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A train service has been announced in last before year's budget between Mangalore Central and Shravanabelagola.  Still this train is not operational.

Shravanabelagola was supposed to be linked with Bangalore.  This project is in a limbo because of alignment issues at Kunigal.

Railways can think about constructing a station by avoiding Stud Form and calling it as Kunigal Station and has to take steps for early conversion of this link.

Since Bangalore has grown up, the people who are living in far flung areas as well as aged people, women and children find it difficult to reach station for availing early morning train facilties.  In view of this Railways should think about introducing trains starting between 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM and reaching destionations such as Hubli/Belgaum, Mangalore, Shimoga, Hubli, Chennai, Coimbatore by evening and vice versa.

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@ kumarvjn

Tha matter has been sorted out. See below link.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Kunigal-stud-farm-spared-rly-track/articleshow/6302676.cms

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This Hassan Bangalore line was started during Devegowda's PM time,  hope to see it opened  while he is alive.

Today's paper,  Blore Rural Dist. Commissionar has notified land  at Nelamangal  for Railway line to Hassan ( its samll area notified ).  This shows, their r serious land problems as the compensation declared with old rates ( 10 yrs down ). 

Due to highly subsidized passanger fares of IR,  major portion of infrastructure project work seems to be slowed down past couple of months,  this will further worsen  as fares will not be increased, thanks to Mamata & Lalu 

Its very much surprising to see that JDS 3 MP's do not even demand for early completion of this segment,  their r no strong letter written by three MPs or no follow up with either state or IR.

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Aiming to speed up the work on Pune-Nashik rail link, the Maharashtra government has decided to contribute 50 percent towards the cost of the Rs.1,900 crore project. Officials said that besides the Pune-Nashik link, the state government will also shell out 50 percent of the project cost for the critical Rs.928-crore Karad-Chiplun rail link. - - - This would help connect the western Maharashtra and the coastal Konkan region, separated by the Western Ghats. The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here Wednesday.

For the full report, click here

Shouldn't Karnataka also be following this route, for the many rail links (as well as track doubling, etc) required in the state, rather than wait indefinitely for a person from Karnataka becoming the Railway minister?

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To ensure speedy implementation of railway projects, the State government has decided to share the cost of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Indian Railways in the State.

The Government will share 50 per cent cost of all non-cost sharing railway projects (without the financial support of the State) and cost sharing will be done based on the present status of these projects.

For instance, if the Railways has already completed 20 per cent of a project, the remaining 80 per cent cost will be borne equally by the State and the Railways in coming days.

Presently, the Railways is implementing four projects without the support of the State. They are: Bangalore-Hassan, Kadur-Chikmagalur (both new lines), Arasikere-Birur (doubling) and Kolar-Chikkaballapur (gauge conversion). These projects have suffered delays, mainly due to paucity of funds.

The Government and the Railways have already jointly taken up six railway projects under the cost sharing system in the State. Besides, the Government has proposed four other projects to the Railways to be taken up under the same system.

Bangalore-Hassan line (166 km), for instance, has been delayed by nearly 15 years. The project was sanctioned in 1996 when H D Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister. But the Railways is still in the process of land acquisition. This new railway line has been proposed to pass through Shravanabelagola, Yediyur, Kunigal and Nelamagala.

The project will not only ensure a direct link to Mangalore, but reduce the distance to the coastal city by about 40 km. The Kadur-Chikmagalur line (93 km) too was sanctioned in 1996, but the work is yet to take off.

The Kolar-Chikkaballapur gauge conversion, which has been delayed by five years, is expected to help the development of backward Kolar district as the line will connect to the Bengaluru International Airport, officials said.

“The State badly needs a good railway network to boost its economy. Though a number of new projects have been taken up, there has been delay in their implementation especially those completely financed by the Railways. Hence, the Government decided to extend a helping hand to the Railways by way of sharing the cost. We hope that the four projects will now be completed in next two years,” Infrastructure Development department Principal Secretary V Madhu said.

Karnataka is lagging far behind other states as far as railway connectivity is concerned. The State has 3,250 km of railway network, as against 4,131 km in Tamil Nadu and 5,172 km in Andhra Pradesh. Similarly, the State has average 16 km of railway line per 1,000 sq km, as against 32 km in Tamil Nadu and 20 km in Andhra Pradesh. The national average is 20 km.

Burden

The Government, sources said, has to bear a burden of estimated Rs 300 crore by its move to share the cost of the four non-cost sharing projects. The State has set aside Rs 600 crore for railway development in 2010-11 budget, including ongoing and proposed projects.

This apart, the Government has decided to provide land for the proposed railway projects free of cost. So far, the Railways used to acquire the land for all the projects. “Land acquisition is another main reason for the delay. We want to clear this bottleneck too,” Madhu said.

Projects

* NCS to CS: Hassan-Bangalore (new line).
* Kadur-Chikmagalur (new line).
* Arasikere-Birur (doubling)
* Kolar-Chikkaballapur (gauge conversion)

* CS projects under implementation: Sholapur-Gadag (gauge conversion)
* Shimoga-Talaguppa (gauge conversion)
* Bangalore-Mysore (doubling)
* Kottur-Harihar (new line)
* Munirabad-Raichur (new line)
* Bidar-Gulbarga (new line).

* Proposed CS projects
* Shimoga-Harihar
* Whitefield-Kolar
* Davangere-Tumkur
* Gadag-Haveri.
(Note: Non-Cost Sharing (NCS), Cost Sharing (CS)

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