Silverline: Foreign loan will burden Kerala, says ex-Railways chief engineer Alok Verma

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The foreign loan offered for Silverline is a deception by funding agencies that present it as a sweetener, former Railways chief engineer Alok Kumar Verma said here on Wednesday. At a parallel debate on SilverLine, organised by the People’s Resistance Council, Verma said the Railway Board should withdraw the in-principle nod given for the semi-high-speed rail project. The foreign loan would be a burden on the state, he pointed out.