Task force set up to study feasibility: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi: Union Railway Minister, Piyush Goyal, here on Monday once again reiterated that setting up of a Railway Zone in Visakhapatnam was under the active consideration of the Centre. Answering to the media queries in this regard on Monday, Goyal said a task force had been constituted to study the feasibility of setting up of the railway zone.

``As per the recommendations of the AP Reorganisation Committee, 2014, the Centre was expected to study the feasibility and no more. That was what the Centre was doing and the official committee was studying the issue in full,’’ he said.

As and when, they arrive at a positive conclusion, the Centre would go ahead further, he clarified. It may be recalled that constitution of a Railway Zone is one of the most contentious issues between the State and the Centre. The Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu, had not only been insisting on the same, but also raised the issue at the NITI Aayog meet the other day.

The Centre so far has not moved in that direction and has only constituted an official committee to study the objections being raised by Odisha government.