Summary:
A meeting was organised on Saturday evening between various passenger associations and the Union Railway minister Piyush Goyal for the same. The passenger associations have demanded a faster implementation of projects from the Indian Railways. "I will collect these set of demands made by the passenger associations and hand it over to the railway minister," said BJP leader Ashish Shelar who attended the event. "There are areas beyond Virar and Kalyan where lakhs of people use the railway services but there is an increased need to augment railway infrastructure there." For instance, the passenger associations from Thane wanted the completion of 5-6 lines on Thane-Diva apart from adding trains on the Kalyan-Karjat/Kasara sections..