A go-getting high-speed train project to connect Chennai and Mysore, via Bengaluru, has been belated as a Chinese company has upheld silence after implementation of a feasibility study a year ago, railway officials here say. They are suggesting that the “lack of response” may be due to the Doklam confrontation.

An internal brief of the Mobility Directorate on the status of nine high-speed projects of the Railways gives an idea about what the 492-km Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru corridor lies in the indeterminate state because the Chinese company has failed to take action to the Ministry’s communiqués.

“The Chinese company submits the final report in November 2016, and after that, the Chinese team has suggested for a face-to-face interaction. No date has been fixed from their side,” says a memo by the directorate.

The brief tells the feasibility study by the China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co Ltd. was submitted to the Railway Board in November 2016 and after that, the Chinese company had wanted meetings with Board officials.

However, officials say the Board has been powerless to get in touch with CREEC officials in spite of repeated mails to them in the past six months.

“We have even tried to get in touch with them through their Embassy here, but we are yet to hear from them,” an official said.

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