Namma Railu
Advocacy group to campaign for a Commuter Rail System for Bangalore
Initiator:
Praja RAAG About Praja.in
Know who we are and how you can get started with us on this website.
WELCOME to NAMMA RAILU
Need for Suburban/Commuter Rail for Bengaluru makes to Railway Budget Speech in Parliament
This is how the railway minister, Shri. Sadananda Gowda describes in his maiden railway budget speech,
"..Madam Speaker, as you are aware, Bengaluru with bustling, business activity attracts large commuters from surrounding rural areas and towns necessitating better connectivity of Bengaluru City with its suburban areas and hinterland. Study to Explore Possibility of enhancing the existing IR network of Bengaluru for meeting the above need will be taken up. In addition, to cater to the demand of Passenger Traffic in Bengaluru area, Byyappanahalli will be developed as a coaching terminal..."
In addition, he has announced these train services to give immediate relief to the commuters.
MEMU services
i) Bengaluru -Ramanagaram 6 days a week(3Pairs)
DEMU services
i) Bengaluru -Neelmangala (Daily)
ii) Yesvantpur Hosur (6 days a week)
Passenger Services
i)Yesvantpur-Tumkur Passenger(Daily)
----------------*-----------------------
A petition with 5000+ signatures was submitted to the Railway Minister in person on June 29th, 2014
http://rail.praja.in
Catch the latest buzz here,
-
Discussion on GOK's formal proposal sent to Railways
What NEXT?
The ball is in GOK court now. GOK must start the conversation with Railways to operationalize the SPV and get down to implement the Phase-1A.
How can we make it HAPPEN?
The approval process does take time in normal course of action. However, if GOK specially our Chief Minister can take up this personally with the Union Railway Minister, there is a real chance for early approval to the project. We all can help in that process if each one of us can reach out to our local area MP/MLA and pressurize them take up the issue with both the CM and teh Railway Minister.
Do not have the contact information? Don't worry. Here is the link for post with contact information for all the MPs/MLAs whose constituency fall in the proposed suburban rail network.
Have questions? Email it to "nammarailu@praja.in"
QUICK LINKS on Suburban Rail Project
CRS, Suburban Rail aka Namma Railu is a citizens' campaign led by Praja and supported by citizens' groups like Hasiru Usiru, CONCERN (Student's body at IISc), ITEC, Aid India, & BengaluruONE. It also has the support from government quarters like CiSTUP, DULT and recently RITES via its report
The population of the Bengaluru Urban area grew by 35% in the 1991-2001 decade and by about 47% in the 2001-11 time period. In order to cope with this growth the government has invested heavily. BMTC has added 3500 buses from 2006-07 to early 2011. Huge amounts of money have been invested in upgrading roads, building grade separators, the B-TRAC project and most recently for the Metro rail project which will add 115 kms of mass transit (phase-I and phase II combined) for a total estimated cost of 38,000 crores. However, most experts are in agreement that even with the Metro fully operational, Bengaluru's public transport requirements are going to continue to exceed the combined capacity of BMTC and Namma Metro. Here is where commuter rail comes in.
To read all discussions at Praja on the subject, use following links
All posts in this group
First woman to drive the MMTS on Women's Day
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 needs Commuter Rail badly
Malur example shows how commuter rail will help the people
CRS will be a boon for IT professionals
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.
ROB for ORR near Tumkur Road between Yesvantpur to Chikbanavar
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.
Yesvantpur - Yelahanka Doubling held up due Land not provided by GoK
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.
Commuter Rail Project Reply from RITES
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.
Train, solution to traffic woes?
Another route that is largely unheard of is the 67 km Yeshwantpur- Hosur rail route.
A quaint and strange station : Byappanahalli railway station
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.
City to get commuter rail services soon
State government, South Western Railway to share cost of commuter rail service.
Praja.in comment guidelines
Posting Guidelines apply for comments as well. No foul language, hate mongering or personal attacks. If criticizing third person or an authority, you must be fact based, as constructive as possible, and use gentle words. Avoid going off-topic no matter how nice your comment is. Moderators reserve the right to either edit or simply delete comments that don't meet these guidelines. If you are nice enough to realize you violated the guidelines, please save Moderators some time by editing and fixing yourself. Thanks!
Recent comments in this project