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There is no second thought in me while saying that... Konkan Railway is an apt and beautiful ornament to the Western Ghats.
Today the Konkan Railway, wends its fast and safe way through scenic country not despoilt by the pieces of engineering created for it. In fact Konkan Railway is an Indian triumph in many areas: engineering, efficiency, innovation, economy, speed, environmental awareness, public relations, aesthetics and service. A 760 kM rail path, laid on fairly flat rails over rivers and valleys and through mountains and gorges, it was designed and built by Indian engineers in a record time of eight years! It is a feat of civil engineering that the British had contemplated a century ago and but they abandoned the project as being too formidable. But we Indians didn't .. After all we Indians know the ornament making..
Its story is worth telling in some detail.
It was a sweeping challenge and our Government and Railways met its hero in Dr. E. Sreedharan, a veteran railway man known for brisk efficiency. George Fernandes persuaded him out of his retirement and made him the Chairman and Managing Director of Konkan Railway.
Sreedharan faced this 'to-do' list :
~ 760 kM of rails to be laid with little gradient.
~ 2000 bridges to build
~ 92 tunnels totaling 83kM to bore
~ 42,000 landowners to deal with to acquire 4,850 hectares of land
~ 4 state governments to interact with
~ Rs.2250 crores to be raised
~ Life-styles and environment to be least disturbed
Sreedharan and Our Engineers surely succeeded in getting the 'to-do' list to 'DONE' list...
Go on a train ride on konkan Railway.. You will suerly realise that Indian engineering skills is not only excellent but definitely has gone poetic and heroic in the Western Ghats...
There is no second thought in me while saying that... Konkan Railway is an apt and beautiful ornament to the Western Ghats.
Today the Konkan Railway, wends its fast and safe way through scenic country not despoilt by the pieces of engineering created for it. In fact Konkan Railway is an Indian triumph in many areas: engineering, efficiency, innovation, economy, speed, environmental awareness, public relations, aesthetics and service. A 760 kM rail path, laid on fairly flat rails over rivers and valleys and through mountains and gorges, it was designed and built by Indian engineers in a record time of eight years! It is a feat of civil engineering that the British had contemplated a century ago and but they abandoned the project as being too formidable. But we Indians didn't .. After all we Indians know the ornament making..
Its story is worth telling in some detail.
It was a sweeping challenge and our Government and Railways met its hero in Dr. E. Sreedharan, a veteran railway man known for brisk efficiency. George Fernandes persuaded him out of his retirement and made him the Chairman and Managing Director of Konkan Railway.
Sreedharan faced this 'to-do' list :
~ 760 kM of rails to be laid with little gradient.
~ 2000 bridges to build
~ 92 tunnels totaling 83kM to bore
~ 42,000 landowners to deal with to acquire 4,850 hectares of land
~ 4 state governments to interact with
~ Rs.2250 crores to be raised
~ Life-styles and environment to be least disturbed
Sreedharan and Our Engineers surely succeeded in getting the 'to-do' list to 'DONE' list...
Go on a train ride on konkan Railway.. You will suerly realise that Indian engineering skills is not only excellent but definitely has gone poetic and heroic in the Western Ghats...
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