Commuter Rail meeting with Comsr, DULT

Submitted by silkboard on 14 December 2010 - 8:23am

Start: 16 Dec 2010 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Namma Railu team is accompanying CiSTUP this week for a meeting with DULT on commuter rail. Authors of Namma Railu will be attending, and can take in 2 more Namma Railu enthusiasts to the meeting. Please post a comment if any other project member is interested.

Venue, timing and confirmation will be mailed to you once you post the comment.

A meeting on Commuter Rail System is scheduled under the Chairmanship of Commissioner, DULT, on *16.12.2010 at 11 AM. It is kindly requested to make it convenient to attend the meeting with all the related information.

Groups:

Namma Railu

Comments

I won't be able to join

Submitted by silkboard on 15 December 2010 - 5:41pm.

Sanjeev, Naveen, IDS and Prof Sitharam, all the best for the meeting with DULT, regret that I won't be able to join.

Going by the comments so far (none!), looks like a weekday is tight for others as well.

Meeting with Commissioner / DULT on 16th Dec'2010

Submitted by Sanjeev on 17 December 2010 - 4:16pm.

Meeting with Commissioner / DULT was arranged this morning 16th Dec at 11 am at DULT conference hall. CiSTUP/ IISc, BCIC & Praja attended the meeting.

Following members attended the meeting

1. Manjula IAS / Commissioner / DULT

2. IAS / IDD

3. Prof. Sitaram CISTUP / IISc.

4. Y N Babu / SDOM SWR

5. Satya / Praja

6. Naveen / Praja

7. Sanjeev / Praja

8. Sumitra Iyangar BCIC

9. K S Kartik GEODESIC

10. Tusharmani / DULT

11. George Planning / SWR

Initially Prof Sitaram explained the concept of Commuter Rail for Bangalore & its scope. Discussion took place on the existing 14 pair of trains which are running exclusivily to suburbs of Bangalore like Bangarpet, Tumkur, Hosur, Chikballapur.

Then Mr Satya presented on how Commuter rail need to be taken forward to DPR. stage

In the process Mr Babu explained their difficulty operating at main Bangalore city and on going projects of SWR.

Mr Babu has finally agreed on the Commuter Rail under SPV / PPP with SWR sharing its resources. They are now willing to work with State Govt on how to take forward this inculding DPR.

Now CiSTUP, SWR & Praja need to come out with segments where SWR can allow for the Commuter rail with additional Infrastructure and plan for ramp up the further trains for the Commuter Rail till full fledge services are put in place with dedicated tracks.

Now CiSTUP, SWR & Praja will prepare presentation to-gether where their will not be any disputes with SWR for ED / Planning of Indian Railways before 23rd Dec'2010.

In over all things lookng up now for Commuter Rail as compared to the meeting with DRM's office.

Now we need Public to speak out in all forums on the Commuter Rail so that State & Center work to-gether to get the project.

Satya & Naveen if any corrections or addtions can be done..

Sanjeev

Thanks for NR team!

Submitted by kbsyed61 on 17 December 2010 - 10:03pm.

Sanjeev,

Thanks for posting the proceedings of the meeting. A BIG thank to the Namma Railu Team for exerting all their time and effort to take this to the next level.

Please let me know how people like me who are not based in Bengaluru can contribute to these efforts. Letters/Faxes to MPs/MLAs, anything thatt would help this cause.

-Syed

operating difficulty at Bangalore city

Submitted by devadas jeppu on 18 December 2010 - 9:21am.

Namma Railu need not operate out of Bangalore city as central point. This is both from railways operational angle and commuter convenience. Byeppananhalli where railways hv large tract of land and which is also one of metro terminus cud ideally be central point. morever this station is already connected to west(tumkur via yeshwantpur), east(hosur) and northern(dodballapur) corridors

excellent meeting, next step - get IDD to start the DPR?

Submitted by silkboard on 18 December 2010 - 1:01pm.

Sanjeev, Sathya, Naveen, Prof Sitharam - great show, looks like this meeting went well. Looks like the next step clearly is to have someone fund (SWR, or state?) a DPR. Will state fund it? As per last state stand of Mr Madhu/IDD, they are willing to fund the DPR if SWR says "yes, I am willing to look at it". So after this meeting, SWR is willing to say that, right?

Would the next stop be IDD then?

Or, is SWR itself willing to fund a DPR?

or will it be DULT now?

Submitted by silkboard on 18 December 2010 - 1:03pm.

Forgot to ask - will DULT be willing to fund/undertake the DPR? Org structure wise, wow is DULT related to IDD?

Memorandum to MSR

Submitted by idontspam on 18 December 2010 - 1:08pm.

[moved up to a new post, click here]

DULT & IDD

Submitted by idontspam on 18 December 2010 - 1:21pm.

will DULT be willing to fund/undertake the DPR? Org structure wise, wow is DULT related to IDD?

She brushed aside my question on the same and asked us not to get into the "how-we-will-do-it" part. They probably dont like being told/asked this.

ERRATA

Submitted by idontspam on 18 December 2010 - 1:24pm.

Realised the factual error in the memo. The DULT meeting should read 16 Dec 2010 and not 16th Nov 2010.

Routing of namma railu

Submitted by devadas jeppu on 23 December 2010 - 12:38pm.

Is there any plan to make Byeppanahalli as commuter rail central terminus?