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Long earlier the State was criss-crossed by highways that bridged the region betwixt assorted regions, it was the obstruction web that knitted the hinterland and provided the nexus to the larger satellite beyond.
And for the quaint colony of Jambagaru, it was the metre guage obstruction that helped unfastened up the vistas to the Malnad portion and connected it with the plains.
This portion of history, which is accelerated eroding from nationalist memory, came to airy again erstwhile the Mysuru Division of the South Western Railway precocious celebrated Station Mahotsav astatine Sagar Jambagaru station.
Constructed successful 1938-39, the presumption was known by the codification S.R.F successful the metre gauge era, portion Talaguppa was TLGP.
According to the railway authorities, the enactment was laid to determination Malnad’s resources and aboriginal became indispensable during the Linganamakki Dam works, making the railway not conscionable a mode of question but portion of the region’s improvement story.
It was established by the past Mysore State Railways and is simply a arrogant awesome of however obstruction connectivity shaped the social, economic, and taste beingness of the Malnad region.
A lesser-known information is that the station’s humanities value is intertwined with royal and nationalist milestones to a definite extent. The hold of the railway enactment from Anandapur to Sagar successful 1938 coincided with the sojourn of Sir Mirza Ismail. In 1949, Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar arrived astatine Sagar by bid to inaugurate the Mahatma Gandhi Power Plant and aboriginal visited Jog Falls.
As the lifeline of the region, Sagar Jambagaru Railway Station received newspapers, postal mail, and regular essentials that arrived by train, connecting the municipality to the extracurricular world.
The presumption besides hosted respective eminent personalities, including Dr. Rajkumar, and galore others who utilized the Station’s impermanent lounge during their visits.
Though metre gauge operations ceased successful 1994 owing to gauge conversion, the railway’s enslaved with the portion endured. A two-coach obstruction autobus followed, and sustained efforts by a Broad Gauge Committee led by N. D’Souza resulted successful the instauration of the Mysuru–Sagar Intercity Broad Gauge bid successful 2011. Today, 10 trains run connected the route, serving not conscionable Sagar but passengers from Sirsi, Siddapura, Hosanagara, Soraba, Kumta, Honnavar, and Bhatkal.
Station Mahotsav, an Indian Railways inaugural to item presumption practice and nationalist service, is an effort to amended younger generations astir the railways’ relation successful nation-building, said the authorities.
Folk and movie creator Lakshmi Ramappa Gademane and retired railway worker Ramadas P.D. were felicitated, portion students of Nirmala Girls High School presented taste programmes.
Railway officials, retired employees, artists, and members of the nationalist attended the event, which concluded with a renewed resoluteness to sphere the affluent bequest of Sagar Jambagaru Railway Station for aboriginal generations.
