Coimbatore: After train users and selected representatives, industrial bodies in Coimbatore and Nilgiris have written to the train to improve train infrastructure in the district.
30 Industrial Agencies in the district have written to the Ashwini Vaishnaw train minister demanding train services in Coimbatore.
With existing infrastructure, the electric train service is a major coiling line (a memory) can begin in the district, which has a population of around 20 lakh.
While the proposal has been delayed for more than a decade, stakeholders pressure it as an important need of growing cities.
They want the train to return five trips between Mettupalayam and Coimbatore from one trip.
They also demanded overnight train service restoration for Rameswaram will also facilitate the movement of convenient goods.
The train must be ply via pollachi, palani, dindigul and madurai.
“We have asked the authorities to restore the train service from Coimbatore to Tamil Nadu Selatan through Pollachi, which was stopped by the conversion gauge of 10 years ago.
But the train authority has not returned all trains,” said B Mohan Raj, Secretary of the Welfare Association of Pollengers Train Pollenchi.
“We plan to tie all representations and give them to MPs, the train minister, chairman of the Railroad and General Manager of Railhern Railways,” said J Sathish, Coimbatore Development Board Coordinator.
Boost rail infra, say industrial body
