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The Thiruvananthapuram–Mangalore high-speed passenger corridor was a proposed high-speed rail corridor in India that would connect the capital city of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram with Mangalore in Karnataka. In February 2014, the Indian media reported that the state government had shelved the project. ==History== The Thiruvananthapuram – Mangalore high-speed passenger corridor was mooted in the 2009-10 budget speech of the LDF government. The project was cleared by the State Cabinet in February 2010. The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) was appointed as the nodal agency to develop the project. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) conducted the pre-feasibility study of the project. DMRC submitted a detailed project report (DPR) for the project by July 2013. In September 2011, a special purpose vehicle, the Kerala High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (KHSRC) was formed to implement the project. The Ministry of Railways has stated that the project is feasible and has expressed full support for the project. Approximately 800 hectares of land will have to be acquired for the project. 250 hectares of land has to be acquired for the 200 km stretch from Thiruvananthapuram to Ernakulam. This will displace 1600 to 1700 families. The corridor was expected to be ready by March 2020. In February 2014, the state government shelved the project.''The Times of India'' quoted unnamed sources as stating, "It has not been scrapped officially, but it is at a dead stage. The estimated project cost has almost doubled now, and the more the delay, the costlier the project would become." The cost of constructing the project was estimated to be 1.80 lakh crore, much higher than the originally estimated 1 lakh crore.〔(High speed rail project shelved by planning board - The Times of India )〕〔http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=16193075&tabId=1&programId=11565535〕〔(Kerala pauses work on high-speed rail corridor project - News Oneindia )〕 80% of the cost was proposed to be funded by JICA, and the remaining 20% by the State and Central governments. On March 2014, T. Balakrishnan, Chairman and Managing Director of KHSRCL, told the newspaper "The Hindu" that Kochi could be the nodal point for the high-speed rail project in Kerala. He denied that the project had been scrapped. The high-speed rail corridor project proposed by the State government between Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod is likely to be revamped in the wake of the Union government’s plan to extend the Bangalore-Coimbatore high-speed rail project to Kochi. The State government is understood to be keen on seeking the Union government’s approval to extend the latter project to Thiruvananthapuram. On October 2014, Kerala Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy told that the government wishes to implement the project of High Speed Rail Corridor, and that the project is stalled due to protests which have arisen. He also told that the survey is completed and the project will be implemented only with support of people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thiruvananthapuram–Mangalore high-speed passenger corridor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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