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Rail link plan welcomed

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Pondicherry: The general secretary of the Pondicherry-based Dravida Peravai N. Nandhivarman has welcomed the plan of the Union Railway Ministry to have rail links from China via Vietnam, Myanmar and India to the United Kingdom. Describing this as a dream project of the Ministry Mr. Nandhivarman, who has written a letter to the Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, said that it was high time that Asian Union, Asian common market and Asian common currency took shape on the lines of European Union.

Highlighting the growth China had made in adding new tracks marking a twenty-four per cent growth he said in his letter that China had 58,000 route sq kms in 1992 as compared to 62,000-route km in India. Within a decade China had added about 24,000 km of new tracks and registered a 24 per cent growth to reach 72,000 kms as compared to India's one per cent growth.

The Chinese growth rate should give new impetus to the Railway Ministry to widen the rail links.

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