Bureaucratic tussle within Kerala Rail Development Corporation Ltd. (KRDCL), special purpose vehicle for executing viable rail projects in Kerala on a cost-sharing basis with Railways, has cost the fledgling entity dear with it losing a major work in the State.
According to sources, the KRDCL, also known as K-Rail, could not take part in the tender invited for the expansion of the Kozhikode railway station, a ₹450-crore project, due to the power struggle within the top hierarchy of the corporation.
K-Rail and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) have agreed to participate in the tender. However, the KRDCL could not keep its word to the RVNL after the Director of Finance, KRDCL, reportedly refused to go ahead with the tendering work.