Madhya Pradesh has the lowest average o f National highways and among the lowest rail coverage.Only when Madhavrao Scindia was the Railway minister that things marginally improved. Now that Kamalnath is the surface transport minister, we can hope for some relative improvemnt in road density. Talking of air connec tivity neither now nor in the forseeable future can M.P. come near the developed states.
In the light of the above, the state needs affirmative action to bring it at least to the national average. However, pardoxically in this year's rail budget ,M.P. recieved only cosmetic and symbolic dollops. Instead of longstanding demands of connecting Bundelkhand with rail lines ; Bhopal - Gwalior intercity train and Indore Bombay Turant besides making the Gwalior Bhind track broad guage the state has been given two world class stations ( Bhopal & Habibganj)- that too in the same city , few model stations and some new stoppages.The work of Lalitpur-
Singrauli rail line conitues at a snail's pace and no new trains have been introduced . It appears that only if and when we have a rail minister from the state that some justice woould be done to Madhya Pradesh.
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