Year after announcement,no progress on 26/11 museum

Nearly a year after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced plans for a railway museum-cum-memorial for 26/11 victims.

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Nearly a year after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced plans for a railway museum-cum-memorial for 26/11 victims,Central Railway is yet to finalise details of the project. There has been no budgetary allocation and CR is now thinking of a private-public partnership.

In February,CR had sent a proposal to the Railway Board. The railway has now integrated the plan with a project of making CST a world class station announced the 2010-11 rail budget- but it has remained a plan.

The project will be executed on a PPP model and we are working out the details. We are yet to freeze the final plan, said Shriniwas Mudgerikar,spokesperson for CR. The railway has identified a spot at CST. The station had seen 57 persons killed on 26/11,including commuters,railway and police personnel. It is not yet clear whether the museum would have details about people killed at other sites attacked.

Last November,when Banerjee was in the city to inaugurate the commissioning of the first 15-coach rake for the Western Railway (WR),she had promised the museum-cum-memorial.

Every person who died had something to be said about,which has to be compiled in a museum. The museum would have all information on the victims: their life stories,and how the policemen and railway officials among them had resisted the terrorists. Banerjee had said.

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