§ MR. REESTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India contemplates the inclusion of a feeder line connecting Sylhet with the Assam Bengal Railway in its railway programme for the forthcoming year.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) An estimate for a section of such a line, from Kalaura station to the Kooseara River was sanctioned in 1906, and 1720 a sum of Rs. 3,52,000 was allotted to this work for expenditure in 1907–8. The grant that will be allotted for the forthcoming year will be shown in the usual statement of capital expenditure on railways published with the Financial Statement of the Government of India.