Further, the minister would lay stones for a couple of extension works at Jamalpur workshop, two new manned level crossing at Kharia Pipra Halt (between Ganganiyan and Kalyanpur road railway station) and between Akbarnagar and Maheshi railway stations, a wagon rehabilitation workshop at Barauni and would inaugurate a platform capable of handling a 24-coach train at Sultanganj.
Sources close to the minister said that Lalu also plans to spend a major portion of the forthcoming navratras in Bihar. “He would keep coming to Delhi in between, as and when needed,” said a source.