The Railway Ministry accorded approval for the estimates for the railway midlife coach factory near Panchalingala village in Kurnool mandal and initiated the tender process for Rs. 281.35 crore in June, said Kurnool MP Butta Renuka on Thursday.
The MP and an eight-member team of officials of the Patna railway workshop inspected 123 acres and works to be taken up from Alampur Road railway station in Mahabubnagar district to E. Thandrapadu and Panchalingala in Kurnool district.
Chief Accounts Officer Finesh Kumar, Chief Mechanical Engineer Sunil Kumar, Chief Engineer II S.K. Singh, Deputy Senior Superintending Engineer V.K. Srivatsava, Deputy CE R.K. Singh, Secretary to the CAO Kumar Ashish, all from Coach Mid Life Rehabilitation (CMLR) in Patna in Bihar, and Deputy Chief Engineer of Kurno A.K. Sarma participated.
The MP urged the railway officials to commence the midlife coach factory and rehabilitation workshop works soon and complete it in the next two and half years.