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Improving safe travel first priority, new projects later: Rly minister

Union minister of state for Railway Adhir Ranjan Chawdhury today said the Centre was giving importance to improving safety aspect of train travel and improvement of infrastructure vis-a vis taking seven new projects immediately.

In a brief chat with reporters at the airport here on his arrival from New Delhi en route to Puducherry to flag off a new train service to Mumbai from Pondy, he said acquistion of land and encroachment of Railway land was the main reason for railway projects worth about Rs two lakh crore pending. However, steps were being taken to clear these hurdles, he informed.