With the laying of new tracks, potato and peppermint growers would be benefited, he said, adding that it was his belief that Amethi should be connected to the rest of the country.
“By connecting food park, in future potato growers would be able to send their chips to rest of the country from Fursatganj,” he said.
Gandhi earlier laid the foundation of 67-klong Uchahar-Salon-Amethi rail line to be built at a cost of Rs 380 crore and Lucknow-Pratapgarh and Lucknow-Sultanpur trains. Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said that Northern railways had spent Rs 4,800 crore in this region.
(With PTI inputs)
