New Children’s Train to Chug off in Nov at Kadri Park – MLA J R Lobo
Mangaluru: MLA J R Lobo inaugurated the New Children’s train project work at Kadri Park here on August 19.
After inaugurating the New Children’s train project work, Lobo speaking to the mediapersons said, “In our city, we have only one park and from the past three years, we are trying to run the train for children at the Park. From the past 5 years, the train has stopped running in the park. Due to some reasons, we were unable to start running the train. At present, work of the new train is in progress at the Railway workshop in Mysuru. The track work has been under taken by the Nirmithi Kendra. The total cost of the train is Rs 1.09 crore and the work will complete in three months. By November the new children’s train will chug off at the Kadri Park.”
Lobo further said, “The musical fountain work has also been completed and we are planning to inaugurate the Musical Fountain as well as the Children’s train by inviting the Chief Minister and Minister for Women and Child Welfare because the Women and Child Welfare department has taken special interest in having a children’s train in the park. Hope Nirmithi Kendra will complete the work in time.”
Addressing the mediapersons ZP CEO Dr M R Ravi said, “From the past five years the train was not running in the park. We tried to dispose of the old train thrice, without getting proper bidders we could not dispose of the train. We cannot wait any longer to dispose of the old train, so we have started our work. The work of the New Train is going on in Mysuru and Nirmithi Kendra has come forward to do the track job. By November the Children’s train will once again start running in the park.
Corporator of the ward Roopa D Bangera also spoke on the occasion. Corporator Lancelot Pinto, Rajendra Kalbavi, director, Nirmiti Kendra and others were also present.