The ₹63,000-crore SilverLine semi-high-speed rail project poses a grave threat to Kerala’s socio-economic fields and the environment, former chief engineer of Indian Railway Alok Verma has said.
The ill-conceived project would be a pathway to hell, he said, while addressing a State-level cultural meeting organised here on Monday evening by a conclave of organisations under the banner of Kerala Samsthana Janakeeya Prathirodha Samithi. “I wonder how the State government has been portraying such a disastrous project as one that would become Kerala’s pride. Geological and hydrological surveys for the project were not done before readying its detailed project report,” he said.
