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Sunday, 13 December 2015

07:52

SAIL ready to take up Palakkad Rail Coach Factory project

SAIL ready to take up Palakkad Rail Coach Factory project

Palakkad: The interest shown by the Union minister for steel Narendra Singh Tomar and the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) in the Palakkad railway coach factory project could give a new lease of life to the project that has been hanging fire for a couple of years now.

At a meeting in New Delhi on Friday, Tomar told chief minister Oommen Chandy that SAIL was ready to be a partner in a joint venture with the railways to take up the project. Chandy was accompanied by MPs M B Rajesh and M K Raghavan.

MP M B Rajesh, in a statement here on Friday, said Tomar told the chief minister that if the railways nominated SAIL as its joint venture partner, it would take up the project, provided the coaches manufactured at the Palakkad factory be bought by the railways.
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Monday, 21 September 2015

07:38

Booking counters have stopped issuing sleeper tickets to those wishing to travel without reservation on trains

Booking counters have stopped issuing sleeper tickets to those wishing to travel without reservation on trains

CPI-M asks Railways to withdraw order on sleeper tickets

CPI(M) today demanded that Railways withdraw its order stopping on the spot issue of sleeper tickets for long distance trains in reserved coaches and urged Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to immediately take up with the Railways the hardships faced by commuters . 

Party State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told reporters here that this step by Railways had led to hardships for the passengers. 

He demanded that the Chief Minister immediately intervene on the matter and alleged that it was an 'open challenge' by the Railway towards commuters. 

CPI(M) veteran and Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan requested the Railways to reconsider the decision and withdraw the order. 

As per the directive of Railway Board, booking counters have stopped issuing sleeper tickets to those wishing to travel without reservation on trains. 

Only ordinary tickets will henceforth be issued. 

Earlier, passengers were issued sleeper class tickets in long distance trains to travel during daytime.
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Thursday, 17 September 2015

08:43

DMRC named Thiruvananthapuram & Kozhikode Light Metro Consultant

DMRC named Thiruvananthapuram & Kozhikode Light Metro Consultant

Thiruvananthapuram: The state government on Tuesday named Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) as the consultant for the Light Metro project for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. The letter sent to the Union government by PWD secretary Mohammed Hanish on Tuesday included the details regarding consultancy as well.

Though the state cabinet gave administrative sanction to the detailed project report prepared by DMRC on September 9, the role of DMRC was not mentioned. While announcing the decision, chief minister Oommen Chandy said the government would convey the Centre about the administrative sanction and added that the project would be modelled on Kochi Metro. But Chandy hadn’t clarified the role of DMRC.

Later, KPCC president V M Sudheeran wrote a letter to Chandy asking to clear the air regarding the project. The KPCC executive meeting held here earlier this month also demanded execution of Light Metro project under the supervision of DMRC principal adviser E Sreedharan. CPM also issued a statement seeking the involvement of DMRC and Sreedharan in the project. But senior officials, including chief secretary Jiji Thomson, were against awarding consultancy to DMRC arbitrarily as they believed that awarding consultancy on a nomination basis was a violation of CVC guidelines.

Sources in the government said the CM finally decided to pay heed to the suggestion as he didn’t want to trigger controversies ahead of local body elections.

The government has sought in-principle clearance from the Centre for the project and sharing of cost. The state has mooted a proposal to avail 60% of the project cost as loan and sharing of the rest equally between state and Centre
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