After Shopian, the locals of Baramulla are up in arms in opposition to the railway line enlargement plans within the Kashmir valley.
Whereas villagers in south Kashmir’s Shopian district have objected to the land-marking for the railway line within the space as it can devastated their apple orchards, the residents in north Kashmir’s declare that railway authorities earmarked the bottom of diploma college Baramulla for the railroad monitor.
The Railways Ministry has accepted the ultimate location survey of 5 strains, all of which fall beneath the Kashmir division. The strains embrace the Baramulla-Banihal part (135.5 kilometers), Baramulla-Uri (50 kilometers), Sopore-Kupwara (33.7 kilometers), Awantipora-Shopian (27.6 kilometers), and Anantnag-Bijbehara-Pahalgam (77.5 kilometers).
The railway line enlargement plan has triggered protests in Shopian, the place fruit growers have appealed to the Prime Minister to divert the monitor.
In Baramulla, civil society members have additionally demanded a diversion of the railway monitor, which they stated passes by means of one of many oldest college grounds in north Kashmir.
“It got here to the discover that the Division of Railways authorities have earmarked the diploma college floor in Baramulla for fleeting the railway monitor in the direction of Uri that bisects the playground, which is the one obtainable floor in Baramulla,” a illustration by the Civil Society Baramulla to Deputy Commissioner Baramulla learn.
The Baramulla administration has written to the Deputy Chief Engineer, Northern Railway Srinagar, and requested him to look into the matter and redress the grievance on benefit.
The mainstream politicians, too, have demanded the shifting of those railway tracks.
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