Indian Railways renames Naugarh to Siddharthnagar Railway Station – Burning Issue – Free PDF

NAME CHANGED

• The Yogi Adityanath government has changed the name of Naugarh railway station to Siddhartha Nagar railway station.
• According to Principal Secretary PWD Nitin Ramesh Gokaran, a notification in this regard was issued on Thursday.

NAME CHANGED

• Earlier, the state government changed the name of the Mughalsarai railway station to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway station, Allahabad was renamed as Prayagraj and Faizabad as the Ayodhya district.
• Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jagdambika Pal said that there was no point in the railway station being named as Naugarh when the district was Siddhartha Nagar. “The name only added to the confusion among tourists. I had written in this regard to the Chief Minister,” he said.
• Pal said that the notification for the name change was issued after clearances were received from the Ministry of Home and Railways.

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• “Naugarh railway station was named Siddharthanagar in view of public aspirations due to the birth of Mahatma Buddha in Lumbini near Naugarh and being associated with his life events from this region,” Goyal said during the inauguration event.
• In the last 6 years in Uttar Pradesh, 460-km rail tracks were laid, doubling work was done on 531-km rail tracks, the gauge conversion of 489 km completed, Goyal said.
  “Similarly, the electrification of 4,683 km track was also completed.

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•  With this, the trains will be able to run at high speed and the environment will also be protected. In order to prevent accidents on unreserved crossings, all 1,404 unreserved crossings were abolished in Uttar Pradesh.
•  An Amount of Rs 10,600 crore was allocated to Uttar Pradesh in the last six years,” he said.
  The Railway Minister said that there has been an unprecedented improvement in freight loading.
  “The loading in September 2020 is almost 80 percent higher than the previous year.

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