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Pramod Madhwaraj, MLA, has demanded a separate Konkan Railway Division comprising Mangalore, Madgaon and Ratnagiri areas.In a press release issued here on Wednesday, Mr. Madhwaraj said that he had put forward this suggestion at the Konkan Railway Consumers Advisory Committee meeting of Konkan Railway held at Belapur in Maharashtra.The Ullal bridge and New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) areas in Mangalore should come under the proposed division. Though the length of Konkan Railway was actually 961 kilometres, it was now 940 km because NMPT had been kept in a different railway zone. If the NMPT was included in Konkan Railway, its annual income would go up by Rs. 200 crore.A passenger train should be started from Vasco-da-Gama to Mangalore. The Bhatkal-Thokur train should be extended to Karwar. The Karwar-Bangalore train was taking a long time to reach its destinations. Hence, an alternative route Nandikur-Karkala-Ujire-Charmadi-Mudigere (220 km) should be developed, Mr. Madhwaraj said. The meeting was chaired by president of the Committee Bhanu Prakash Tayal.