Malgudi Express: From the pages of RK Narayan to the railway tracks of Mysore. - Vageesh

I'm not just thinking of the present but also of the future. With Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Corridor the scope of extension is greater than what this project is giving. Already the talks are up to link Ahmedabad-Delhi via Udaipur and Jaipur and future consideration of Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Bangalore. Ik that the people of Kerala do not migrate outside of the state but people from outside come in the state to work and travel. Nobody would want to come in an Express train of IR and would want to switch trains at Kasargod or vice versa. Other thing is tell me a single major project of India that has met the predicted cost of building that project. For God's sake they haven't even started to process anything. This has been going on for years. And it will definitely take another millions years to even get the construction going because of the environmental impact on...
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the landscape and land acquisition. Never judge any book by its cover. When the Ahmedabad-Mumbai project was laid out, I was very skeptical of how things are gonna play out but this turned out to be a great fast pacing move, exception to MH. But this line will be cash cow no matter what because just look at the revenue of Shatabadi. It's flowing money left and right and ik that being a Gujarati myself. How many times people go to Mumbai to have fun. The businesses and all are gonna boom around this line and the extension to Delhi is just Cherry on top of the cake.