In spite of having nothing much to cheer about, the Railway budget has focused on the core limitation of the railway network in Kottayam by allocating funds for the doubling works.
The budget has provided Rs.32 crore for the doubling works on the Mulanthuruthy-Kuruppanthara reach and another Rs.15 crore for the Kuruppanthara-Chingavanam reach. The work on road over bridges (ROB) at Kumaranallore , Moolavattom and Cartias have also found mention in the budget, said Jose K Mani MP.
The ROB at Kumarallore has been allocated Rs.80 lakh while the one at Moolavattom received Rs.35 lakh.
The budget provides Rs.20 lakh for the ROB at Thellakom. The budget has also allocated token amount for the coach terminal at Kottayam which was announced during the last budget.
Keywords: Kerala, Railway budget, Doubling works, ROBs, Fund allocation
Kerala MPs,State level Ministers and Central Ministers from Kerala
shed crocodile tears whenever Rly Ministry neglects/do injustices to
Kerala. Why E. A hammed preferred External affairs to Railways ?. No
political party irrespective of the state they represent would be
willing to be relieved from Rly portfolio. Why Kerala require another
Dy Minister ship of External affairs when Vialar Ravi, Pravasi affairs
already hailing from Kerala is also actually related to External
affairs?. Had one of the present MOSRs been from Kerala, Kerala would
have never met such an injustices in the present Rly Budget. People of
Karnataka have been agitated against the proposal to extend trains
running between Mangalore-Bangalore etc to Kozhikode, similarly
,people of TN are not willing the extension of Kovai Express to
Palakkad/Shornur . According to new Rly Budget,, Parasuram Express
and Intercity express would be extended Nager Coil and coimbatur
respectively, to satisfy Tamil Nadu politicians. More over, the
proposed two MEMUs appears to be sanctioned for Kerala in this
Budget ,is actually facilitate TN passengers, as ninety percentage
of its usages/operations of these trains pass through ar TN .
MPs belonged to Malabar region ,
including Central ministers from this area, never bothered about the
continuous neglect of their area by successive Rly Ministries, since
independence of India, as they seldom travel by trains but in planes
only.. While Travancore people are gifted with two trains for
Bangalore( including augmentation of frequencies of service of
existing train) in this budget, Malabar people did not get any train
to Bangalore. While Travancore people got some New Rly projects whose
impact in state would be negligible, the long cherished Talassery-
Mysore Railway Line , pending since the time of British rule and
considered most profitable route among Southern region, did not find
sanction in this Railway Budget too,may be due to the lobbying of bus
operators plying between Kozhikode/Talassery/Kannur etc and
Bangalore/Mysore. opposing the Line for fear of affecting their
business adversely
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