Demand mounts for direct trains between Mysuru and Mumbai

Demand for daily train services b/w Mysuru & Mumbai is growing due to Mysuru's development as a start-up hub. Pratap Simha, Mysuru MP, met the Minister for Railways to discuss projects & proposed new mega textile park in Mysuru. Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway & Mysuru airport expansion will attract talent from across India. Pratap Simha urged the Minister to consider extending train no 1130/02 CST Mumbai-KSR Bengaluru City Udyan Express to Mysuru. This will enable daily direct train connectivity & transport of coffee, spices, finished products & handicrafts.

Is the demand for daily train connectivity between Mysuru, the cultural capital of Karnataka, and Mumbai, the financial capital of India, growing with Mysuru emerging as a premier start-up hub?

According to Pratap Simha, Mysuru MP, the demand for daily train services between the two cities has become the need of the hour considering the demand generated among the travelling public with Mysuru seeing a lot of development.

He said the city is now well-placed for innovation spirit, co-working, incubation, academic, and early stage acceleration programmes that facilitate the influx of talent pool of labour from across the country.

The International Semiconductor Consortium (ISMC) will be setting up India’s first chip-making plant in Mysuru and this facility has the potential to generate employment opportunities both direct and in the ancillary ecosystem, the MP said, in a letter to Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Mr. Simha met the Minister in New Delhi and discussed the Mysuru-centric projects with him.

He said the proposed new mega textile park in Mysuru holds the promise of nearly ten thousand jobs and help in economic development besides attracting huge investments and infrastructure development in the region. Likewise, the silk cluster in Mysuru will be one of the six to be created across the country as a labour intensive industry.

The 119-km Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway and the expansion of Mysuru airport will undoubtedly contribute to the growth trajectory of Mysuru as an alternative IT hub to Bengaluru. It heralds the beginning of the movement of a large number of skilled and unskilled labour to the Mysuru region from every part of the country, especially Maharashtra and Gujarat, the MP said in the letter.