Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh seeks broad rail link for south Haryana

Gurugram MP and Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh has taken up a rail development agenda for south Haryana with the Railway Ministry, pressing for faster station redevelopment, new halts, and safety infrastructure across his Lok Sabha constituency.

Among the key issues flagged is the seven-year delay in executing the Farrukhnagar-Charkhi Dadri rail line via Jhajjar — a 65-km stretch surveyed and approved in the 2015-16 Railway Budget, but yet to see ground work. He also renewed his 2021 demand for a washing line at the Rewari Junction, once India’s largest metre-gauge junction with rail links in six directions.

For the Rewari station, he sought halts for the Duronto Express, Rajdhani, Vande Bharat Bikaner and Sampark Kranti trains, foot-overbridges, and better upkeep of the station’s neglected steam engine heritage museum. At Pataudi Road station, he asked for restoration of the pre-Covid Ranichauri Express halt, additional stoppages, underpasses and a flyover.

The other demands include Sunday DEMU services to Farrukhnagar via Garhi Harsaru and Ichhapuri, extension of the existing foot-overbridge at Patli station, and a foot-overbridge near Gurugram’s Bhimgarh Kheri cremation ground.