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What the region gets
Punjab: 5 New trains,
tracks
  Five
new express trains include Amritsar-Lalkuan Express via Chandigarh;
Bathinda-Jammu Tawi Express via Patiala, Rajpura; Chandigarh-Amritsar
Intercity Express via Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali), Ludhiana;
Delhi-Hoshiarpur Express; and Una/NangalbHazoor Sahib Nanded Express
via Anandpur Sahib
The
Dappar-Chandigarh line will be doubled
New
line to Talwandi Sabo
The Central
Government has burdened the common man with additional fare hikes
through the backdoor and announced no new facilities for the poor and
middle class passengers – PS Badal, Punjab CM
Haryana: Rail coach
factory is main gain
 Three
new rail lines
Sonepat
gets a coach-manufacturing unit; welding plant to be set up at Sampla
in Rohtak
A
survey of a railway link will be conducted between Hisar and Fatehabad
and Dadri to Harli via Jhajjar and Narwana-Uklana.
The
proposal to set up a rail coach-manufacturing unit in Sonepat and
introduction of new rail lines has fulfilled long-standing demands of
the state.
–BS Hooda, Haryana CM
J&K: Bonanaza for
Vaishno Devi pilgrims
A
multi-modal travel package to enable passengers to travel from Jammu
through Udhampur, Qazigund to Srinagar and Baramulla on a common
rail-bus ticket
Bansal
moots a proposal for issuing 'yatra parchis' to pilgrims travelling by
rail
Top
priority for Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla project
The budget seems to be
friendly. Since there were no hike in fares, it would help the flow of
tourists to J&K.–Abdul Hameed Punjabi,
Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Himachal: More
feasibility surveys
 Survey
of three new rail tracks, Amb-Kangra via Nadaun, Baddi- Bilaspur and
Dharamsala-Palampur rail lines, proposed
A
new weekly express train from Una or Nangal dam to Hazoor Sahib Nanded via Anandpur Sahib, Morinda, Chandigarh announced
New
links would give impetus not only to the economic growth and tourism
in the state, but would also go a long way in boosting industrial
activity
—Virbhadra Singh, Himachal
CM
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