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Mangalore: 'Superfast Train from City to Bangalore via Arasikere soon' - Moily

  •   Thu, Dec 13 2007 01:58:06 PM

Mangalore: 'Superfast Train from City to Bangalore via Arasikere soon' - Moily  

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR)  

Mangalore, Dec 13:   In a press meet convened here on Wednesday December 12 the chairman of Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) and former chief minister M. Veerappa Moily revealed that the union railway minister Lalu Prasad had promised him, that he would ensure the creation of a separate railway division, with the city as its headquarters.  

Moily informed the media persons assembled here, that this assurance had been given by Prasad during his visit to the city to inaugurate the much publicized Mangalore-Bangalore train on December 8. He had told Prasad that by creating such a division, help in ensuring more goods transport through the new broad gauge line (Mangalore-Hassan).  

Moreover, plans were on the anvil to put in place a Rs. 120-crore conveyor belt to ensure direct loading of iron ore into ships at the New Mangalore Port Trust. The proposed Mangalore division would emerge as the most lucrative of all the divisions and propel growth in the region, Moily declared elatedly.  

Further, he informed that the union railway minister had also given an assurance to start bus services and shuttle train services on the Karwar-Udupi-Mangalore, Subrahmanya-Mangalore and Mangalore-Kasargod and Kannur sectors from the city. Arrangements were being made to introduce a super-fast train to Bangalore via Arsikere. And therefore he had urged the governor Rameshwar Thakur to sanction a special grant of Rs. 40 crore towards various developmental projects in the city.  

On the other hand, there are also plans afoot by the Union ministry for agriculture and animal husbandry for an outlay of Rs. 290-crore for building a sea-wall from the city to Karwar. While with regard to Ullal, a technical report is now available for a Rs. 45 crore scheme to build another wall, he informed. He however, rued that the State Government had failed to send a Rs. 30 crore proposal to undertake breakwater scheme in the coastal region and hence urged the Governor to look into it.  

Also, there is a proposal to take up a parallel fisheries road network along the coast at a cost of Rs. 500 crore, Moily added. 

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  • Siva, usa

    Sun, Dec 16 2007

    Onji chaku-buku rail buDyere aath Bhanga aanD. ithe nanala malla rail buDondhullar. keNere yeDDe aapunDu. He has cleverly not divulged the date of start of Superfast train - to escape the criticism later. Probably it may start in 2050 or so..Moreover, he did not tell how fast the "superfast" train will be. If it is less than 'Express' train, then it may take 14 hrs to reach Bangalore.

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  • Venance A.J.Crasta, Udyavara / Bangalore

    Sun, Dec 16 2007

    Super fast Train from Bangalore-Mangalore is required as the earliest and same has to be extended up to Karwar or Goa. Mangalore Division has to be created and to be affiliated to South-Westeren Zone. Separate Local Trains from Puttur to Karwar has to be introduced to the benefit of local people of the Coastal Region and for the over all Developement, movement of people for search of job, business etc. We hope for the better days for Coastal people who so far migrating to other cities, countries for the daily bread earning.

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  • Waleed, Mangalore

    Sun, Dec 16 2007

    I don't understand without materilising the Magalore - Kuwait flight sector.. These so called politicians are going for more assurance ( It may be recalled that Mr. Veerappa Moily himself had disclosed the fact that there will be direct flight from Mangalore to Kuwait by the mid of this month).

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