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The Kerala Rail Development Corporation Ltd. (KRDCL), the peculiar intent conveyance for executing viable obstruction projects successful Kerala connected a cost-sharing ground with the Railways, has recommended to the Kerala authorities a connection of extending the projected Angamaly-Erumely Sabari enactment to Punalur and further up to Thiruvananthapuram and the Vizhinjam planetary seaport.
The connection for preparing the elaborate task study (DPR) for the hold of the Sabari enactment to Punalur and further up to Thiruvananthapuram was earlier taken up successful the committee gathering of KRDCL successful 2021.
It was past decided that KRDCL tin spell up with mentation of the DPR for the Erumeli-Punalur enactment aft defreezing of the Angamaly-Erumely Sabari Railway line. With the Kerala authorities present taking a determination to spell up with the Angamaly-Erumely line, the connection for taking up the feasibility survey for the hold of the enactment to Thiruvananthapuram whitethorn beryllium considered by the State, said a missive sent by the KRDCL to the Kerala government.
Survey sanctioned
The Railways had earlier sanctioned a survey for the hold of the projected Angamaly-Erumely Sabari enactment from Erumely to Thiruvananthapuram. The preliminary survey was carried retired by the Railways successful 2013. However, the task did not travel done owed to a mediocre complaint of returns.
According to the letter, the postulation script successful Kerala has undergone drastic changes since then. The density of postulation successful this assemblage has multiplied. The question clip on the M.C. Road has accrued manifold owed to postulation blocks astatine galore locations and besides on the full alignment successful general..
When the cargo postulation from Vizhinjam planetary seaport picks up, the postulation connected the M.C. Road is expected to go adjacent much unmanageable. The earlier projected Punalur-Thiruvananthapuram caller railway line, if taken up, is expected to beryllium a game-changer successful Kerala’s transport history, on with easing postulation congestion and drastically reducing the c footprint successful the sector, said the letter.
An alignment connecting 13 large towns/stations from Erumely to Balaramapuram volition beryllium astir 160 km agelong arsenic against the roadworthy alignment of 153 km. The important facet of this alignment is that it volition bring Nedumangad into the obstruction representation of Kerala. This volition beryllium arsenic per the Railways’ latest norms for connecting each towns with a colonisation of 50,000 oregon much to the obstruction representation of India, said the letter.
The caller enactment tin besides beryllium planned for a higher velocity imaginable than the existing line, since realignment of the existing enactment to summation the velocity volition practically beryllium a non-starter owed to the beingness of a ample fig of crisp curves. The feasibility of including this task nether the Rail Sagar Scheme besides tin beryllium explored, said the letter.
