Dhanbad: Anupam Sharma, general manager of East Central Railway who was in Dhanbad on Thursday discussed the ongoing development projects and schemes of East Central Railway with the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha falling under the jurisdiction of Dhanbad division spread over more than 140 stations and halts lying in five states including Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bengal.

The meeting held at the office of Divisional Railway Manager of Dhanbad during which senior officials of Dhanbad Division including Ashish Bansal, Divisional Railway Manager; Akhilesh Pandey, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager and others were present also discussed the demands of different participating MPs about the development work in their respective areas and also increasing the public utilities.

Talking to media after the meeting, PN Singh, Dhanbad MP, who was also present in the meeting, said, “We discussed a whole range of issues right from public amenities at the railway stations to development of other facilities including the Railway Overbridge and others.”

“We also raised the discontinuation or withdrawal of some of the existing facilities and pressed for resumption of such facilities and General Manager assured to analyze the demand for resumption of such facilties” said Singh.

Nitin Bhatt, senior BJP leader of the district who also attended the meeting added, “The issue of neglect of Dhanbad Division, with regard to development work of railways, which is one of highest revenue earning division of the East Central Railway zone also raised by Dhanbad MP during the meeting” and participating MPs also raised the demand for launching of different trains from their respective areas.

Praduman Choubey

Cheaper petrol price: BJP slams Heamnt government

A petrol pump in Dhanbad Gautam Dey

Dhanbad: Chief Minister, Hemant Soren's announcement of cheaper petrol by Rs 25 for those ration card holders who are covered under the National Food Security Act has stirred a political controversy with opposition BJP terming it as a political gimmick intended to befool the common people.

Talking to media, Raj Sinha, Dhanbad MLA, said, “The announcement shows its immaturity as it seems to have made in a hurry without calculating the financial implications. The impracticality can be assumed from the fact that neither the finance department has been consulted nor a resolution in this regard has been passed in the state cabinet.”

"The Chief Minister should realise the fact that he is not running a monarchy and rather acting as the head of a democratically elected government and thus things have to go as per the laid procedure of governance," added Sinha.

He further said, “The decision also shows the poor financial management of the government which has been proved time and again earlier. It is only due to poor financial management of the current government that it has failed on all developmental fronts.."

Amitesh Sahay, Central President of Trade and Commerce Cell of JMM, however defended the the chief minister. “The BJP leaders in the state have no business left other than to stay in the news by making unfounded allegations against the democratically elected state government.”

And he added, "The benefit of the scheme will be provided to those card holders who have been provided cards by the previous Raghubar Das government."

Praduman Choubey