Karnataka Govt. wake up. Don’t allow Karnataka air-space for survey The proposed Railway line from Thalassery via Wayanad in Kerala to Mysuru via H.D. Kote, Kadakola and Mysuru will destroy pristine forests of Western Ghats causing irreparable and permanent damage to the ecology of the rain-bearing forests and destabilising the earth-crust of the geographical area…
Forest Department red flags Thalassery-Mysuru Rail Line
May 8, 2021State Government applies brakes on project citing irreparable damage to the ecology Mysore/Mysuru: Following an adverse report by the Karnataka Forest Department that pristine forests of Western Ghats (in South Kodagu and Mysuru) will be destroyed if the proposed Thalassery-Mysuru project is implemented, the State Government has stalled the project and has conveyed the same…
Kerala-Mysuru rail link: New route with a tunnel proposed
December 5, 2020Mysore-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…
Thalassery-Mysuru Rail line not scrapped
February 23, 2020Minister Piyush Goyal states in Lok Sabha that DPR has been prepared; decision to be taken by Karnataka, Kerala Mysore/Mysuru: The Indian Railways has not scrapped the controversial Thalassery-Mysuru Railway line via the green swathes of Kodagu. In a reply to a question raised in Lok Sabha on Feb. 5, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said…
Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line echoes in Parliament: Get eco clearances first, Centre tells Kerala MP
January 11, 2019New Delhi: Elected representatives from Kerala seem to be lobbying hard for the implementation of the controversial Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line that will pass through lush green forests in South Kodagu despite opposition to the project from residents of Kodagu and Mysuru and environmentalists. MPs from the neighbouring State have been raising this issue in Lok…
PIL against Railway lines via Kodagu: High Court gives two weeks to Govt. to make its stand clear
July 27, 2018Government has to either say Yes or No to the project or it must say that the project is under consideration or underway NOTE: The Railway Ministry’s ‘advice’ to the Kerala government to ‘seek specific approval’ from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to carry out a survey for the proposed Thalassery-Mysuru…
Kerala CM’s office pushed for Thalassery-Mysuru Project
July 27, 2018Meanwhile it has now come to light that Railway Ministry had ‘advised’ the Kerala government to ‘seek specific approval’ from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to carry out a survey for the proposed Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line. The Ministry’s directive came in the wake of the Kerala government requesting the Ministry to…
State has not permitted any survey in Kodagu for Railway line: CM Kumaraswamy
July 12, 2018Bengaluru: The State Government has not accorded permission to anybody to conduct a survey on the proposed Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line via South Kodagu, said Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. He was replying to a question in the Legislative Council raised by MLC Sunil Subramani yesterday. The MLC had submitted a detailed question to the Speaker about…
Thalassery-Mysuru Railway line via South Kodagu: MP Pratap Simha meets CM H.D. Kumaraswamy; requests him not to approve project
July 10, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha met Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru this morning and requested him not to bow to pressures from the Kerala Government regarding the proposed Thalassery-Mysuru Railway line that will pass through lush green forests in South Kodagu. In a letter to Kumaraswamy, Pratap Simha said that it was clear that…
Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line via South Kodagu: Centre to provide 20% funding – Union Minister Alphons
July 4, 2018Mysuru: Even as Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal repeatedly saying that Centre has shelved the vexatious Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line project via South Kodagu which has run into opposition from elected representatives, environmentalists and people of Kodagu district, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Information Technology K.J. Alphons has said that the Centre will support…
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