The wait for the realisation of the proposed Kanhangad-Kaniyooru rail link, that provides the easiest access to Bengaluru from north Kerala, continues with the State governments failing to shoulder 50 per cent cost to take up the project.
Land acquisition
A meeting of the Kanhangad Nagara Vikasana Samithi held here on Sunday criticised the Kerala and Karnataka governments for going slow on meeting the requisite fund for land acquisition even after making categorical assurances to do so.
Addressing the meeting, Samithi chairman P. Appukkuttan said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Minister in-charge of Railways Aryadan Muhammed had said that the Cabinet would pass a resolution to sanction the amount as a pre-condition laid by the Railway Ministry for giving green signal to the project, which did not find any mention in the railway budget.
The authorities have already submitted to the Southern Railway the survey report on the 91-km route.
