The ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday urged the central government to allot the revenue generating parts of Waltair division, currently of the East Coast Railway (ECoR), to the newly-created South Coast Railway zone (SCoR) with Vishakhapatnam as its headquarters.Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday announced that the Indian Railways will create a new zone named SCoR with its headquarters in Vishakhapatanam.The SCoR zone will comprise of existing divisions -- Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada. The Waltair division will be split into two -- one to be incorporated in the new zone by merging with the neighbouring Vijayawada division while the other will be converted into a new division with its headquarter at Rayagada in Odisha.Taking to its Twitter handle, the TDP alleged that "by giving the revenue-generating parts of Waltair Division to Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again pulled the chain to stop Andhra Pradesh's development."On Wednesday, the TDP ...
