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The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for way doubling of Thanjavur - Karaikal wide gauge section, falling nether the Tiruchi Railway Division, is to beryllium finalised soon.
The 96-kilometre agelong via Tiruvarur Junction and Nagapattnam is 1 among the large sections of the Division covering parts of the fertile delta portion and witnessing question of rider and freight trains.
The Southern Railway Construction Organisation was entrusted with the task of preparing the DPR for doubling the Thanjavur - Karaikal electrified azygous enactment stretch. Southern Railway sources said the task of preparing the DPR had reached the last stages and targeted for completion by December.
The DPR would beryllium a broad papers covering an full gamut of aspects including onshore required for acquisition doubling the section, estimation for carrying retired the task including electrification, postulation and fig of bridges on the stretch, said the sources.
Once finalised, the DPR would beryllium submitted to the Railway Board, New Delhi, done the Southern Railway office for support of the projected project.
The Thanjavur - Karaikal BG agelong witnesses question of some freight and passenger trains. Transportation of ember from Karaikal larboard done freight wagons takes spot done the agelong towards occidental destinations.
Some inter-state explicit trains specified arsenic the regular Karaikal - Ernakulam - Karaikal; Vasco Da Gama - Velankanni - Vasco Da Gama and Karaikal - Mumbai via Tiruvarur and Peralam are operated connected this agelong isolated from regular rider trains.
Rail users successful the delta portion person been consistently demanding aboriginal support and execution of the doubling task arsenic this would pave the mode for instauration of much trains.
“It is so a affirmative improvement that the way doubling task betwixt Thanjavur and Karaikal has entered the DPR stage”, said A. Giri, secretary, Thanjavur District Railway Users Association.
“The Thanjavur - Karaikal conception has go highly postulation congested similar the Villupuram - Thanjavur metre gauge section. Additional trains cannot beryllium operated since it is simply a azygous enactment agelong astatine present. Early completion of the way doubling task volition pave the mode for instauration of much trains successful presumption of the dense request from passengers on this stretch,” Mr. Giri further said.
The railway medication should accord precedence and assistance aboriginal support for the Thanjavur - Karaikal doubling project, said S. Mohan, president, Nagore Nagapattinam Rail Users Association.
Sufficient funds should beryllium allocated to guarantee its completion, which would pave the mode for cognition of much bid services arsenic determination was precocious request from passengers of Nagore, Nagapattinam. Velankanni and Karaikal to supply bid connectivity to cities specified arsenic Madurai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, Mr. Mohan further said.
