No Commuter Rail Proposal from GOK - PMO

Here is a list of new trains and extensions in the budget..

Many (4) trains are extended to Mysore and one of them is a daily..is this a way to say the tracks are occupied for CRS?

Other party people also could have send proposals not just ruling party,  Now, it seems no party is interested, maybe Praja needs to put up some candidates. Aswin Mahesh gives some hope

Mr Srinidhi, I too feel the same. I don't know why so many trains are being extended to Mysore nowadays. I believe the GOK has already transferred the Binny Mills land to the railways; hopefully the new government would do something about the commuter rail service, that the city desperately needs once the new terminus is in place. Well one needs to examine the urgency of the railways to take up work on the new station at Bangalore City, considering that Byappanahalli terminus has been spoken of since the past 6 years......

I wonder how the government thinks that CRS is unncecessary when the metro network is being put in place. Metro is largely for the intra-city travel, while the CRS is for the inter-city travel within the metropolitan area. Their roles are entirely different and so is the population they cater to.

Had heard Chandra Babu Naidu would camp endlessly in New Delhi those days to get what he wants for his state..this is more so important because we dont have the same ruling party in the centre..

I havent heard of any such actions from the govt here..all they are involved is in pulling each others legs and breaking up forming parties..

The major disappointment is that the states demand for a commuter rail system for Bangalore (suburban rail service) has not been considered though state has agreed to fund 50% of the project cost.Other major proposals ignored are the Bangalore-Mysore and Bangalore-Tumkur rail corridors with the doubling,electrification and automatic signalling not getting the green signal.
 

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Thanks to TOI  for covering this aspect.

We should thank all major news papers : DNA, TOI, Decchan Chronicle covering Commuter Rail not sanctioned.

There are tracks, but no will. Why on earth would Railways not consider a DEMU/MEMU based commuter rail service to help de-congest Bengaluru despite well researched need and long pending requests from citizens and local representatives? Imagine if you had to go seek permission of a ministry in New Delhi to get a Bus Service started between Mysore and Mandya - how would you feel? What is so special about rails that there is still a heavily centralized ministry with arbitrary divisions that neither have clear alignment with states, nor the authority to present their own separate budgets and plans? Indian Railways is behind times because of this centralized approach. And cities like Bengaluru will pay the price by being forced to spend on 10 times as expensive mass transit options.

Syed Sir, Shanthala Damle is contesting from Basavanagudi for Lokasatta Party, same party for which Dr. Ashwin Mahesh is contesting.

I sent an FB message to her. One of my colleague is promoting her party looking at the different way they are functioning. I will also pass on this message to him to take up this as an agenda.