Shillong, Sep 15: The state government is neither closing nor forcing the railway project.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Conrad said the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is open to the project.
“There is no question of closing it but there is no question of forcing it also”, Conrad said.
“In the meantime, certain funds were parked for a certain project and since it is not moving forward obviously the Government of India will ask questions how long will you keep this money. So either we give it back or we divert it to another project within the State itself and try to utilize that money so that it doesn’t go to waste and hence, we are exercising and trying to find out if there are other regions in the State, who would be open to the idea of a railway and that exercise has started,” Conrad said.
