Hubli Railway Division protet in Hosur

Protest: Members of Hosur Payanigal Membattu Sangam staging a demonstration in front of the Hosur Railway Station on Sunday.

HOSUR: Hosur Payanigal Membattu Sangam has demanded bringing rail routes near Hosur under Salem Railway Division and accused the Hubli Railway Division of sidelining Tamil Nadu’s interests.

Opposing the “step-motherly” treatment being meted out by the Hubli Railway Division, more than 700 members, including 200 women and children, staged a demonstration in front of the Hosur Railway Division on Sunday. They said their agitations and petitions to Railway authorities, Central ministers and peoples’ representatives did not evoke the desired response.

The association demanded train services to Chennai from Hosur via Bangalore until a permanent rail link was established between Jolarpet to Hosur via Krishnagiri and asked for extension of the recently introduced Bangalore-Anekkal train to Hosur.

It also sought introduction of Bangalore-Hosur-Erode fast passenger, operation of Nagercoil-Mumbai express weekly thrice, halt of Kochchuveli-Yeshwantpur Garibrath express at Hosur.

It also asked for a new train service between Mysore-Rameswaram via Hosur, daily inter-city train to Bangalore from Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore, creation of new rail route to Jolarpet from Hosur via Krishnagiri and early implementation of the Karur-Salem railway line project. Krishsnadoss, vice-president, Hosur Payanigal Membatttu Sangam led the agitation. R. Ramalingam, president, HOSTIA, Durai, president,

Federation of Residents’ Welfare Association, Hosur, and Venkatrama Reddy, former Hosur MLA participated.

Hosur-Krishnagiri road project goes to Relince-Infra

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani-owned Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) on Thursday announced that it had won the Rs.925-crore Hosur-Krishnagiri road project from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in Tamil Nadu.

The six-laning of the 60-km Hosur-Krishnagiri stretch on NH 7 will be built on design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) toll basis. “Reliance Infrastructure is happy to win the Hosur–Krishnagiri project, which is the 10th road project of the company,” the company said in a statement here.

The Hosur-Krishnagiri project will start generating revenue immediately after achieving financial closure which is expected within the next six months. The company will spend on the six-laning and maintenance of Hosur-Krishnagiri section of NH-7. The company said it bagged the project facing stiff competition from 15 other bidders based on highest premium amount of Rs.66.90 crore.

Krishnagiri-Puducherry NH requires repair

Mr. Sugavanam made an appeal at the Lok Saba recently that the NH 66 was converted to National Highways three years ago, immediately after that the government allocated Rs. 700 crore for repairing the damaged road. In spite of this, the maintenance work is yet to start on this stretch of 200 km.

The M.P. demands the Ministry of Highways to take up the project on SOS basis to benefit lakhs of people including foreigners who throng in large numbers at the Thiruvannamalai Shrine Temple and the GIPMER hospital and Aravindar Ashram in Puducherry.

Due to the absence of maintenance work, the road was badly damaged and the condition was unmotorable in several stretches leading to frequent accidents.

3 daily wage workers died of electrocution in Krishnagiri

Three daily wage workers were died of electrocution while erecting a flag-post for a religious outfit on Sunday.

According to police, R. Ananthan, S. Suresh both hailing from Annamalai Nagar and N. Udayakumar of Chinna Elathagiri were electrocuted and thrown for some distance when the flag-post they were erecting came in to contact with a overhead live wire.

They were rushed to Hosur General Hospital and were pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

It was told that Ananthan and Suresh were cadres of Hindu Munnani and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam.

Bodies of the employees were handed over to the families of the deceased. Hosur SIPCOT police have registered a case and investigating.