{"id":174368,"date":"2008-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-for-new-railway-line-between-madurai-tuticorin-via-on-16-december-2008"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:29:32","slug":"need-for-new-railway-line-between-madurai-tuticorin-via-on-16-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-for-new-railway-line-between-madurai-tuticorin-via-on-16-december-2008","title":{"rendered":"Need For New Railway Line Between Madurai-Tuticorin Via &#8230; on 16 December, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need For New Railway Line Between Madurai-Tuticorin Via &#8230; on 16 December, 2008<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>                                          &gt; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>: Need for new railway line between Madurai-Tuticorin via  Aruppukottai.   <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=%2ASHRI%20P.MOHAN%20\">*SHRI P.MOHAN <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=MADURAI\">MADURAI<\/a>) : Both before independence and after independence the southern districts in Tamil Nadu including Madurai have not got any impetus towards industrial growth.\u00a0 The southern districts continue to remain industrially backward because no heavy industries and big manufacturing industries have come up there as no effort towards it has been made either by the Centre or by the State Governments.\u00a0 It is all because of inadequate infrastructure facilities. Over the years all the Governments have remained indifferent.\u00a0 Even among cotton mills and textile mills established both before and after independence, many of them have been closed.\u00a0 I urge upon the Union Government to go in for setting up heavy industries in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu.\u00a0 Madurai has got a airport and Tuticorin has got a sea port.\u00a0These two are currently linked by railway through a rail line running via Kovilpatti.\u00a0 A new railway line must be laid between Madurai and Tuticorin via Aruppukkottai and Vilathikulam.\u00a0 It is also necessary to operationalise the existing Madurai\u2013Aruppukkottai line that has been delayed due to the pending gauge conversion work.\u00a0 Kindly ensure early completion of laying railway lines to give a pep to developing infrastructure facilities there.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need For New Railway Line Between Madurai-Tuticorin Via &#8230; on 16 December, 2008 &gt; Title: Need for new railway line between Madurai-Tuticorin via Aruppukottai. *SHRI P.MOHAN (MADURAI) : Both before independence and after independence the southern districts in Tamil Nadu including Madurai have not got any impetus towards industrial growth.\u00a0 The southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need For New Railway Line Between Madurai-Tuticorin Via ... on 16 December, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-for-new-railway-line-between-madurai-tuticorin-via-on-16-december-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need For New Railway Line Between Madurai-Tuticorin Via ... on 16 December, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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