The Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari railway line, to be inaugurated tomorrow at Rewari, would act as a link between Chandigarh and Jaipur, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Monday.
It would be the first railway line to be made functional after a gap of 33 years in Haryana, he added.
Hooda expressed hope the new railway line between Rewari and Rohtak would usher in a new industrial revolution as industrial estates would come up along this railway line.
The chief minister said he had raised the demand for this railway as an MP in 1991. “Thereafter, the proposal for the same was sent to the Planning Commission in 1996...Now this long standing demand of the people of the State has been fulfilled,” he said, adding that he would board the first train on this railway line from Rewari tomorrow. He told reporters the project had cost Rs 602 crore, half of which has been borne by the state government.
When asked to comment on the loss being suffered by farmers due to prevailing intense cold weather, Hooda said this weather would be beneficial for wheat crops and added last year the state government had got frost included in the list of natural calamities.
“If the crops of the farmers suffer any damage due to frost, the government would get a special survey conducted to compensate them,” he said.