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Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025
The estimated cost for the SilverLine project was Rs 63,940 crore, with the central government expected to contribute Rs 6,313 crore.
Sreedharan maintains that Kerala, being a continuous stretch of urban centres, does not require a train with a top speed of 350 km/h.
Sreedharan had met with the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, expressing his willingness to provide technical expertise for the project.
The railways are also planning to reduce the speed of certain premium trains including Vande Bharat.
Trains to chug at a speed of up to 130 kmph.
This was the advice most railway experts like E Sreedharan, Alok Kumar Verma and even the Railway Board had given.
The technical debate on the proposed SilverLine project, organised at the behest of the state govt, is being held at Thiruvananthapuram.
Without stating any reason, K-Rail struck off Mathew's name and invited engineer and environmental activist Sridhar Radhakrishnan to take his place.
The land owners alleged that the officials turned up to lay the survey stones without informing them.
Despite the K-Rail authorities claiming that stone laying had not been stopped as part of the survey at any place, the fact is that no such activity has happened in the state for the past two weeks.
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