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  • K-Rail Can Be Implemented If Technical Issues In Design Addressed, Says Ashwini Vaishnav | Mobility News

    The Kerala government’s ambitious K-Rail semi-high-speed rail project is back in the news again as the Centre assured on Sunday that the project can be taken forward if the technical and environmental issues in its design are addressed by the state authorities.

    The multi-crore project has been shelved for some time due to intense protest from opposition parties and the general public and also for want of permission from the union government.

    Giving a fresh hope to the project, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that he had discussed the matter with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan when they had last met in New Delhi.

    “I requested the CM that whatever technical and environmental issues are there in the design of the K-Rail, please address them expeditiously, so that, this project can also be taken forward. Because from our side – the NDA government – we believe in cooperative federalism,” he told reporters here.

    The union minister further said that the Centre is committed to constructing the Sabari rail from Angamaly to Erumely as per the original alignment.

    Vaishnav said that the state government recently sent a letter to the Centre with attaching certain conditions. “So, we will be very soon sending a format to the Kerala government which we have done with the government of Maharashtra,” he said.

    Once the state authorities fill up the format, then the project (Sabari rail) can start and move forward, the union minister added.

    The K Rail, a semi-high speed rail corridor, aims to ease transportation along the entire north and south stretch of Kerala and reduce the travel time to less than four hours, as against 12 to 14 hours at present.

    The SilverLine would cover a 530-kilometre stretch from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod and be developed by K-Rail, a joint venture of the Kerala government and the Ministry of Railways.

    The Opposition Congress and the BJP in Kerala have been protesting against the SilverLine project, saying it will affect the families who will be displaced due to its implementation.

  • No Railway Recruitment Board unit to be closed: Railway minister

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    NEW DELHI: Hanging an finish to the theory of closure of the Thiruvananthapuram-based Railway Recruitment Board, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav stated that the railways haven’t any such plan.

    Replying to a question within the Rajya Sabha on Friday, the minister made it transparent that no proposal was once moved through the ministry to finally end up any unit of the Railway Recruitment Board.

    Hypothesis within the air that the railway, within the backdrop of latest violent protests over alleged irregularities in the results of the NTPC examination, is thinking about remaining the RRBs.

    The Railway minister giving a observation in a written answer within the Rajya Sabha categorically denied this sort of transfer to near the RRB. He stated that stated the railway has now not moved this sort of proposal at the moment time to near any Railway Recruitment Board.

    Just lately, Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor additionally met the railway minister on the latter workplace and the railway minister made it transparent additionally to Tharoor that no proposal was once taken as much as shut the RRB.

  • Nation’s largest wrestling academy to be arrange by way of Railways in Delhi

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    NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways will quickly arrange the rustic’s largest world-class academy, completely for wrestlers in railways, with all of the perfect sports activities amenities at Kishanganj locality in Delhi.

    An estimated value of Rs 30.76 crore for its established order has already been sanctioned by way of the railway.

    Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday in a written answer within the Rajya Sabha introduced that the proposed nation’s largest wrestling academy will likely be supplied with complicated coaching amenities offering abundant alternatives to many budding wrestlers to change into champions within the occasions to return.

    “The Railways have performed a paramount function in selling wrestling in India and lots of the acclaimed wrestlers are from railways. The lots of the medals received by way of India in wrestling in Olympics had been from Indian Railways like Sushil (2008 and 2012), Sakshi Malik (2016), Ravi Kumar and Bajranj (2020)”, the minister stated.

    Lauding the performances of railways wrestlers in Tokyo Olympics 2020, the railway minister stated that the railway sportspersons had achieved marvelous and out of seven medals received by way of India 3 folks medals had been received by way of the railway sportspersons.

    The minister additionally stated that the Indian Railways has been contributing to the promotion of sports activities via Railway Sports activities Promotion Board within the nation.

    “As of date, greater than 9000 sportspersons are on roll in 29 sport disciplines in Indian Railways. The Railways sportspersons had been honoured with 27 Padamshreee, 176 Arjuna, 12 Dhayanchanad, 14 Dronacharaya and 9 main Dhayanchand Khel Ratna awards for his or her exceptional sports activities achievements”, the minister stated.