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Railway board should take planning body route: TRS MP Vinod Kumar

MPs also asked the railways to upgrade Kazipet as a separate division
Hyderabad: TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar on Wednesday said the Railway Board should be decentralised and planning power vested with regional bodies, on the lines of what Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done with the Planning Commission.
He was speaking at a meeting conducted by the South Central Railway with members of Parliament from Telangana. Mr Vinod Kumar said this was because most of the demands made by the delegation of MPs was met with a standard response from SCR officials: “It will be forwarded to the Railway Board.”
MP Jitender Reddy said that a request had been made to rename the Hyderabad-New Delhi AP Express as ‘Telangana Express’. MPs also asked the railways to upgrade Kazipet as a separate division, improve the hospital.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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