Meeting with Mr V Madhu, Infrastructure Development Dept

Submitted by silkboard on 17 May 2010 - 11:55pm

Start: 20 May 2010 15:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

On the subject of commuter rail plans, finally, we have a meeting comfirmed with Mr V Madhu. got this from Mr Madhu's office. Thursday 20th May, 3 PM, Vikasa Soudha.

You are invited for the Meeting with Shri V.Madhu, Principal Secretary to Government, Infrastructure Development Department on 20th May 2010 at 15:00hrs in Room no-28, Ground Floor, Vikasa Soudha, Bangalore-560009 You are requested to carry a copy of this mail to allow yourself inside Vikasa Soudha.

Thankfully, I don't have any work meetings Thursday afternoon, I will be able to make time for this meeting. Will print and bring along the email. Anyone else wants to join in, leave a comment, and I will pass you my phone number so that we can coordinate.

Agenda of this meeting - know current status on state goverment's plans for commuter rail.

Groups:

Namma Railu

Comments

I am in

Submitted by idontspam on 18 May 2010 - 7:53am.

I am in... but I have a hard stop at 4:30.

I am in too..

Submitted by srinidhi on 18 May 2010 - 8:01am.

I too hav a hard stop at 4.30

hsrl?

Submitted by vinay_sreenivasa on 18 May 2010 - 11:04am.

silkboard, madhu is also incharge of hsrl. can u pls ask him where that stands and if its up for grabs at GIM?

I will join

Submitted by Sanjeev on 18 May 2010 - 11:15am.

@ Pranav

I am confirming and will make myself free in the afternoon.

Thanks Pranav for the effort in organising as I had lost the hope for meeting on CRS with Mr V Madhu

Finally we have meeting with Mr V Madhu.

We need to prepare the specific points for the CRS progress. Already in RTI thread, we have the points, and need to add few more points so that we get the clear picture on the CRS.

@IDS & Srinidhi, Muralidhar sir & others interested and propogating CRS, kindly make it for the meeting so that Govt & IDD take the issue of CRS seriously.

Would have liked to join

Submitted by Naveen on 18 May 2010 - 9:44pm.

This could be an important meeting since Mr Madhu is the boss for IDD, which makes most decisions relating to urban transport, not to mention other urban infrastructural issues.

I would have liked very much to join, but since I am currently overseas, I will be missing this event.

All the best to participants that attend the meet.

Will join. Anyone for car

Submitted by murali772 on 19 May 2010 - 4:52pm.

Will join. Anyone for car pool? I'll leave Koramangala around 2.15PM, and head towards Vikas Soudha via Games Village, Vellara jn, SBI, Koshy's, GPO. I can go via Domlur instead, if anyone wants a pick up near Shantisagar. Alternatively, anyone coming up Airport (old) road, can pick me up from Shantisagar, in which case, I'll leave my vehicle in Domlur.

Muralidhar Rao

Will try and join. Have a

Submitted by n on 19 May 2010 - 8:59pm.

Will try and join. Have a lunch appointment so may be a little late getting there.

Let us meet at the gate

Submitted by silkboard on 19 May 2010 - 9:18pm.

Let us meet at Vikas Soudha gate by 2.45 - 3 pm. I will be on with a black Praja cap id that helps us locate each other. If anyone needs my number, drop me an email/private message.

Murali, I will go directly from office via OMR, won't be able to car pool.

Willing to join, but unable to make -Please discuss these points

Submitted by Vasanth on 20 May 2010 - 8:45am.

I wish if I could have joined, but due to office work, unable to join. Please discuss these additional points:

1. Extension of Devanahalli Train to Kengeri or atleast SBC with few A/C coaches and increase in frequency.

2. HSRL / Metro Debate to BIAL - Any final decision taken.

Thanks,

Vasanth

Only CRS questions please

Submitted by silkboard on 20 May 2010 - 10:01am.

Vasanth, Srinidhi - Sanjeev and I organized this meeting to talk Commuter Rail as part of our CSR lobby project. HSRL, Metro etc are related. But I would use the time in the meeting only for Commuter Rail questions.

If guys need updates on HSRL etc, please think of organizing a separate meeting. Or just drop an email to IDD, they should be in a position to reply.

See you al at 3 pm.

Update on HSRL

Submitted by santoshfs on 20 May 2010 - 2:55pm.

@ Vasant

Tender has been called by IDD for preparation of DPR for monorail/Light Rail Transit system.

See Times Of India, Wednesday 19th May 2010, Page No. 15, Bangalore edition

Tender not on IDD website

Submitted by ashwin on 20 May 2010 - 4:59pm.

Saw the tender ad - it said that the tender document would be available on http://www.idd.kar.nic.in/ on the 20th. I was hoping to find details of which route was getting tendered but I couldn't find it on the website. Does anyone have a direct link ?

HSRL tenders & Monorail

Submitted by idontspam on 20 May 2010 - 6:20pm.

HSRL tenders & Monorail reports are all with IDD and in various stages of processing. We did not discuss those and focussed on CRS.

@Ashwin, Now it's been

Submitted by santoshfs on 20 May 2010 - 9:08pm.

@Ashwin,

Now it's been updated.

http://www.idd.kar.nic.in/monorail.html

//Santosh

CRS

Submitted by Sanjeev on 21 May 2010 - 9:51am.

IDS,, Silkboard, Muralidhar Rao,

Could not make it as other meeting got delayed. How was the meeting, does IDD is taking the CRS seriously. Ealrier had posted couple of emails to Bangalore South MP Mr Ananth Kumar and finally got call to meet him on 20th at 11:30. But could meet him only at 3PM after waiting for 3 Hrs, hence could not make it for IDD meet. Submitted the same files in print which were uploaded in Praja and explained him aboout confusion of Commuter Rail / Local Train with Circular Rail. Also explained why is such delay in getting sanction from Railway Minister for Local Trains.

Then he planned for ABIDe meeting exclusivily for Local Trains project with Railway Minister, Chief Minister, IDD, BDA, BMTC, Railway officals within next 2-3 weeks. Their is going to be presentaion on the Local Train Project. We need to provide the presentatin with details.

How we should go about this & with IDD meet.

Draft CRS presentation

Submitted by idontspam on 21 May 2010 - 10:15am.

I have mailed the draft of the presentation on CRS to Pranav, since he was in touch with you yesterday, let us discuss this Saturday on the sidelines of the meeting with Mr Sood.

I am also planning a report to be submitted to IDD based on which a pre-feasibility report can be commissioned. Some options were discussed with Mr Madhu, we will need to meet for that separately and discuss.

Since this may lead to railways throwing PPP open for suburban railways in some form or another and we will need Ananth Kumar & the likes pushing for this as well in Delhi.

had a good meeting

Submitted by silkboard on 21 May 2010 - 10:31am.

Let us write our meeting reports (V Madhu, and Anant Kumar) in a separate post.

Let us meet on Saturday around the Praveen Sood meeting and plan the presentation.

V Madhu shifted to Revenue dept

Submitted by idontspam on 12 June 2010 - 2:27pm.

Senior IAS officer V Madhu has been appointed as the new Principal Secretary to the Revenue Department in a reshuffle of 11 State bureaucrats on Friday.

Source

Additional charge of IDD by Mr V Madhu

Submitted by Sanjeev on 12 June 2010 - 4:44pm.

Madhu will also hold additional charge as Principal Secretary, Infrastructure Development Department.

So still he is incharge with IDD, so we should submit our CRS report at the earliest to him and get his feedback for final submission to IDD before further any changes.

Dropped him a mail

Submitted by silkboard on 14 June 2010 - 11:38pm.

Dropped him a mail asking for time early next week.

Taking up New Railway Projects in Karnataka.

Submitted by Sanjeev on 9 July 2010 - 12:12pm.

Taking up New Railway Projects in Karnataka. Dt 24.04.2010

Here their is no mention of Commuter Rail or Circular Rail Project for Bangalore. This shows whats the state of affairs on Local Trains for Bangalore.

http://idd.kar.nic.in/docs/IDD_35_NSW_09.pdf