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The Indian Railways has listed Irugur–Podanur doubling (10.77 km) astatine ₹277.42 crore among six large projects crossed the state to heighten capacity, information and operational efficiency.
The obstruction infrastructure projects were approved for eliminating congestion, enhancing enactment capacity, improving information systems, and enabling faster, much reliable rider and freight movement.
One of the astir important developments for Tamil Nadu is the support for the doubling of the Irugur–Podanur section, a important nexus connected the Chennai–Thiruvananthapuram corridor, the Railways has stated. This project, according to the Railways, would alteration cognition of 15 further rider trains per time and summation freight capableness by 3.12 cardinal tonnes per annum (MTPA), with yearly nett net expected to emergence by ₹11.77 crore.
The enactment capableness utilisation, presently astatine 60%, volition scope 131% by 2027–28 with the expansion.
The Railways has acknowledged urgency and strategical value of the project, citing the aggregate quadruplication projects already completed oregon nether mode connected adjoining stretches.
The doubling of this conception volition guarantee that the full Chennai–Coimbatore–Podanur loop transforms into a high-capacity, four-line corridor.
This volition straight payment concern hubs specified arsenic Coimbatore, amended terminal operations astatine Podanur, and enactment caller bid services to bluish destinations.
Two much projects pertaining to Southern Railway represent Alappuzha-Ambalapuzha doubling (12.66 km astatine a outgo of ₹324.16 crore) enabling 9 further rider trains per time successful each direction, adding 2.88 cardinal tonnes per annum (MTPA) of freight capacity, and generating further yearly net of ₹3.23 crore; and Palakkad Town–Parli Bypass Line (1.80 km astatine a outgo of ₹163.57 crore) that would destruct motor reversal astatine Palakkad Junction successful Kerala for aggregate bid services.
It would trim mean detention of rider trains by 40-44 minutes and cuts freight detention by up to 120 minutes per train, portion besides supporting further rider services planned from Palakkad Junction.
By streamlining bid movements, the bypass volition importantly amended punctuality connected routes connecting Shoranur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Pollachi, portion easing congestion.
With timely practice from State Governments, these projects volition construe into faster journeys, higher freight efficiency, improved safety, and sustained economical growth, the Railways has stated.
