Bangalore, February 265, 2013:
The Railway budget is totally disappointing for Karnataka as most of the projects proposed by the State have not been considered, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said, slamming the “injustice”.
The average National Railway density is 24 per cent whereas it’s only 16.9 per cent in case of Karnataka. Tamil Nadu has a railway density of 31 per cent, according to Shettar. “Neglecting this aspect of less railway density in Karnataka, Union Railway Minister has failed to sanction new rail routes and trains to Karnataka. Karnataka is the only state which is providing land and 50 per cent of the cost of new railway projects. In spite of this, it is regrettable that the demands of the state have been sidelined”, he said.
Out of the seven new railway projects requested by the State, only Gadag-Wadi, Srinivaspur-Madanpalli, Chikkaballapur-Puttaparti lines have been approved. The remaining proposals — Gadag-Haveri, Kadri-Puttaparti,Dharwad-Belgaum and K R Nagar-Kushalanagar — have not been considered. The State’s request to undertake Bijapur-Shahabad, Talaguppa-Honnavar and Hubli-Ankola projects on PPP basis has also been not considered.
“We had requested to include the railway projects pertaining to Tiptur-Dudda, Gadag-Mundargi-Harapanahalli, Mangalore-Gulbarga, Alamatti-Koppal, Alamatti-Yadgir, Bijapur-Athani, doubling of Bangalore-Mangalore, Bangalore-Sirdi, (via Tumkur, Davanagere, Hubli, Bagalkote, Bijapur), Raichur-Bagalkote, day train for Bangalore-Mangalore (via Mysore). It is regrettable that none of these projects have been sanctioned”, he said.
Though the movement of a few trains has been extended, it is more beneficial to the other states as the distance extended is very small, Shettar said. “On the whole, instead of addressing our earlier grievance, Union Railway Minister has done further injustice of Karnataka”.
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FKCCI gives positive reaction on Railway Budget 2013-14
Sri K Shiva Shanmugam, President, FKCCI complimented Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, Hon’ble Raiway Minister, GoI for prioritizing guarantee of safety and security in his Railway Budget 2013-14 proposals. He also welcomed the proposals on Green Initiatives, improving passenger amenities, third party audit and tie up with food testing laboratories for ensuring food quality, modernizing and upgrading existing infrastructure. Other tariff proposals such as setting up of Railway Tariff Regulatory Authority, Fuel Adjustment Component (FAC) linked revision for freight tariff to be implemented from 1st April 2013, abolition of enhanced reservation fee are welcome moves.
The President also appreciated the Honorable Minister for not increasing passenger fares.
The President is happy to know that a new coach factory has been proposed at Kolar and resumption of work on new line projects of Chickmagalur-Sakleshpur and Bengaluru–Satyamangalam have been announced. However, Mr. Shanmugam urged the Ministry to ensure immediate implementation and completion of the projects on a time bound manner. Some new lines, express and passenger trains, extensions of lines for Karnataka have been proposed in the Budget but the same too need to be realized at the earliest, the President said.
we are very much happy for the extensions of trains to historical Mysore city. But our representatives still neglected the the most neglected part of Hyderabad Karnataka i.e. Bidar. The only train 16593/16594 nanded -Bangalore connects with capital city Bangalore and other part of Karnataka. It is located at the top in Karnataka map but even after 6 decades of independence and republic it deprives a convenient measures of transportation either within the state or with in the country few train from hyd .
kindly requesting representatives and govt to consider the region in future
We are unhappy because our most important work of GADAG-HADAGALI-HARAPANAHALI.
This project are not considered and not sankshan money in the budget.