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The South-Central Railway, Secunderabad, has determined in precept to hand over the 120-year-old decommissioned bridge throughout the Godavari and 1085.59 sq. yards of land adjoining to it in Rajamahendravaram to Andhra Pradesh in alternate of 2583.33 sq. yards of land supplied by the State authorities.
The Railway Board is likely to concern the sanction order throughout its assembly scheduled to be held this month, Rajamahendravaram MP M. Bharat has advised Puucho News after a gathering with Railway Board Chairman V.{K}. Yadav.
The 2.74-km size bridge, named after the then Governor of Madras, Sri Arthur Elibank Havelock, was commissioned on November 11, 1897 and thrown open for visitors on August 30, 1900. It was decommissioned in 1997 after its service for over a century within the historical past of Indian Railways.
In January, 2017, the Railway Board accorded approval for handing over the bridge to the State authorities on ‘as is where is basis’ topic to the circumstances that alternate of railway land within the neighborhood of bridge with the land of equal worth.
In July, East Godavari Collector D. Muralidhar Reddy wrote to the Indian Railways stating that the district administration was prepared to hand over 2,583.33 sq. yards of land (Survey No.317 in Rajamahendravaram metropolis) to the railways and request it to expedite additional motion to take possession of the railway land (1085 sq. yards) adjoining to the bridge.
On October 12, Chief General Engineer A. Achuta Rao (works department, South Central Railway, Secunderabad) requested Executive Director (land and facilities), Railway Board, to talk the handover proposal of the bridge and the respective land to the State authorities.
Beautification plan
Mr. Bharat stated he defined to the Railway Board Chairman concerning the State authorities’s plan to develop the bridge on the traces of London Bridge. “A ₹100-crore beautification plan is being prepared to develop it into one of the prime tourist destinations in the country,” stated Mr. Bharat.
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was briefed concerning the beautification plan and the venture would assist Rajamahendravaram get the heritage tag underneath the HRIDAY (Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojna), stated the MP.
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