K-Rail project: SC refuses to stay land survey

THE SUPREME Court on Monday refused to stay the land survey and social impact assessment for the proposed K-Rail Silverline project, a semi-speed rail corridor linking the southern and northern ends of Kerala.

A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna dismissed the appeal filed against an order of the Kerala High Court Division Bench allowing the survey. The Division Bench had stayed a Single Bench order which stayed the survey for the project which has come under massive protests.

Junking the appeal, the SC said, “The Single Judge ought to have appreciated that by such ad interim order the prestigious project couldn’t have been stalled.”