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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.
Prakash Babu, the assistant state secretary of CPI, blamed government officials for the mess. 'Why are some officials displaying haste to implement the project? Their intentions are suspect,' he said.
Tension prevailed in the area near Reethupalli at Mundukuzhy for more than one hour, before the agitators were arrested and removed to the Thrikkodithanam police station.
The three-hour discussion on K-Rail Semi High Speed project in the Assembly on Monday went along expected lines.
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