All trains on Manglauru-Shoranur route to have electric locomotives

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December 11, 2017

Mangaluru, Dec 11: Railways will now be able to operate its traffic between Mangaluru and Kerala’s Shoranur entirely using electric locomotives with the long-awaited project to charge the electric feeder substation at the Uppala railway station to be executed by December.

The project gets a boost with the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) affirming that finishing touches are under way to charge the feeder substation by supplying 5 MW power.

It is expected to help Railways save up on fuel and augment speed of the trains moving along the 307-km-long Mangaluru-Shoranur stretch.

Having completed the complex 3-metre-deep horizontal pit to lay the high tension cables up to the feeder sub-station, the KSEB personnel are now working overtime to inspect the underground cable joint junctions.

The work was expected to be over by December 15 and the feeder sub-station, in all probability, could be charged by this month itself, P. Subbanna Naik, Assistant Executive Engineer attached to the KSEB’s Kubanur section, told The Hindu here on Friday.

“The Railway authorities concerned, on their part, are in regular touch with the KSEB unit here to ascertain the progress of the works and we have given firm assurance that the works could be executed by December,” he said.

A senior Railway official, in-charge of the track electrification works, had assured that the feeder substation at Uppala would enable Railways to run the passenger and freight traffic entirely on electric locomotives up to Mangaluru.

The power supply augmentation would also help Railways explore options to run more short-distance passenger and MEMU trains in future.

The feeder sub-station was scheduled to have been put into operational mode as early as May last, barely two months after the substation at Charvathur station got commissioned in March enabling Railways to run at least five pairs of express trains using electric locomotives.

The cable-laying works suffered a jolt after the National Highway Authority of India officials, in their bid to ensure smooth vehicular movement on the parallel road, urged the State electricity utility to suspend the works till end of monsoon period.

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April 23,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 23: Playing the role of a good samaritan, the owner of a commercial complex and houses has waived off a month’s rent at Panemangalore in Bantwal.

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Hailing from Barimaru, Mr Hassan, who was working in foreign country, has come down and settled here. He had constructed houses and commercial complex and was living on the rent he was receiving.

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July 26,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 26: Today, one of the Co-founders of Infosys, SD Shibulal announced that over the last three days (22nd - 24th July) his family members have sold a portion of (representing approximately 0.20 per cent of the paid-up equity share capital) their holding in Infosys Ltd on the stock exchanges.

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Mangaluru, Feb 19: The Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin Church elected Bishop Peter Paul Saldanha, Bishop of Mangalore, Karnataka, as the new Chairman of the CCBI Commission for Liturgy.

The Conference also elected 26 Bishops of the CCBI to participate in the three-week Golden Jubilee Conference of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) to be held in November 2020 at Bangkok in Thailand. The one day meeting of the CCBI discussed various matters affecting the Latin Catholic Church in India, which consists of 132 dioceses and 190 Bishops.

The CCBI animates the Church in India through its 16 Commissions and 4 Departments. Its main Secretariat is in Bangalore with extensions in Goa, Delhi and Pachmarhi (MP).

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