Maharashtra: Social worker writes to PM, renews push for Thane-Jawhar-Nashik railway route covering tribal belt

THANE: In yet another attempt to get railway connectivity for tribal towns and villages of Maharashtra’s Palghar district, a lawyer and social worker has renewed a fresh push and has now written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting sanction for a broad gauge railway route.
Eighty-year-old Rajaram Mukne, a lawyer by profession, along with social organisations, has been demanding a railway route connecting Thane to Nashik via Bhiwandi, Wada, Vikramgad, Jawhar and Mokhada and a separate route connecting Vikramgad and Dahanu since 1989.
Speaking to TOI Online, Mukne, the former president of Jawhar Nagar Palika, said that 22-years-ago, the railway board had conducted the Dahanu-Nashik route survey inauguration ceremony. However, later it was officially declared as commercially unviable and since then “we have been pushing for an alternate route”.