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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
COCHIN, Nov. 23
The Railways volition present a play Jayanthi Janata explicit bid betwixt Cochin and Bombay from Jan.26 adjacent (Republic Day).
The frequence of the contiguous tri-weekly Jayanthi Janatha Express betwixt Mangalore-Cochin and New Delhi volition beryllium accrued to 5 days a week from Jan 26, 1976.
The Bombay-Madras Mail and the Bangalore-Cochin Island Express volition beryllium dieselised from the adjacent Republic Day.
An announcement to this effect was made present to-day by Mr. Mohamed Shafi Qureshi, Union Miniser of State for Railways portion inaugurating the 155.33-km agelong wide gauge nexus from Ernakulam to Quilon. Mr. Qureshi said this enactment represented an important railway nexus successful India for it would yet link Cape Comorin successful the South with Kashmir successful the North. He expressed the anticipation that the opening of this wide gauge enactment would bring successful much and much concern and economical prosperoty to Kerala.
Preliminary enactment connected the Rs. 13.59 crore conversion task inaugurated connected Dec.28,1971, by the erstwhile Railway Minister, Mr. K. Hanumanthaiya began aboriginal successful 1972. The Ernakulam-Quilon conception has present been thrown unfastened to postulation and the conversion of 64.81-km.long Quilon Trivandrum conception is expected to beryllium completed by June 1976.
Mr. Qureshi said Kerala possessed immense potentialities for further economical growth. helium was sure, therefore, that this wide gauge nexus from Ernakulam to Trivandrum, which would beryllium aboriginal extended upto Cape Comorin and Tirunelveli, would beryllium highly beneficial. He said the Railway Ministry had ordered 2 surveys for caller lines successful Kerala, the Alleppey-Ernakulam and Kuttipuram-Guruvayur-Trichur lines. He expressed the anticipation that these 2 projects would beryllium recovered viable and that the Railway Ministry would get the indispensable concern to execute them.
The Minister praised the Kerala Government. Mr. M.N. Govonada Nair, Transport Minister and the workers, engieners and unit who contributed to the timely completion of the work.
