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ProceedinQs of the meetinq held on 20.10.2011 under the chairmanship ofHon'ble Chief Minister of Kamataka with Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways and

Hon'ble Members of Parliament from Karnataka reqardinqRailway Projects· in the State

Members Present (List Enclosed)

1. Welcome Address by the Chief SecretafY~

1.1 The Chief Secretary wekomed the Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways, Hon'bleUnion Minister of State for Railways, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Kamataka, Hon'bleChairman, Legislative CounciJ, State Cabinet Ministers,. Senior officers of RailwayMinistry and State Govt.

2. Remarks by the Chief Secretary

2.1 The Chief Secretary stated that Karnataka lags behind its neighbouring St:at~~ :;:. rail connectivity and network, which at present, is only 16.9 kms. per 1,000 §qkm. In

order to improve it, the State is keen to ·take up new railway projects on cost sharing.basis. He brought to the notice of the Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways that the_Statehas been pro-actively supporting the faster implementation of railway projects. TheDeputy Commissioners have already handed over 1093.17 acres of land in the last 5months and 1399.34 acres of land would be handed over to the Railways by the end ofDecember 2011. As an outcome of the last meeting held on 20.4.2011 betvveen Hon'bleChief Minister of Kamataka and the Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Railways, a HighLevel Committee has been set up under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary with theGeneral Ma.nager, SWR and other senior officers of Railways and State Govt asmembers. The Chief Secretary stated that both GoK and MaR 'Would work in sync fordevelopment of railway projects in the State. He also stated that there is a need to start~ommuterRaii to connect Bangalore city to other nearby places.

3. Address by the Hon'ble Chief Minister

3,1 The Hon'ble Chief Minister stated that Karnataka is the only State which is givingland free of cost along with 50% of the cost of the project. 1n the recently held DeputyCommissioners Conference, the subject of land acquisition to railway projects wasdiscussed in detail and he has directed aU the Deputy Commissioners to treat this asthe top priority. A Special Officer has been appointed in Revenue Department'exclusively to look into the matter of land acquisition for railway projects.

3.2 He requested the Hon'ble Railway Minister to give early approval for the followingprojects:

Gadag-Haveri

Gadag-Wadi

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4. Presentation by Principal Secretary, Revenue Dept and Secretary,Infrastructure Development Department. '

4.1 Secretary, 100 made a Power Point' Presentation highlighting the latest positionof the railway projects including RoB I RuBs in the State. Gist of the presentation;.( asfollows:

RS.1 ,307 crores has been released to Railways since 2002-'-03;During the current fiscal year, out of the budget provision of Rs.487.63 crares,RS.146 crores has already been released to Railways.£he next instalment willbe released on production of Utilisation Certificate for the already releasedamount;Railways to specify time schedule / milestone for each projectMonthly physical and financial progress should be share with GoK.; •Railways to participate in Lok Ada!at to dear the compensation issue forKottur-Harihar line;

• Track laying work of Ramanagara-Mysore 'doubling to be completed early,The State will not share electrification cost as it was not a part of originalestimate;

• With regard to Hassan-Bangalore new line, land requirem~nt for realignmentat Kunigal Stud Farm to be submitted to district administration by theRailways immediately and to commence the work from both the end~(Shraya,oabelagola & Nelamangala) where lands are in possession ofRailways; .

QJw-7 -to submit land requirement proposals for the newly sanctioned projects, viz ..Shimoga-Harihar, Tumkur-Oavangere a.nd Whilefield-Kolar to the respectivedistrict administration;

• To complete partly completed RoB / RuBs in Tumkur, Bellary, Shimoga,Bhadravati, Haveri, Ramanagara, Pandavapura etc.;

~ A time schedule to be prepared for completing RoB / RuBs in the State.The Railway officers 19 foBow Railway Engineering Code 1816 scrupulouslyand release the Railway share in time,

RcVlt.-J'''"t-! 'to upgrade Mangalore City, Bangaiore City and ByappanahaHi Rai!wayd Stations which have been sanctioned in 2009-10 budget, but the work has not

been started;Commuter Rail Servicefof BangaJore Suburban are<L-""r-.- ~-_:__-~::__-"7_-~__::::__:~-_:::_:_.Jrnpro\/e !iiirastructure at Banga!ore City Rail\'1ay Station so that more numberof trains can b~ operated dai1y utiiizing the existir.g 10 platforms,

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• Approval for starting work at MG Railway Colony. North Ramp (Swastik andPlatform Road) and STC Area may. be accorded as BMRCL has alreadydeposited funds .

• To extent 21 % rebate on haulage fee for the fiscal year 2009-10 and 2010-11to make Luxury train project viable.

5. Land Acquisition Status

5.1 The Principal Secretary. Revenue Department made a presentation wherein itwas stated that 1,093.17 acres of land has already been handed over to the Raihvaysand the remaining 1,399.34 acres would be handed over by the end of December 2011.The status of lands acquired and handed over for each project was informed.

, .6. Address by the Hon'ble Members of Parliament

~.1 The Chief Minister invited the Hon'ble MPs to give their views. Their suggestionsand requests for works are summarized below:

SI. I Name of the- Member ofNo. Parliament

1 i Shri Ani! Lad: Rajya -SabhaII

I? 1 Shri P.C. GaddiGowdar- I Saga/kat

3 I Shri GS Basavaraj, Tumkur

l4 I Shr; H. Viswanath, MysoreI

5 I Shri R. D~ruvanarayana,

I Chamarajanagar!! Ski Suresh J\ngad:, Be!gaumI .ii

Request I Suggestions

Hospet-GQa line doubl.ingto be speed up ..- Hubli-Ankola Line to be implemented.

I- Provide sufficient cold storage wagons totransport fruits & vegetables from Gadag, Koppal

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Almatti-Koppal new line survey work should bestarted.

trhe following lines/projects to be taken up :r Bangalore-Hassan line

r Tumkur-Rayadurga new liner: Davangere-Tumkur (reduce 90 kms. to Pune)[ Tumkur-Chamarajanagar

1" RoB / RuB in LC 40/41, Tumkur\., Modernisation of T umkur Railway Station

Bangalore- Tumkur line electrificationC_ommuter Rail from Bangalore to Tum~ur -~Release Rs.2 crores for approaches inNagenahalli RuB

" Not to shift Railway Medical College, MysoreD Railway workshop at Mysore to be upgraded

I" Sufficient allocation to be made for Bangalore­. Kanakapura-Ma!avalli-Chamarajanagara Line" Hubii-Mysore and Shimoga-Mysore trains to be

extended upto Chamarajanagarill RuB at Nanjangud

I" Dharwad-Belgaum Nell Line to start ear]y" RoB / RuBs in Belgaum City to be const,ucted

I" Direct train from Hub!: to p/1umbaif~ Rajdhani Express to Delhi 8<Mumbai from

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BangqJore to pass through Tumkur, Davangere,Hubli a'nd BelgaumReservation Office to be opened at BelgaumDharwad-Belgaum New Line to ~tart earfy

• Shatabdi Express from Belgaum to Pune to be., started.

Hubli-Ankola Line to be started early.Sugar Godowns to be constructed at Raibha

• A MasterPlan for rail network & improvedconnectivity in Karnataka.High Speed Train from Bangalore to Belgaum

'." Compensation to be p~id to land losersimmediately through Lok Ada/at for Kottur­Harihar New Line ..

Water Pipeline to be laid at Railway cost wherethe railway line cuts through the land.Provide rain water discharge at Railway cost.Unscientific drainage constructed near LC 197 tobe rectified early.Davangere Railway-Station to be upgraded as'A' grade station.An intercity train from Harihar to BangaloreMPs should be invited for Railway functions.

• , Increase budget allocation for Bagalkot-KudachiNew Line .

• New Line between Belgaum and Karad(Maharashtra) "Extra bogies to the existing Hubli-Belgaum-MirajTrain to ease congestion. -Quick response from the railway officers to the.information sought by the MPs.

[ Construction of godowns at Raibagh Station__r, Stoppage of Oadar- Yeswantpur, Mysore-Dadar" and Sharavati Express atRaibagh.

r Mys?re-Dharwad Express to be extended upto\ MlraJ.• A Garib Rath Train from Bangalore to Belgaum

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Keep railway bogies dean and tidyDedicated bogies should be reserved forpersons travelling from Mangalore to Bangalore.

Bangalore-Manga!ore day train should run daily.Bangalore-Manga!ore train should be extendedto Karwar via. Udupi, Kundapur.RoB at Padil, Mah2J<ali Paduku and RuB JappuKudippadi may be sanctioned in the next year'sbudget.Rai:way to hand overBykampadi bridge to

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Shri Anailt Kuma'r Hegde,

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Shri G.M.Siddeswara,Davangere

Sri Ramesh Katti, Chikkodi

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LI ;'j - . J Irrigated lanus for Shlmoga-Hanhar nevI iine.! :.• T fc:il bog :es to be rer\.] rbished.! ~-: 0 r::-~' ~ . C)"-'n'--~'"":-'.r''''' 'a P :-;r·..--,:' (' D iJ\ \ S~ .•: :--tr ~', 11 ·-,r '- ,.: .-,'~6 I ,-nif!.- ". ,I .."lc:r, uc;"::J"::'J'c: i ~c;ll::!CJ,-'),e I\C:' Na/ LaUo" U oJe •. p~,c.a,;:;o lO C1I I : C,2t;~(:::J .~ ~ i V\/orld Crass Station----.:.----. ---.-----.-.- ~--~- -----------. ----- .

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National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)immediately.Railways to co-operate with local KUWSDB inshifting 'Underground Drainage ..Suburba n train from Mangalore to Puttur should'be eXtended upto Subramanya.Express Trains should stop at Edamangala.Railway Station.Details on the railway projects taken up in 11

I five year plan and the future plan in 12th five

/. year plan to improve the rail density of-Karnataka? .i Survey work for Gadag-Haveri has been

I completed arid the work should start early.I- Increase the seat reservation quota for Haveri.

t- Trains passing through Ranebennur andI . Byadagi ·should stop at these stations ...

I- .Reservation counters at Ranebennur should be!. opened from 8.00 AM to B.OO PM.~ One more goods shed should-be opened inI Byadagi.~ Three railway stations at Haveri, Gadag andi Yelivigi should be upgraded.I- Payment of land acquisition compensationI amount of RS.80 crore of Mehboobnaaar-

. i Ginigera line by Railways. ~

!- Land acquisition proposal of Manvi taluk shouldl be submitted .by the Railways.

I Introduction of one more daily train from Koppalto Hub!i.

I" Upgradation of Koppal Railway Station as

, "Adarsha" Railway Station.r .A new line from Almatti to Koppal should be laid

I as survey has already been completed.~ Shirdi train should be re-introduce9 via. Kappal.Line doubljng from Tumkur to Belgaum.

L Rani Chennamma Exp to be terminated at Miraju A superfast Express betvveen Bangalore and

Be!gaum should be introduced·vhthimmediateeffect.

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7.3 The Hon'ble Railway Minister stated that High Speed Corridor in India is the need·of the hour. If possible, assistance from other e-8P~ including Japan \/'loLild be taken. /COVT\+r;<-_~

VVo:-ld Ciass Stations need to be built. He stated that a separate Authoi'ity on the 3:~;:~r -

lir.2 e5 Airport Authority of india \Nould be est2blished, which would be called as ~tationi\uthc;(jty of I;ldia.

!a Local trains - Bangalore-Kenge!;i, Bangalore-lumkur, Bangalor~-Doddaballapur to be started.

Iia R"'ailways to share the cost of all the RoB I RuBs

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i" Time Schedule and Milestones of Tumkur-Shri Janardhana Swamy,

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• All the Railway Stations to be kept clean andI tidy.

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7. Address by the Hon'ble.Union Minister for Railways

7.1 The Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways stated that paucity of funds to take upnew projects is a serious issue. He congratulated the State of Karnataka for sharing

cost of the new projects and providing land free of cost. He also appreciated thecommendable work done by the State to expedite land acquisition for railway projects.He declared that these projects would b~ if1}plelJlented on a fast track mode andcompleted in a record time ...

7.2 Hon'ble Minister instructed Railway officials that MPs must be invited to Railwayfunctions. Officials are required to formally interact with the elected representatives atleast tw:ce a year as per the existing guidelines of Railways.

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Complete RoB near Shimoga Railway Stationc

early.Railways to discuss with the DeputyCommissioner, Shimoga to sort out the issue

.j regarding a piece of land 'abutting ring road atShimoga.

," Two RoB I RuBs at Gulbarga to be completedI early.

I· High Speed Train from Bangafore toBelgaumI should be started immediately.I. Existing Reservation Counter building at KR

I Puram Railway Station abutting NH should bei shifted to the other side of the Railway Station.

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19 Shri Basavaraj Bommai,Major Irrigation Minister

20 I Shri Nandish Reddy, MLA

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/e. 8. Remarks by the Chairman, Railway Board and the Member (Engineering)

8.1· The Chairman, Railway Board informed that 40 projects were undertaken inKarnataka at a cost of RS.14,614 crores, out of which 9 wor.ks have been completed ata cost of Rs.3,284 crores. The allocation for the current financial year is about RS.1,000crores for all the above projects. These include the railway share for projects on costsharing basis. He reiterated that wherever the State is sharing the cost of the projectand give land free of cost, such projects will be put on fast track and money of railwayshare would ·not be wasted OF thinly distributed.

8.2 He informed. that Gorakhpur-Yeshwantpur new Train would be startedimmediately. Hubli-Bijapur Passenger train would be extended upto Sholapur,Yeswantpur-Mangalore train would be extended upto Karwar, Sholapur-Gadag train tobe extended upto Hubli, Bangalore-Hubli Janshatabdi Express would be made a daily

train instead of 6 days-a-week. These would bejven effect to immediately.8.3 Shri A.P. Mishra, Member Engineering, Railway Board stated that once theprojects which are in offing are ,completed ,:;the ,rait, densityiin Jhe; State may be morethan the national average. He stated that Karnataka has, at present, 2,137 kms. of newline, 1,411 kms. of gauge conversion and 1,524 kms. of doubling. RoB I RuBs atTumkur and Shimoga would be completed by the end of March 2012.

9. Remarks by Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Railways

9.1 In consultation with the Hon'ble Union Railway Minister, Hon'ble MaS for·Railways anf!ounced the following new line~ to be taken up on fast track with 50% costsharing and land to be given free of cost by State Gov!.:

(1) Gadag-W08di (248 kms.) New Line(2) Kengeri-Kanakapura-Chamarajanagara (160 kms.) New Line·(3) Srinivasapura-Madanapalle (50 kms.) New Line

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9.2 The Hon'ble Minister also agreed to start Railway Coach Factory at Kolar on PPPbasis with a condition that the land should be given free of cost by the State Govt.

Hon'ble Chief Minister stated that a!1 theMPs should prioritize the \/'181:S in theirrespective constituencies and send the same to the Hon'ble Railvvay Minister and thesame may be considered by the Railway Ministry.

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Members Present:-

i. Sri. Dinesh Trivedi, Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways.2._ Sri. K.H. Muniyappa, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Railways.3. Sri. D.H. Shankara Murthy, Hon'ble Chairman joint Legislature Committee in

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4. Shri C.P. Yogishwar, Minister for Forest,Ecology, GoK.5. Shri Murugesh R. Nirani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries.,GOK6. Sri Dhananjaya Kumar, Special Representative, Government of Karnataka,

7. Shri. Basavaraj Bommai, Minister for Major and Medium Irrigation,GOK8. Shri Govind M. Karjol, Minister for Minor Irrigation and Kannada and Culture

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9. Sri. S. V. Ra.nganath, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka.1 D. Sri. Vinay Mittal, Chairman, Railway Board, New Delhi.11. Sri. AP. Mishra, Member Engineering, Railway Board, New Delhi. "12. Sri. Lakshminarayana, Secretary to Hon"ble Chief Minister.

13. Sri: I S r\JF'rasad., Princi8a."I".~e.c~eta.rit?~o"n."~!~. "~~j.~t~~in"ister.14. Sri. L.V.Nagarajan,PrinciparSecreiar')t6 GoK,FinanceDe"pf " "15. Sri. Ashok Kumar.C.Manoli, Principal Secretary to GoK,Revenu Dept.16.The Secretary to Govt. Public Works Department.17. Sri. P. Anand Kumar, Privatel Secsetaryd to Hon"ble , Ministry of State for

Railways.18. Srr. Gaddigoudar P C., Member of Pariiarnent, Bagalkot.

19. Sri. A. Suresh Angadi, Member of Parliament, Belgaum .20. Sri. Anantha Kumar Hegde, Member of Parliament, South CanaL21. Sri. G.S.Basavaraj. Member of Parliament, Tumkur.

22. Sri. Adagur H Vishwanath, Member of Parliament, Mysore23. Sri.R. Ohruvanarayana, Member of Pc:rliament, Chamrajanagar24. Sri.Siddeswara G.M, Member of Parliament, Davanagere.25. Sri. Katti Ramesh Vjshwanath, Member of ParJiament, Chikkodi

26. Sri. Nalin KumarKateel, Oakshina Kannada." "

27. Sri. Shivkumar Udas:, Member of Parliament, Haveri.

28. Sri. Shivaramagouda Shivanagouda, Member of Parliament Kopp~1.29. Sri. Prahiad Joshi, Dharwad.

30. Shri p,ayanur Manjunatha, Member of Par!;ament (RS), Mission Compound.P L,.....· T 'k l"';"'·v~"""'n""'''''a K~'r>...,t,..,l~...,;.osl-vn!Vamogga! . a!u.~- ":::Id ·d!J:.." ....~S _: . ~CJlf!O~O["\C1 .

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36. Sri. K.R. Niranjan, Special Commissioner, BBMP.

37.Sri. S. Somashekara, Chief Enginner, BBMP:

38. Sri. ChikkaMuniyappa, D.C. LAQ, BBMP ..39.Sri. P.M. Raghunandan, Principal Correspondent.

40.The Chief Project Manager, RVNL, 4th floor, DRM Office compl~x, Bangalore _560 023

.41. Sri N.S. Nandeesh Reddy,MLA, KoR Pura, Bangalore -560037.

42. The General Manager, South Western Railway, Hub/i.43. The Divisional Railway Manager, Mysore.44. The Divisional Railway Manager, Bangalore.

45. The Chief Administrative Officer, (Construction), South Western Railways, No.18, MiI!ers Road, Bangalore-46.

46 ..Sri. M. Nagaraja Hampole, Secretary to Government, Forest Department.

47. Sri. K. Subraya Kamatj;eputy Secretary, Forest Department48. Sri. S.N. Jayaram, Regional Commissioner, Bangalore.

49. Dr. D.C. Somashekar, DeputyCommi~sion~ri.TurnkWDistrict, Tumkur.50. Sri. S. S. Pattana Shetty, Deputy Commissioner, Davanagere District,

Davanagere.

51. Dr. Manjula N., Deputy Commissioner, Chikkaballapura Di&trict, Chikkaballapura.52. Sri. Manoj Kumar Meena, Deputy Commissioner, Kolar District, Kolar.53. Sri. Darpan Jain, Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad District, DharNad.

54. Sri. Vishal R, Depu.ty Commissioner, Gu!barga District, Gulbarga ..55.Sri. Ponnuraj, Deputy Commissioner, Shimoga District, Shimoga .

. 56. Sri. S. Puttaswamy, DeputyCornmissioner, Ramanagar District, Ramanagar....57. Sri. O.K. Rangaswamy, Deputy Commissioner, 'Chikkamaga!ur District,

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58. Sri. R.K: ~aju, Deputy Commissioner, Bangalore Rural District, Bangaiore.59. Smt. Thu!asi Maddineni, Deputy Commissioner, Kappal District, Koppa!.60. Sri. P.C. Jaffer, Deputy Commissioner, Mandya District, Mandya.

61. Sri. Jagadeesh K.G., Deputy Commissioner, Hassan District, Hassan.62.Sri. Vipul Bansal, Deputy Commissioner, Chitradurga District, Chitradurga.53. Sri. Sameer Shukla, Deputy Commissioner, Sidar District, Bidar ..64. Sri. Anbu Kumar. V, Deputy Commissioner, Raichur District, Raichur.65. Sri. AM. Kunjappa, Deputy Commissioner, Sagaikot District, Bagalkot.66. Sri. Puttamadayya, Additiona! Regional Commissioner, Bangaiore.67. Smt. Bharathi. P, Assistant Commissioner, Mysore.