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.
\nEighty-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.
\nSpeaking 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 \u201cwe have been pushing for an alternate route\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}