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rom   krishna kumar pande <pandekk@gmail.com>
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date   Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM
subject   Fwd: Railway network in the hills
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I would like to submit that if this country has to develop more faster and if the State of Uttarakhand has really to develop and fulfill the aspirations of the youth, and those who laid their lives for the state we need a serious attention of connectivity and development beyond the foothills.

China has made road and railways to the border and we cannot have a road to the border. Our roads from Almora side to the hills are in bad shape after the present monsoon, the road from Tanakpur to Champawat and Pithoragarh is full of slides. The widening of the road for the Dhauliganga Project is still not complete, though the project is complete and generating power.

From Rishikesh up the hills the widening of the road for Char Dham yatra is again in bad shape.
Rail link up hills has not been thought off till date and remains as left by the Birtishers.

Would suggest the following.

1. Use modern day technology to drill through the hills to get the rail link to the valleys in the hills.
2. Target could be to get to Karnapriyag, Gairsain (The future capital), Bageshwar, Pithoragarh.

Nothing is impossible in today's world of technology. The will is required.

Better late than never, the country needs to rise above party politics and see what the country needs in the long run. Development of barren hills with migrated population an easy approach to the neighbors and an infiltrated jungle.
Submitted to the committee.
Note: I can be available to share my experience in life to suggest methodology in an honorary capacity.

Prof K.K.Pande
B.Sc(Engg) Civil, MTech(Remote Sensing) GOLD MEDAL
PhD Management
 

दोस्तों क्या हमारे मेल भेजने इनको कुछ फर्क पडेगा?कोशियारी जी क्या उत्तराखंड में कभी रेल चलेगी या आप सब ऐसे ही सपने दिखाते रहोगे उत्तराखंड की जनता को और पिछले दस सालों में आपने उत्तराखंड के किन किन जिल्लों को रेलवे से जोड़ा है ?

I will also send my views today...

I belive each of our mail will count there. It will show majority to the case.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:07 PM, BS Kholia <bskholia_bsi@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

     

    Dear Mehta JI/ and all Friends

    Hill Railways !! A Great issue

    Good news that our prominent figure Bhagat Da is Chairman of the committee.

    My view are here

    First thing I feel, Is Govt. really interested to construct railways in hills or they want to engage some learned members in this issue ?? Because the condition of existing railway I feel not healthy, No trains runs as per scheduled time, large number of passengers, scarcity of accommodation, less numbers of trains………………..etc.etc..

    Unequal sharing out of facilities and railway budget (as everybody knows most of the rail tracks, projects are in Bihar and W. B., many trains runs in these states. There is separate Rajdhani for Patna and moreover Patna quota is available  in every Rajdahni train passing from there. Between Delhi and Kolkata more than a dozen trains are available, including two Rajdhani trains Howrah and Syaldah on the other hand for eight north eastern states there is only one Rajdhani train and fewer number of other trains. As everybody knows that large number of military persons, paramilitary forces, Central Govt. employees are also deployed in these sensitive states ).   In spite of nearness to Delhi least railway budget is utilized for the development of railways in Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.   THus there is urgent need for more Rajdhani trains for N. E. India or N. E. Himalaya, like SIkim Rajdhani Delhi to New Jalpigudi, Meghalaya Rajdhani, Similarly more trains should go to Uttrakhand and HImanchal.

    Second thing I want to say that if Govt. really interested to provide the railway facilities to hill / Himalayan peoples of India, first they must provide more facilities to hill peoples in existing infrastructure of railways and simultaneously  also explore the possibilities of railway lines in hills. I want to justify my thoughts as follow.

    1.      Most of the existing rail tracks are constructed during British Raj. Journey from West to E. Himalaya takes 3- 4 days ( from Jammu to Dibrugarh depending upon the train) plus hill journey of both sides. For that instead going to Delhi, Kanpur , Mughalsarai, Patana or Lucknow, Chpra, Hazipur we should explore new sub-Himalayan Rail tracks for hill peoples. These tracks will reduce the pressure on existing lines on the one hand and on the other hand hill people can reach their destination in short duration.  One such rail track I am proposing here is Jammutawai- Pathankote- Una- Chandigarh- Dehradun-Rishikesh- Kotdwar- Ramnagar, Haldwani- Tanakpur- Piibhit-Puranpur-Mailani—Nepalganj-TUlshipur- Bagaha- Ruxol-Setamani- Madhubani- Jogbani-SIliguri- Guwahati. Moreover many of the above stations are presently also connected with rail lines. For that Govt. must construct a separate sub-Himalayan or Himalayan railway division.

    2.      In second phase like existing hill/ heritage trains ( Darjeeling train; Kangravalley train, Kalka Shimala train or recently sanctioned Sikkim railroad from Siliguri to Singtham/Ramphoo 51 Km along river Teesta) Hills should be connected to this Sub-Himalayan railroad via our river valleys or tunnels depending upon feasibility of hills.  some examples of such rail roads are Tanakpur- Pancheshwer- Jhulagaht- Jauljibi; Pancheswer - Seraghat- Bageshwar; Ramnagar- Garjia-Betalgaht- Khairna- Almora- Garud;  Una – Bilaspur- Rampur …..; Similarly along Satluj valley etc.

     

    Throughout the Himalaya there  are plenty of tunnels are made for the Hydroelectric projects thus depending upon feasibility of rocks and altitudinal gradient railway tunnels can be constructed in hills. As in Europe recently railway tunnel is completed across the Alps (both Himalaya and Alps are rencet mountains in the history of earth); construction of  such tunnels is one time investment. Some example of constructing such tunnels is striking my mind is from Chalthi (Champawat) to Ghat (Pithoragarh); Ramnagar to Khairna in Nainital etc.

    THanks & Regards