Ghat section railway electrification facilitates cleaner, faster and reliable train operations between the coast and rest of Karnataka: MP Capt. Chowta

Dakshina Kannada MP Captain Brijesh Chowta has said the completion of Railway Electrification (RE) on the 55 km Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat agelong of Hassan-Mangaluru enactment enables cleaner, faster and much reliable bid operations betwixt the seashore and the remainder of Karnataka.

In a connection present connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025), Capt. Chowta said the improvement marks important advancement connected a long-pending railway infrastructure request of the region. The RE, helium said, improves enactment capableness and strengthens the instauration for introducing modern high-capacity services, including the Vande Bharat trains, which helium had been consistently pursuing for the region.

The MP said strengthening obstruction connectivity betwixt Mangaluru and Bengaluru, peculiarly crossed the Ghat section, had been a accordant absorption of his parliamentary and ministerial engagement since assuming office. Soon aft becoming an MP, helium submitted a elaborate representation to visiting Minister of State for Railways V. Somanna connected July 10, 2024, seeking respective railway-related works. They included the doubling and electrification of the Padil–Subrahmanya Road–Sakleshpur section, captious for improving rider convenience, freight question and determination connectivity.

He followed up the substance formally connected the level of the Lok Sabha connected December 11 and 18, 2024, by raising questions connected the issue. He raised the contented again successful February-March 2025. This was followed by a detailed practice to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw successful August 2025, which interalia highlighted the strategical value of the Mangaluru–Bengaluru corridor and the request to expedite pending infrastructure works.

At the section level, Capt. Chowta maintained sustained follow-up done DISHA meetings and coordination with railway officials, pressing for regular Divisional Railway Manager-level reviews to show advancement of railway projects successful Dakshina Kannada, with peculiar absorption connected expediting electrification and different pending upgrades connected the Mangaluru–Bengaluru enactment passing done the Shiradi Ghat stretch.

The MP expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Railways arsenic good arsenic to the officials and unit of Indian Railways for undertaking and completing the electrification enactment crossed 1 of the astir challenging ghat terrains successful the railway network.