Kerala High Court tells the Railways to complete the Nilambur-Nanjangud detailed project report by October 14

9 October 2026

A bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V M directed the Railways to prepare the detailed project report for the Nilambur-Nanjangud railway line by October 14.
On that date the Railways must file an affidavit stating whether the report has been placed before the competent authority for approval and sanction.
The plea was moved by C N Vijayakrishnan, chairman of the Kozhikode-based Cancer and Allied Ailment Research Foundation, which runs the MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute.
He argued that Malabar needs railway connectivity and that the authorities had not considered his representations.
The Railways' affidavit of July 27, 2026 said the Railway Board had sanctioned a final location survey and that a LIDAR survey and a traffic survey were under way.
The proposed line would connect Nilambur in Keralam with Nanjangud in Karnataka.