Vijayans dream challenge Okay-Rail prone to stay as a dream as officers repatriated

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 19: Kerala’s largest infrastructure challenge, Silver Line (Okay-Rail), which was the dream challenge of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and which he vowed to proceed with regardless of the large state-wide protests, is prone to stay a dream.

In August this yr, Vijayan knowledgeable the Assembly that the challenge is not going to be shelved and is awaiting the Centre’s clearance, however on Saturday, it grew to become very evident, for all sensible functions, that challenge is defunct when it was identified that 205 state authorities workers deputed to the 11 workplace of Okay-Rail have been requested to report again to their dad or mum departments.

The challenge was seen because the Chief Minister’s pet challenge and shortly after taking on the workplace for the second time after the 2021 Assembly elections, he had expressed his willpower to go forward with it.

But opposite to his expectations, because the preliminary work of figuring out the land for the challenge began, it was met with stiff resistance from a big part of the general public who staged protests throughout the state, together with in his residence turf – Kannur.

Despite a number of appeals from numerous quarters, Vijayan was adamant on making the challenge a actuality.

To his shock, the CPI-M was decimated within the Thrikkakara Assembly by ballot in May, making the completion of the challenge more durable.

Following it, issues went right into a limbo.

Metroman E.Sreedharan had termed the Okay-Rail proposal an “idiotic” one and stated that it’ll by no means be carried out as it’s neither economically possible nor environmentally viable.

And on Saturday, he stated Vijayan was misled by some quarters about the entire challenge.

“This was never a technically feasible one and it was never a sound project too,” stated Sreedharan.

If accomplished, the Okay-Rail challenge would have seen a 529.45 km hall connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod with semi-high pace trains protecting the gap in round 4 hours.

Both the Congress and the BJP stated this challenge is just not wanted for Kerala given the large value which they are saying would exceed Rs 1.50 lakh crore. Besides being an environmental and financial catastrophe, it might be an enormous burden for the subsequent era, the events stated.

But for lengthy, Vijayan and the ruling Left was saying the fee will likely be round Rs 65,000 crore solely.

One purpose why this challenge regardless of all of the rhetoric of Vijayan, failed to come back anyplace close to implementation was it by no means had the concurrence or any kind of clearance from the Centre.

Vijayan was adamant and therefore noticed the state authorities holding conferences with an invited viewers at 11 districts of the state explaining the deserves and why this challenge can be a recreation changer.

“We want to hear the news through a government order that his project has been called off and we also want the state government to withdraw all the cases registered against the protesters because they were fighting for their land and property, which would have gone, had the project began,” stated Maria Abu, who was one of many stay wire protesters in opposition to the challenge.

Vijayan’s dream challenge Okay-Rail prone to stay as a dream as officers repatriated IANS 19 November 2022 Post Your Comments

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