
Sabari rail project lacks State support: Centre
The Hindu
‘Local protests against land acquisition has delayed project’
Local protests against land acquisition, litigation and inadequate response from the State Government have hampered the progress of the 116-km-long Sabari rail project, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Replying to a question raised by Adoor Prakash in the House, he said the work on the Angamali-Kalady and Kalady-Perumbavoor stretches could not be taken forward due to these reasons. This, he said, had delayed the project and thus increased the cost estimate from ₹550 crore in 1997 when the project was sanctioned to ₹1,566 crore in 2011 and further to ₹2,815 crore in 2017.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.