THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: States should come forward for cost-sharing of rail development projects, so as to ensure pooling of necessary funds and also bringing down the time-frame for implementation of a project, opined K H Muniappa, Union Minister of State for Railways here on Monday. He added that Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were already on the track by earmarking up to Rs 1000 crore in the annual state budget for rail projects in their states from last year, while Maharashtra and Jharkhand had also followed suit.
