Eco triumphs

THE latest statement of the KonkanRailway Corporation (KRC) based inGoa, regarding the delay of the execution of the 760 krn Roha-Mangalorerailway route due to key consructionalhazards have vindicated the stand of theenvironnmentalists. The corporation hasadmitted difficulties in building nuouin Maharastra, Karnataka and GoL Isubmission came in response to a petition in the Bombay High CowPanjim branch on the progress of thecorporation's work. Environmentalistgroups have repeatedly warned thebuilding the line through coastal Gowill not only prove expensive but allenvironmentally deleterious owing to iteasily crumbled laterite rocks.