Thiruvananthapuram : , Tuesday, December 14th.The Congress party decided to increase its opposition to the so-called dream project of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan: the over Rs.60,000 crore Silver Line K-Rail Project.Oommen Chandy, a former Chief Minister in Congress of Kerala, has requested Vijayan make public the detailed project report (DPR). It will create a corridor of 529.45km connecting Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod.The distance can be covered in just four hours.
Alok Kumar Varma, who prepared the DPR, has questioned the quality.It’s concerning that Vijayan wants to move forward on the DPR basis, even though people are fighting back.Chandy said that Vijayan has now used force to intimidate those who oppose this.”
Chandy continued to suggest that the preliminary DPR may be a copycat of an earlier bullet train proposal from the DMRC.
It is surprising that K-rail will be costlier than the Mumbai-Ahmadabad bullet railway project.
Chandy asked Chandy why Vijayan is so keen to move forward with this project.
Vijayan, who was attacked by Opposition V.D.Satheesan, who claimed that the agency responsible for the preliminary survey with LiDAR has expressed doubts about this claim and it was the Opposition’s point raised at the assembly.
“The expected project cost is now being predicted at a staggering Rs one lakh crore, while the NITI Aayog says it might cost Rs 1.24 lakh crore and these are all based according to 2018 figures and hence if the project gets completed it might cost Rs 2 lakh crore and what’s most surprising is this project is going forward without even a proper study report.And even more surprising is this project has not even conducted an environment assessment study, a social impact study, nor does it have the clearance of the Centre.Hence the Congress led UDF is staging a state-wide protest against this project on December 18,” said Satheesan.
“Vijayan has not given answers to a single question that has been raised by us on this project.All knows that for 16 years Vijayan headed the party and blocked all developmental projects and now he claims to be the saviour.
Today he is behaving like Prime Minister Modi, who also does not give answers to questions raised.We will cooperate if he comes clean on all what we have raised,” added Satheesan.
The strong opposition against the project comes at a time when Vijayan has written to Modi seeking his personal intervention to accord sanction to the project.
Meanwhile Metroman E.Sreedharan has termed the K-Rail project as an idiotic proposal.
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