Survey vs Real Allocations
Col Malik sa'ab -
Glad that you were able to locate the relevant announcement. Couple of things:
Surveys that you had quoted are more or less a formality, nothing concrete, for example the first survey of rohtak-jhjjr-rewari line was conducted in 91 and since then multiple surveys have been conducted in various budgets...infact there are over 5000 railway lines that have been approved in surveys as feasible.
The real trick is to get allocations and fundings...
This year only 9 railway lines from across India could manage allocations, and I'm proud to say that r-j-r is one of them. Further, since Haryana govt. has offered to pay 50% of cost this is the only railway line in the country that the Railways has agreed to execute in a timebound manner (3 yrs). Which brings me to another question -- Why had no other Haryana govt in previous few decades had taken this up with Railways, given that this line is now likely to open a gateway of commercial and industrial progress for south haryana...anyway...
Dev Dahiya sa'ab -
ROHTAK-SONEPAT 4 LANING:
If you travel through the stretch now you'll see 4 laning work till Bhalot already in progress. While we are limited to start by 4 laning only this initial stretch for now(fought for this one as a last minute budget adjustment), I remain hopeful we will find funding in next year to extend this further.