Minister clears Rs 250 crore for new station, Shiv Sena wants it to be named after Anand Dighe

Thane: The Shiv Sena wants the upcoming suburban railway station between Thane and Mulund to be named after Dharmaveer Anand Dighe, as decks for its completion have finally been cleared after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav approved Rs 250 crore for execution of the works, said party MP Naresh Mhaske on Monday.Mhaske shared a statement after he made the request for naming the station in Parliament and after Vaishnav approved the funds, following an earlier joint request made by him and MP Shrikant Shinde in 2024."The Rs 250 crore fund was approved by Vaishnav and the proposal was sent to the Railway Board. The work on the station will start soon. We also pushed the demand to name this station as Dharmveer Anand Dighe Station on behalf of our Sena chief leader and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde," Mhaske said.Work on the new station, which was designed to ease commuting problems for lakhs of fringe residents of Thane and Mulund, was delayed due to several reasons since 2015. The work was initially to be executed using Thane smart city funds, but considering the lean condition of the corporation, the MPs requested the railways to take over and finance the works.