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SC Committee Recommends Scrapping Of Indian Railways Line Doubling Project Between Goa And Karnataka Supreme Court of India (DD News) In a setback to infrastructure development plans, the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended withdrawal of the environmental approval to doubling of the single line railway track between Tinaighat in North Karnataka and the port town of Vasco da Gama in Goa. This railway line doubling project was sanctioned by the Ministry of Railways in 2010. It includes doubling of the existing Hospet-Tinaighat-Vasco railway line of a total length of 342 kilometres. While the first phase between Hospet and Tinai ghat which is laid atop the largely flat Deccan plateau had already been completed, the second phase between Tinaighat and Vasco da Gama which crosses through steep slopes, raging rivers and the thick forests of the Western Ghats was contested.

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