New Delhi: Breaking his three years of silence, Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar finally asked his first question in the Parliament, on Monday.
Tendulkar was made a Rajya Sabha Member on June 3, 2012 and after three years, he shot his first written question to the Minister of Railway about the Mumbai Metro.
“Will the Minister of Railways be pleased to state the rationale behind creating a new zone for Kolkata Metro and whether it can be replicated in other cities such as Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi that also have similar suburban rail services; the criteria that a suburban railway system must fulfil to enable it to be notified as a separate zone; and whether the above three cities fulfil that criteria and are eligible for being notified as separate zones?” the question read.
However, the Railways ministry replied in negative stating that the Kolkata metro service is one-of-a-kind stand-alone system on Indian Railways (IR), which operates only Metro services.
“After taking this into consideration along with operational, administrative and other factors, the zonal railway status was granted to Metro Railway, Kolkata to help this organization in its operations and in further expansion. In the Indian Railway system operational in other cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the suburban railway traffic is run along with the mainline traffic”, the reply said.
The batting legend has been criticised in the past for his poor attendance in the Parliament.
