CHENNAI: DMK Parliamentary Floor leader TR Baalu has urged UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to prevail upon the Union Government allot more funds to the State in the upcoming railway budget, considering the ‘snail pace’ progress of the ongoing railway projects here, on Friday.According to a release, Baalu, who is also the Chairman, Standing Committee on Railways, met Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi in this regard, on the advice of DMK leader M Karunanidhi.He also pointed out that the projects sanctioned to the State were on at ‘snail’s pace’ due to inadequate funding. Baalu had also requested Sonia Gandhi to advise the Union Cabinet to sanction some new railway projects including a fourth terminal at Royapuram in Chennai in the ensuing Railway Budget 2012-13.In response, Sonia had also agreed to do the needful to the State to her best.Baalu also requested the Union Ministry to sanction Rs 870 crore towards eight works which include doubling works between Tanjore- Tiruchy and Villupuram-Chengalpattu, Villupuram-Tiruchy-Dindigul, new lines between Mannargudi - Pattukottai, and Vailankanni-Thirukuvalai-Thirutthuraipoondi, and construction of a third terminal at Tambaram.
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