Demands for the rail budget put forward :Ahead of the Railway Budget 2015-16 to be presented on February 26, various activists working for improving the railway network in coastal Karnataka have urged the Railway Ministry to address some of the long-pending demands of the region with regard to connectivity as well as creation of a separate Railway Division in Mangaluru. A few of the demands as follows.
1. Reintroduction of Mangalore Central-Miraj Mahalakshmi Express via Arsikere
2. Creation of separate Railway Division at Mangaluru. or its merger with the Konkan Railway
3. New...
more... trains should be introduced from Mangaluru to Hyderabad via Arsikere and Chikkajajur overnight Express train to Vijayapura via Madgaon, Londa and Hubli;
4. Overnight Express train to Bengaluru via Arsikere;
5. Super fast AC Express to Mumbai and Rameshwaram via Salem;
6. Vasco-da-Gama to Chennai via Mangaluru, are the other demands
7. Mangaluru-Thiruvananthapuram Maveli Express should be extended to Kanyakumari;
8. Hapa-Madgaon Express to Mangalore Central,
9. Mangaluru-Madgaon Intercity Express to Hubballi
10. Increase Howrah –Mangalore express to daily.
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