New railway lines for Kerala, Karnataka via TN.

Three Lok Sabha MPs have jointly written a letter to Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge to immediately order for a fresh engineering survey for laying a new railway line between Nilambur in Kerala's Malappuram district and Karnataka's Nanjagud in Mysore district via The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.

This project, when implemented, would save the rail travel distance between Kanyakumari and New Delhi by 450 km and between Thiruvananthapuram and Bangalore by 250 km, the MPs - A Raja (elected from the Nilgiris, TN), M.I. Shanavas (Wayanad, Kerala) and R. Dhruva Narayana (Chamraj Nagar, Karnataka) - said in their letter. Besides, over two crore people in the area would get benefited.


THE HINDU