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Tuesday, Jul 8, 2025
The apex court's May 9 order, as if sounding the wake-up call for the development hawks, said that if there was a conflict between ecology and growth, ecology would prevail.
In the latest development in this regard, a document obtained under the Right to Information Act says that NITI Aayog has calculated that the project would cost Rs 1,26,081 crore.
The second SilverLine debate held in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday saw a brutal attack on the methods employed by Kerala Rail Development Corporation (K-Rail) to push for the SilverLine semi high speed project.
The K-Rail said in its official page that the two panelists had backed out on their own for 'flimsy reasons'.
The protesters allegedly manhandled Arun Kumar, an engineer with the Kerala Rail Development Corporation Ltd (K-Rail), which is implementing the project.
Though RVG also raised serious environmental concerns posed by the SilverLine project, these were not seriously addressed by the other members of the panel.
The same party that bats for bringing together different opinions to a common platform, however, does not want Joseph C Mathew to participate in a debate on the controversial SilverLine semi-high-speed rail corridor.
His remarks come in the backdrop of a police personnel brutally kicking anti K-Rail protesters with his boots the other day.
The technical debate on the proposed SilverLine project, organised at the behest of the state govt, is being held at Thiruvananthapuram.
The latest argument between those opposing the project and Kerala Rail Development Corporation Ltd (K-Rail), which is the implementing agency, is over who is organising the debate.
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