Title - Shashi Tharoor pushes Railways for fast developmental works at Nemom

Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor has assured that the railway development at Nemom would become a reality soon.

Inaugurating the 20th half-yearly meet of the Federation of Residents’ Associations, Thiruvananthapuram (FRAT), he said,” Thampanoor railway station would be raised to global standards. New booking station, escalators and other facilities would be set up here. An amount of Rs 10 crore was allocated for this”. He also said that the Kazhakoottam-Kaliyikkavila bypass construction would be started soon.

The prospect of developing the ship building unit at Poovar as a unit of the Kochi shipyard would also be considered.

Former Union Minister and BJP leader O Rajagopal, M Vijayakumar, M R Thampan, K Viswanathan, Kadakampally Surendran, Karamana Jayan, G Santhakumar, Nandakumar (IAS) and Madhavan Kutty also attended. National award winning teachers were honoured at the function. Mithranikethan director K Viswanathan was also honoured.

FRAT president Pattom Sasidharan Nair, general secretary Maruthamkuzhy Satheesh Kumar, treasurers C Manoharan Nair and others spoke.