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Lord Dalhousie put forward his famous Railway Minute in 1853.

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The above statement is true.
Lord Dalhousie put forward his famous Railway Minute in 1853. Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of colonial India when he put forward his famous Railway Minute in 1853. Railway Minute highlighted his programme for the development of railways. Dalhousie proposed a railway network of four main trunk lines to connect hinterlands with seaports. This network would have also interconnected various parts of the country. Bombay and Thane were connected by the colonial government's first railway line laid in 1853. By 1905, the government had about 45,000 km of railway line constructed in the country.

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