Former Union minister Gopinath Munde (File) Former Union minister Gopinath Munde (File)The Beed Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra has passed a resolution seeking naming of the Parli-Beed-Ahmednagar railway line after former Union minister Gopinath Munde. Among Munde’s three daughters, one is a state minister while another is a Lok Sabha member from Beed. The Railways have initiated work this year on the railway line between Parli and Beed, which is part of the long-pending Parli-Beed-Ahmednagar project, with a deadline of 2019 in mind. Railways minister Suresh Prabhu in June laid the foundation stone of the Parli-Beed-Ahmednagar track in Parli in the presence of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Gopinath Munde’s death anniversary. The Parli-Beed-Ahmednagar railway route has a financial outlay of Rs 2,272 crore.

Source: Indian Express August 12, 2017 09:00 UTC