SilverLine needs less mud than highways: K-Rail chief
The Hindu
‘It has the potential to wean away people from personalised and other modes of commute’
The 530-km-long SilverLine semi-high speed rail corridor will need approximately 50 % less mud and aggregate for its embankment and for the 88 kms elevated tracks, than that for a 45-m-wide NH, said V Ajithkumar, the MD of KRDCL (K-Rail).
He termed as one-sided, statements by critics of the project that the embankment would lead to erasure of vast many hills and rocks to source mud and aggregate.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.