As per the initial details, the four projects for Maharashtra that have gotten the go-ahead include Lonand and Kohlapur-Vaibhavwadi, Pune-Nashik, Manmad-Dhule-Indore and Gadchandur-Adilabad.
Four out of nine broad gauge line projects for which the Maharashtra government had sought an approval from the Centre found a place in railway minister Suresh Prabhu' s railway budget for 2016 on Thursday.
As per the initial details, the four projects for Maharashtra that have gotten the go-ahead include Lonand and Kohlapur-Vaibhavwadi, Pune-Nashik, Manmad-Dhule-Indore and Gadchandur-Adilabad.
Sources, however, claim that the Maharashtra government in mid-February had sent a letter to the Union minister seeking special attention on nine projects — Ahmednagar-Beed-Parli, Vaijanath, Wardha-Yavatmal-Nanded, Wadasa-Gadchiroli, Nagpur-Nagbhid gauge conversion, Pune-Nashik, Manmad-Dhule-Indore, Gadchandur-Adilabad, Baramati-Lonand and Kohlapur-Vaibhavwadi.
"As the board papers will be shared with us soon, we would be able to understand better on how many projects exactly have been sanctioned and how much budget has been allotted to each. As per the initial details, four projects have found mention in the railway budget for 2016," said a senior official from the transport department.
The letter was sent following a series of meetings with the Union minister in Delhi ahead of the budget.
Department sources also claimed that they would begin working on a detailed analysis of the railway budget 2016 viz-a-viz Maharashtra and submit it before chief minister Devendra Fadnavis by next week.
Sources claim that all these nine projects will be implemented on the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) module. SPVs are joint ventures between two or more agencies. An example is the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation, which was formed in 1999 by the state and the railways to fund rail projects on the Mumbai suburban network under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project.
"Once the SPV is formed and stakeholders like the state and central governments are on board, it will decide on which projects are to be taken up for execution," the official said.
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