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Sreedharan pushes Kerala bullet train plan despite no mention in Budget 2026
Updated On: 02 February, 2026 03:15 PM IST | Malappuram (Kerala) | ANI
E Sreedharan opened an office in Ponnani to start work on a proposed Thiruvananthapuram–Kannur high-speed rail project, despite Kerala being excluded from the Union Budget 2026 rail corridors. He said DPR and survey work will begin soon, expressing confidence of central approval
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`Metroman` E Sreedharan. File Pic
'Metroman' E Sreedharan on Monday opened an office in Ponnani in Kerala's Malappuram district for a proposed high-speed rail project in the State.
The development comes despite Kerala finding no mention in the Union Budget 2026-27 presented in Parliament a day ago regartding he 7 high-speed rail corridors. The corridors included in the central budget include Mumbai-Pune, Pune-Hyderabad, Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Hyderabad-Chennai, Chennai-Bengaluru, Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri.
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