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Petition demanding Suburban Rail was submitted to new Railway Minister !
Written By kbsyed61 - 30 June, 2014
Bangalore CRS Bengaluru public transport Commuter rail Suburban Rail
Many thanks to all those who signed the petition and supported the latest campaign demanding Suburban Rail Service. With help coming from as far as United Sates, Australia, Europe, Singapore and Middle East, the petition got about 2300+ on-line signatures and 3000+ hard copy signatures.
Yesterday, in the morning around 9 AM, the Namma Railu supporters met the new railway minister, Shri. Sadananda Gowda at his residence in Bengaluru and submitted the signed petition with 5000+ signatures. They all requested the railway minister to put his seal of approval on this project and set the ball rolling for its speedy implementation.
The group consisted of Mr. Sanjeev, Hemanth of Praja-RAAG, Prof Rajeev Gowda, Ramprasad, from Bengaluru Needs You!, Raghotam Rao, representatives from Tumkur Prayanikare Vedike and Vikram Bichal from Prestige Shantiniketan Apartment Owner Association, Whitefield. It was a great show of all round support for the project.
The railway minister Shri. Sadananda Gowda has promised to include this in the upcoming railway budget. Let us hope and pray that he measures up to the promise.
COMMENTS
With further small step moving on the Commuter Rail Bangalore
Sanjeev - 11 July, 2014 - 09:49
With Formally Railway Minister taking action to move the Suburban Rail / Commuter Rail Bangalore after long time.
Already RITES report available and DPR work for Ph1A is prgoressing, in such case, GOK and Railway Minister should come to an argreement on Cost Sharing with SPV and proceed further.
During last 5 years, we have seen some action by Railways without any heart in the services :
1. MEMU shed with 13 Crore announced and now 5 Crore allocated in the budget
2. MEMU Train between Marikuppam - Bangalore July'2013
3. Passenger Express Train Tumkur - Bangalore July2013
4. Passenger Train Nelamangala - Bangalore March2013
5. Hindapur and Tumkur Trains made 7 days from 6 days.
6. Bangarpet - Bangalore April2012
7. Yesvantpur - Hosur 2 services March'2010
8. Yesvantpur - Devanhalli March'2010
9. Bangalore - Ramanagar MEMU 3 services announced in July'2014
10. Bangalore - Nelamangala DEMU announced in July'2014
11. Yesvantpur - Hosur DEMU announced in July'2014
12. Yesvantpur - Tumkur passenger announced in July'2014
Still how many Trains SWR wants introduce around Bangalore without accepting on Commuter Rail / Suburban Rail.
Same time, how many Reports / Surveys GOK and Railway Minister wants to justify so that project can get delayed in providing relief to Citizens.
Ultimately either Railways or State has any interest in getting this project to deliver true value to Citizens in Urban Transport. Let them play their Cat and Mouse game, we citizens will catch both Cat and Mouse to close the game.
amithpallavoor - 11 July, 2014 - 11:01
The real villain is the rail board. The railway minister has okayed the project and the State Government has okayed the formation of SPV and gone ahead as well. It is upto the rail board to say yes to the SPV now instead of behaving like School Prinicpals and being squeamish about everything.
amithpallavoor - 12 July, 2014 - 03:31
The persons who are going to be the lifeline of CRS are the Industrial workers and students. This is the case in Mumbai and Chennai as well.
We maybe able to create some awareness about CRS by distributing brochures at cycle day but there is the danger of this campaign becoming elitist.
The average IT folk is least bothered about CRS. He is more worried about the Metro and elevated roads.
We need to focus on workers from Automobile, Engineering and FMCG Industries. I have provided a sample list of units and educational institutions who could be contacted.
There are quite a few factories located close to railway stations or rail lines. Let us focus our efforts by making them aware of the need for CRS.
Petition submitted to Rail Minister.
devadas jeppu - 30 June, 2014 - 11:15
Congrats to Praja on successful petition campaign. A photo of petition submission may pl be uploaded onto change.org to inform all those petitioners the progress made
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