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The Railway Board has recommended dividing the coastal railway enactment doubling task into 3 abstracted phases to velocity up execution, K.C. Venugopal, MP, has said.
On Friday, Mr. Venugopal visited 7 large railway stations successful the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency accompanied by a squad of elder railway officials. Following the visits, a reappraisal gathering was held to measure ongoing projects and aboriginal improvement prospects.
Estimated astatine 1,726 crore
The Alappuzha MP said that dividing the coastal railway enactment doubling task into 3 abstracted phases would enactment an extremity to the uncertainty that had persisted for the past 10 years. The full estimated cost, antecedently acceptable astatine ₹1,726 crore, volition present beryllium divided into 3 parts. The archetypal signifier volition screen the doubling of the 14-kilometre agelong from Ambalappuzha to Alappuzha. A elaborate introspection of the estimates for this conception is presently nether mode and the Detailed Project Report is expected to beryllium completed by January 2026. Subsequently, with the Railway Board’s approval, the adjacent steps volition beryllium taken, the Thiruvananthapuram Divisional Railway Manager informed the MP during the meeting.
The squad reviewed ongoing projects and improvement prospects astatine Karunagappally, Kayamkulam, Haripad, Ambalappuzha, Alappuzha, Cherthala and Thuravoor railway stations.
