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The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for way doubling of the Thanjavur-Nagapattinam-Karaikal wide gauge conception has been prepared. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said this successful a written to reply to an unstarred question by DMK Rajya Sabha subordinate S. Kalyanasundaram recently.
Mr. Kalyanasundaram had sought to cognize from the Railway Minister the contiguous presumption of the long-pending request for doubling the Thanjavur-Villupuram wide gauge section. The MP wanted to cognize if the doubling of way betwixt Thanjavur and Mayiladuthurai was apt to beryllium completed earlier Mahamaham 2028.
The Railway Minister said: “Survey for doubling the Villupuram-Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur conception has been sanctioned for mentation of the DPR. To further amended connectivity successful the region, survey for Thanjavur-Nagapattinam-Karaikal doubling (96 km) has besides been sanctioned and the DPR has been prepared.”
The Minister said aft mentation of the DPR, sanctioning of the task requires consultation with assorted stakeholders, including the State government and indispensable approvals specified arsenic appraisal of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Finance. As sanctioning of projects is simply a continuous and dynamic process, nonstop timelines could not beryllium fixed.
The Thanjavur-Tiruvarur-Nagapattinam-Karaikal conception is simply a azygous enactment agelong covering parts of the delta region. Rail users of this portion person been consistently seeking the railway authorities to accord aboriginal support for doubling the Thanjavur-Karaikal conception arsenic this would yet effect successful instauration of much rider trains.
The azygous enactment conception witnesses cognition of rider and freight trains transporting ember from the Karaikal larboard to antithetic destinations. “The Thanjavur-Karaikal doubling task is decidedly the request of the hr arsenic it would heighten bid connectivity for the obstruction users successful Nagore, Nagapattinam, and Tirunallar,” said A. Giri, secretary, Thanjavur District Railway Users’ Association. Further, way doubling would heighten services to confederate and occidental destinations, Mr. Giri added.
“The railway medication should accord precedence and assistance aboriginal support for the Thanjavur-Karaikal doubling task and allocate capable funds for its execution and timely completion”, said S. Mohan, president, Nagore Nagapattinam Rail Users Association.
Track doubling would pb to instauration of much trains arsenic determination was a precise precocious request close present from the obstruction users of Nagore, Nagapattinam, and Karaikal to supply connectivity to destinations specified arsenic Madurai, Tirunelveli and Coimbatore, Mr. Mohan said.
