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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
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.
Tejaswi KR - 16 December, 2012 - 12:03
I feel that the government is not willing to transfer the Binny Mills land to the railways, because of which the project could be delayed. GOK as it is, has been offering land free of cost to the railway projects in almost all regions of the state. Transfer of prime land in Bangalore whose value in the market could be several thousands of crores, may be something the government is averse to. While it is natural on the part of the state government to think so, it is quite clear that Bangalore needs a commuter rail hub developed in the vicinity of the city station. Hence the GOK must expedite land transfer at the earliest..
Railway was forced to obey the court order on Night Train to Kar
Sanjeev - 4 December, 2012 - 08:05
Was their any objection from Railway in starting night train from Bangalore to Karwar??
Railway outhorities never said no to extending the night Train to Karwar but never they did on their own and after court stick thru PIL, they extended the same within a week time even though advance booking of tickets were allowed for Kannur 120 days.
In case of CRS too, either Railway or GOK are not refusing and they are willing to do it but when is the Question now??? This is where we want court intervention for GOK & Railways.
Take the other case of Delhi Industires polluting and CNG making it mandatory in National Capital, finally Delhi High court has to force authorities to stick to the deadline.
Same way for CRS we would like GOK & IR to commit and start acting on the project instead of saying Binny Mill land issue need to be decided first??? , DPR, Feasibility report, Pre-feasibility report & we can add some more terminology in the project managamnet for this CRS to help GOK & IR to delay the implementation.
Now its inevitable for GOK & IR to take forward the CRS but they are finding ways to delay this project due to the invisible hands acting on CRS
CM needs courts to tell him what to do!
srinidhi - 5 December, 2012 - 12:19
"Judicial activism has been a boon for the government. Had the courts not passed strictures it would have been difficult for us to take some decisions . Many a time, the government faces political pressure and is unable to work. But directives issued by high court and Supreme Court enabled us to move forward," said Shettar, who was the chief guest at Advocate's Day celebration in HC.
more here
lets give him what he wants!
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.
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