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Konkan Railway Corporation Limited volition undertake a feasibility survey for spot doubling of its way web betwixt Mangaluru (Thokur) and Byndoor successful Karnataka, and Majorda (Goa) and Vaibhavwadi Road (Maharashtra) successful a bid for capableness augmentation.
The corp has invited bids for carrying retired a feasibility survey of the Thokur-Mookambika Road Byndoor (112 km) and Majorda-Vaibhavwadi Road (151 km) sections astatine an approximate outgo of ₹1.31 crore. While the past day for submitting a bid is October 14, KRCL expects the palmy bidder has to transportation retired the survey wrong 3 months of the appointed date.
Konkan Railway has already doubled a portion of its web betwixt Roha and Veer (47 km) successful 2021. With the projected spot doubling connected 2 sections, the full treble enactment successful its web volition summation to 310 km retired of the full astir 741 km network.
Doubling inevitable
KRCL Chairman and Managing Director Santosh Kumar Jha told The Hindu that spot doubling has go inevitable successful presumption of the accrued request for operating freight and rider trains. A mates of years ago, the Railway Ministry had not approved KRCL’s connection for spot doubling of 141 km agelong with 18 caller stations.
Notwithstanding the earlier rejection, the corp would get the feasibility survey done on with an estimation of the outgo for spot doubling. Thereafter, the corp would question contributions from the 4 stakeholder States — Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala — towards the superior expenditure, Mr. Jha said.
Recently, with the publication of the Karnataka government, KRCL had undertaken implicit renewal of astir 200 km of way successful the State, the CMD said.
Relatively level terrain
The web nether the projected spot doubling has nary tunnels betwixt Thokur and Byndoor portion determination are 3 tunnels connected the Majorda-Vaibhavwadi section.
Mr. Jha said the Ministry has already approved KRCL’s connection to conception a parallel passageway astatine Pernem successful Goa nether the information enactment category. In this process, the existing passageway that often witnesses water-logging would beryllium strengthened, too constructing a parallel tunnel. The corp would instrumentality a telephone connected 2 different tunnels — successful Old Goa and successful Verna — connected this conception soon.
The 741-km KRCL web has 92 tunnels with the bulk of them located successful Maharashtra betwixt Veer and Vaibhavwadi Road.
