Bangalore-Mysore double track to be ready by March.

Work on the on-going rail track-doubling work between Bangalore and Mysore would be expedited so as to be complete it by March 2015, Railway Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said in Mysore.

The 140-km track-doubling project, which was taken up in 2007, is partially complete, totaling about 91 km. It has been facing a hurdle chiefly over the shifting of a magazine, a monument of the 18th century meant for storing gun-powder at Srirangapatna, besides land and funds.

Gowda told reporters that all hurdles had been cleared and work would be speeded up. Improving rail traffic between the two cities would reduce the pressure on the road connecting Bangalore and Mysore. He admitted that the journey time of the trains between the two cities was a little longer and all efforts would be made to reduce the same.

The minister told reporters that no new proposals had been made in the Railway Budget to hasten the already sanctioned projects.

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