Finally, work on the much-awaited Chikhloli suburban local railway station has moved ahead. Senior officials from the local administration and Railways assessed the land required for the project on September 2 and the work on Joint Measurement Survey for land acquisition started on September 8.

Dr Shrikant Shinde, MP, Kalyan, said, "Yes, we were pushing the project for quite a while and I had also raised the issue in the Zero Hour of Parliament. Local MLA Dr Balaji Kinikar accompanied senior officials at the site of the proposed station and the process of land acquisition has now formally begun. We will see that it gets completed within the next three years."