande Bharat Trains namely Mysuru-Chennai, Lucknow-Dehradun, Kalaburagi-Bengaluru, Ranchi-Varanasi, Hazrat Nizamuddin-Khajuraho, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Patna-Lucknow, Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central and Bhubaneshwar-Visakhapatnam.