Cabinet OK’s Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road rail line
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved the construction of the 116.65-km Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road rail line at an estimated cost of `2,798.16 crore.
Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur said the Cabinet also granted central status to The Railway University in Gujarat’s Vadodara and it has been renamed as Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya.
To be built by the Ministry of Railways, the project will link two states and three religious places and will be completed by 2026-27. The proposed rail line will traverse through the Sirohi district of Rajasthan and Sabarkantha, Banaskantha and Mahesana districts of Gujarat.
Ambaji is one of the 51 ‘Shakti Peeths’ which attract millions of devotees from Gujarat as well as other parts of the country and abroad every year.
