Kerala High Speed Rail Corridor

A demand was made in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the Centre should expeditiously give its nod to a proposed nearly Rs 64,000 crore semi high-speed rail line connecting two ends of Kerala.

The Kerala High Speed Rail Corporation proposes to begin construction of the ambitious High Speed Rail corridor project connecting the state's southern end Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore in Karnataka by January 2014 if all clearances are received by then.

The Centre would decide on the chairman of the over Rs 5,000 crore Kochi Metro Rail Project, which recently got the Cabinet nod, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Saturday.

Billed as the biggest and most expensive infrastructure project conceived by Kerala, a high speed rail corridor for India's first bullet train is one of the mega projects the state plans to implement.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that work on the state's ambitious high speed rail corridor project, involving an investment of a whopping Rs 1.18 trillion, will begin from April next year.The first phase of the project, connecting the state capital with Kochi, will hopefully be over by March 2018, he said.

In a boost to Kerala's efforts to fast-track infrastructure development, the Centre has given the green signal to its ambitious high speed rail corridor project, linking the entire stretch from Kasargode in the north to the state capital in the south.

A demand was made in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the Centre should expeditiously give its nod to a proposed nearly Rs 64,000 crore semi high-speed rail line connecting two ends of Kerala.

The Kerala High Speed Rail Corporation proposes to begin construction of the ambitious High Speed Rail corridor project connecting the state's southern end Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore in Karnataka by January 2014 if all clearances are received by then.

The Centre would decide on the chairman of the over Rs 5,000 crore Kochi Metro Rail Project, which recently got the Cabinet nod, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Saturday.

Billed as the biggest and most expensive infrastructure project conceived by Kerala, a high speed rail corridor for India's first bullet train is one of the mega projects the state plans to implement.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that work on the state's ambitious high speed rail corridor project, involving an investment of a whopping Rs 1.18 trillion, will begin from April next year.The first phase of the project, connecting the state capital with Kochi, will hopefully be over by March 2018, he said.

In a boost to Kerala's efforts to fast-track infrastructure development, the Centre has given the green signal to its ambitious high speed rail corridor project, linking the entire stretch from Kasargode in the north to the state capital in the south.