Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced a slew of projects,including expansion of Chittaranjan Locomotive Works,for West Bengal. The Railways would invest Rs 92.5 crore in CLW in the first phase to ramp up its production capacity to 200 engines annually from the current 150 and the expansion work would be over by 2012,Banerjee said at a programme held at a wagon manufacturing unit in Kulti. In the second phase,Rs 134 crore would be invested to boost its capacity to 275 engines,she said,adding that the Railways had placed an order of Rs 195 crore with the company. "If there is a will,there is a way. Development cannot be made with the help of guns," Banerjee said taking a dig at the Left Front government. The Railways will set up a wagon manufacturing unit at Andal and a power plant at Adra. The wagon industry would also come up at Haldia while the Railways would build an AC plant at Budge Budge,she said. A mid-life coach rehabilitation unit will be set up at Anara for which the foundation stone would be laid tomorrow,the minister said,adding that the Railways required a huge number of coaches and wagons and that is why the ministry had decided to set up its own coach and wagon units.
