K RAIL - YES OR NO?

K RAIL has created confusion among a good number of people. Whether it is mere confusion or reality is yet to be confirmed. The only significance of this project is fast rail transport for a negligible section of people. Other than this K Rail  does not contribute much for the development of the state either  in the form of employment, infrastructure development useful for common man or GDP pci of the state. On the other hand it may create huge economic burden on the entire people of the state. The state is already shouldering unbearable financial liability. In fact the government is finding it hard to meet the day to day expenditure like salary and wages, maintenance of 

roads and many other areas. With the available information, if the project is completed strictly within the scheduled time, the project expenditure is certainly going to be over one lakh crore rupees, according to different experts.

While this K Rail is a fast train service within the state of Kerala, the entire cost of it shall be on the account of the state. On the other hand, Indian Railways recently had a trial run of a super fast train between New Delhi and Varanasi. This train, Vande Bharat Express,  has a speed of 180 kmph which is more or less same as K Rail. If we can negotiate with Indian Railways and bring in this in place of the proposed K Rail, the financial requirements can be shared with them. Since good amount railway land can be utilised for Vande Bharat Express, the land acquisition cost may be considerably low. Altogether, we can have a fast train as proposed by us at considerably less liability on us. Further to this if we prefer to Vande Bharat Express, the opposition by the people may be zero.

Dear fellow Malayalis, is this proposal ok for you?

K V George