Dream Bangalore

The planned route will go via Rajakottai and Palacode and will help drivers skip Hosur town. Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/nhai-plans-shorten-salem-bengaluru-route-25-kms-calls-tenders-120194 I don’t think it is " Rajakottai" , as mentioned in the article, but " Rayakottai"  along the Hosur-Dharmapuri road, which runs parallel to the Bangalore-Salem railway line from Hosur onwards. The below maps represent my idea of how the highway could be aligned. It may or may not be different from what the NHAI has planned. The above alignment could be considered as it passes through the vicinity of the upcoming DLI Integrated Logistics Park, Bangalore, near Anekal. A second alignment is also possible: In both the images, black lines indicate the stretch of the road that needs to be laid by acquiring land. I reiterate that the above images are just my thoughts and may be different from what the NHAI plans to implement.

I see a growing demand for the inclusion of the Coastal  Karnataka  under the SWR (not that it did not exist before, just that it wasn't as loud), which essentially requires the creation of a Mangalore division. Further, the current government hasn't really done anything about another demand for the Gulbarga division as well. With this in mind, I was looking for some information about the existing divisions on the Indian Railways website and here is what I found. 1. Three cities have divisions under multiple  railway  zones i.) Mumbai Central Zone Western Zone Konkan  Railway  although headquartered in Navi Mumbai, has no Mumbai division I suppose but Ratnagiri and Karwar. ii.) Nagpur Central Zone South East Central Zone iii.) Lucknow Northern Zone North Eastern Zone 2. Two cities have multiple divisions under the same zone i.) Hyderabad  - South Central Zone Hyderabad Secunderabad ii.) Kolkata  - Eastern Zone Sealdah Howrah 3. Four zones cater to a single state Eastern  Railw