Railways withdraws 4Cr water Bill to Latur
posted on May 13, 2016 @ 8:05PM
The Ministry of Railways on Friday released a press release regarding theongoing water transportation exercise in drought-hit Maharashtra's Latur district and announced that the board will immediately withdraw a bill of Rs 4 crore sent to the state government for the effort.
The news of railways sending such a huge bill raised a lot of questions and later railways retracted from their earlier stand. Central Railway's general manager SK Sood had said, "We have sent the bill to the Latur district collector as per the administration's request."
After nine trips by a 10-wagon water train, a 50-wagon water train carrying 25 lakh litre water was later pressed into service. It was specially commissioned from Kota in Rajasthan to transport water to Latur.