You're right. Then what should be next solution or approach, seems like railways taking it as granted for Mangaluru for being in SR and neglecting KA region.

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Good question. I guess if you see earlier as well I think Gulbarga div was announced in rail budget. Not implemented till date. Similarly no idea of the new rail zone in AP after carving out of the new state. New zone or new div is highly unlikely. I think the only chance when some realignment can possibly happen is if and when in future KR becomes part of Indian railways. That can be a good opportunity for railways to do some realignment. I have read reports that there are associations in Coastal MH & Karnataka who have been advocating of merging KR with IR.

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It is high time realignment of zones is done in south India.

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Yeah, there looks some possibility after KR Merger with SWR/CR. Because of no development and negligence, there are high chances KR can dissolve.

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Yes that is precisely the issue with KR. All other zones in India somewhere or the other are having upgrade in infra, station redevelopment & so on, but nothing in KR due to lack of funds. I remember seeing some proposals of the annual time table committee couple of years ago where some train proposed by SR or CR was rejected by KR stating that they desperately need to preserve some paths for goods train so that they get some revenues. Merging of KR with IR will be good from long term stand point but are there any technical difficulties in doing this ?

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