Thiruvananthapuram, June 17 : After Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, opposition leader in the assembly
Ramesh Chennithala today asked the Centre to withdraw its decision to abandon the much-awaited railway coach factory project planned at Kanjikode in Palakkad district.
The senior Congress leader sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a relook into the Centre’s
decision to withdraw from the project. Years after it was announced, the Centre had taken no
steps to set up the proposed factory, he said. “Now the project itself is going to be abandoned. It is a
great injustice to Kerala,” Chennithala said in the letter. Chief Minister Vijayan, on June 15, sent a letter to
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, requesting that the coach factory be set up at Kanjikode in Palakkad district itself.
Detailing the steps taken by the state government to make the coach factory a reality, he had said about 240 acres of land had already been acquired for the project and people of the state have been waiting for it with great expectation. A similar factory in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, was
proposed in the 2008-09 budget and the unit was commissioned in 2012, Vijayan had said in the letter.
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