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Written By silkboard - 4 December, 2012
Bangalore CRS PIL Namma Railu Commuter rail
Friends, some of us have discussed possibilities of filing a PIL for seeking closure or accelerating work on Commuter Rail Service (CRS) for Bengaluru. At this point, we are not entirely sure how well or fast the project is moving. Going by some reports, there is good progress. But there aren't many official (as in from Railways, or GoK, or IDD) statements on status and next steps for the project.
Filing a PIL means investment of time, and also money. A PIL may antagonize some government agencies Namma Railu project team has been working with.
Also, how would we write this PIL. What "public interest" will we try to highlight? Who all will we name in this PIL? Namma Railu team has done a lot of howework as well as spade work for CRS. But will that be enough, or would we need to file a few more RTIs to get some more facts out in written (like - current status of DPR on CRS, from IDD?) and include the responses in the PIL.
I am just making a post to seek everyone's thoughts and ideas.
cheers,
SB aka Pranav
COMMENTS
kbsyed61 - 13 December, 2012 - 17:20
WP is Type of Case, i.e. Writ Petition
sanjayv - 14 December, 2012 - 01:33
Yes, you had expanded WP in your earlier post itself. Question was... what is the Writ Petition asking for? Is there some case going on in a lower court? What is that case?
I could not find any details on the HC website.
devadas jeppu - 14 December, 2012 - 04:51
Having got this support/or no support from executive & political sections so far, it may be better to elicit an opinion from judiciary. We may put forward our views based on necessity of a mass transport system for the mega city. Also reckless development of roads is not the solution as city has already started degenerating environmentally.
Could not resist jumping in and commeting after seeing the question posed.
I am AGAINST a PIL to force commuter rail. Getting commuter rail going or not is a policy decision. There is nothing inherently illegal in either having commuter rail or not having commuter rail. Therefore, in my opinion, this is not a matter for courts to decide and rule on. If you try to frame a case, a prayer for a PIL, i think the above point will clearly get highlighted.
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