MPs demand Bangalore-Mangalore train extension to Karwar

MPs demand Bangalore-Mangalore train extension to Karwar

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Dec 17: MP of Mangalore Nalin Kumar Kateel and MP of Udupi-Chikmagalur D V Sadananda Gowda requested K Muniyappa, the union minister of state for railways to extend the day and night trains from Mangalore to Bangalore to Karwar in Uttara Kannada through Udupi and Kundapura. 

In a letter to Union Minister Muniyappa, the two MPs said that the extension of the Bangalore-Mangalore train was against the best interests of the people of coastal Karnataka. Political forces were responsible for it. 

In their letter to Muniyappa, the two MPs stated that the railway along Bangalore, Hassan, and Mangalore generated a lot of profit. The railway is the only connection between Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka, and Mangalore, the only port city of Karnataka. They said that people in thousands commute along these railways. Also, the railways are used to transport millions of tonnes of iron ore for the purpose of shipping. 

They said that the benefits of the people of Karnataka have been forcibly snatched away from them.