RailEnquiry

General Manager of the South Western Railway Ashok Kumar Mital has said that the new Hubli railway station will be inaugurated in approximately a month.Speaking to presspersons here on Monday, after accompanying Pralhad Joshi, MP, on an inspection of ongoing works at the new station, Mr. Mital said the station would become functional once basic facilities were set up.Later, addressing the media, Mr. Joshi said that MPs from Karnataka would be forced to stage a dharna in New Delhi if the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express was not made a daily train and if the route was not changed to via Tumkur, Davangere, Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum.He said that Sampark Kranti Express trains were introduced to ensure connectivity between State capitals and the National Capital. “However, in the case of the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express, once it departs from Yeshwantpur, it covers only 60km in Karnataka. It then enters Andhra Pradesh where it stops at many places,” he said.Mr. Joshi said that as there were already 10 express trains running between Andhra Pradesh and New Delhi, there was no need to run the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express via Andhra Pradesh.