On Women’s Day, the South Central Railway has decided to harness woman power to drive a train. S Satyavathi will become the first independent woman loco pilot, when she runs out the Falaknuma-Lingampalli Mathrubhoomi Ladies Special MMTS on Thursday. Satyavathi, who joined the Railways as assistant loco pilot in 1999 at Bengaluru, was later transferred to the Secunderabad division.
Malur example shows how commuter rail will help the people
Rithesh Swamy lives near the Yelahanka Railway Station. Yet, his travel to ITPL is cumbersome as there are no connecting trains till ITPL from Yelahanka during peak office hours. The KR Puram, Hebbal and Marathahalli junctions are chock-a-block with vehicles in peak hours. A well-networked commuter rail will provide some respite, say passengers.
Finally SWR has called tender for ROB at MES road connecting to Tumkur road on ORR which was real pain for road users.
Tender value worth Rs 20.22 Crore , to be completed in 24 months. As their are two rail gates, it was nighmare for road travell.
Here you can see the reply to RTI application on
1. Yesvantpur to Yelahanaka ( 12 Kms ) is penidng due to Land not provided by GoK.
2. Yelahanka - Channasandra ( 12.9Kms ) tenders finalised but work not yet started.
3. Kolar - Chikballapur ( 96.5 Kms ) expetected to be completed in 2011-12.
Here RITES confirming on the Commuter Rail project for Bangalore doing the detailed report.
But reply from RITES says only as per the scope of work assigned to them for Cmmuter Rail.
Another route that is largely unheard of is the 67 km Yeshwantpur- Hosur rail route.
Wearing a deserted look, the Byappanahalli railway station is in dismal shape boasting of the apathy and disinterest exhibited on the part of the authority concerned. The comfort of using other hi-tech railways stations of the city with facilities like the digital indicators and computerised systems vanishes, as soon as one comes face-to-face with this desolated base.
State government, South Western Railway to share cost of commuter rail service.
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