Thiruvananthapuram: A veteran Non-Resident Keralite who has spent nearly five decades in the UAE has urged Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan to make the proposed Thiruvananthapuram-Kasaragod high-speed rail corridor the first major project to channel Kerala’s vast expatriate remittances into productive investments.
In a letter to Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, K.V. Shamsudheen, Chairman of Pravasi Bandhu Welfare Trust, said the government’s proposal to shift the Kerala diaspora from being merely remittance providers to long-term investors could begin with the ambitious railway project proposed under the leadership of Metro Man E. Sreedharan.
Drawing parallels with the successful…