Coimbatore: Coimbatore Development Council (CDC) has started an online signature campaign, looking for the resumption of train services to the southern district of the city.
While the train service was suspended on a route a decade ago to facilitate the conversion of gauges, the service was not restored.
After completing work.
CDC members said they had long demanded the resumption of train services to the southern district to promote tourism and business, but in vain.
Snanmugasundaram, Member of the Madurai Division Railroad User Committee, said six trains run on Coimbatore-Polar-Dindigul-Madurai-Rameswaram route before 2009, when the gauge conversion work began.
After the settlement of the measuring conversion in 2017, he said, only the coimbatore-pollabi passenger train and coimbatore-madurai were introduced.
However, they are stopped during the pandemic induced locking.
He said they had hit for the commencement of train services from Coimbatore to Madurai through Pollachi, which was stopped 10 years ago.
“Coimbatore must be connected to Tirunelveli by intercity day and Rameswaram trains with express trains overnight every day as in the past.
Both trains are used to discuss pollachi, palani, dindigul and madurai.” J Sathish, Coordinator, CDC, said they decided to Running a signature campaign to make train authorities understand the importance and needs of the suspended train service.
“The campaign will continue until they reintroduce six trains.
We have appealed to people in Coimbatore, Pollachi, Udumalpet, Mettupalayam, Palani, Dindigul, Madurai, Virudhunagar, and Tirunelveli to expand support to the signature campaign.” He said ID Email from South Senior Railway Officers, and Salem, Madurai and Palakkad Railway Division officials were included in the online campaign.
“Every time the online petition reaches an important milestone (in terms of the number of signs), the officials will receive a letter with feedback from signatories.”