Mysore-Malabar Rail Road Action Council appeals Karnataka Government to consider the project
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore-Malabar Rail Road Action Council is generating public opinion in favour of Mysuru-Malabar Railway line that has Thalassery in Kerala and Kadakola in Karnataka near Mysuru as starting and ending points.
This comes in the wake of the earlier Thalassery-Mysuru Railway project via the green swathes of Kodagu and Bandipur National Park not materialising due to stiff opposition from environmentalists and even the Karnataka Forest Department.
Kerala had even proposed a tunnel via Bandipur for the Railway line to pass. This proposal too was rejected by Karnataka.
Now the Mysore-Malabar Rail Road Action Council, Kannur, has proposed a new route via Sultan Batheri from Thalassery to Kadakola that does not cut through forests. Instead, the line will pass through H.D. Kote, Antharasanthe border, and reach Bavali village from where the line proceeds towards Kerala.
22-kilometre tunnel
Addressing a press conference at H.D. Kote yesterday, Mysore-Malabar Rail Road Action Council’s Kerala Coordinator Umesh Pochappan claimed that the proposed new route will not cut through forests as a 22-kilometre tunnel has been envisaged at Antharasanthe Range of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Bavali and surrounding forests.
“We are not in favour of cutting trees and we are seeking the Governments of Karnataka and Kerala to follow the model of Konkan Railway where forest cover is not disturbed at all,” Umesh Pochappan he said.
The Kerala Government has already agreed for the project and a proposal has been sent to the Union Railway Ministry. “The Ministry has conveyed to us that if both Karnataka and Kerala agree, the Railways will implement the project. We request the Karnataka Government to consider the proposal,” he said.
The Action Council’s Karnataka Coordinator Shankar K. Muthu said that the project will not disturb wildlife or green cover in the Nagarahole National Park and also at Kabini backwaters. “We have conducted a survey with a helicopter and the report says that the tunnel will not damage environment. In the forest area, the Railway line will pass through a tunnel while in city areas, it will pass above ground,” he claimed.
Yet another route to flood Malayalees into Mysuru from the grossly overpopulated Kerala. This means that Malayalees who work in large numbers in Gulf States, and bring all kinds of contraband goods, not to speak of gold smuggling, will have a wider market in Mysuru and through it Bengaluru.
Why Kerala government is pushing this? There is no need for Mysuru to have this route to the corruption-infested Kerala. The motive is clear, the Malayalees see Mysuru as not that densely populated area-compared to their choking cities with humans, and they want to push their population into the City. They have verbose Tharoor ans that fat dimwit Rahul as their MPs. Yedi, the stupid CM stands no chance.
I pity those non-natives who arrived to the City after working abroad for years, established their residence, thinking that Mysuru was not a bad option environmentally-speaking. If this route materialises, with 5 years, Mysuru’s population will double.
It would just be a golden track for inflow of gulf investments. Already thousands of acres of agricultural land has gone into malayali lands for cultivation of ginger… it’s enough, no more loyalworlds, aroma bakers, dolphines, talchery hotels in Mysore please….
Where is so called Kannnada Sanghas, Vatal is governmentsleeping, why they are not protesting, this project which is helpful to Keralites, who all are migrating to Karnataka who all are already migrated many places for jobs, education and medical due to failure of their governments to provide all these in their mother state still they vote Communist