KR has SR at one end and CR at other.
SR managed to get connection between Konkan railway area to PGT and TVC division towns (entire Kerala and NCJ TEN of Tamil Nadu). But totally failed to link Konkan to other parts of TN, be it Coimbatore, Salem, Erode, Trichy, Madurai, even Chennai. This proves influence of TVC and PGT in Konkan matters.

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is same with CR also. Only Mumbai has trains to Konkan towns like Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Chiplun. No link from here to Pune, Nagpur, Nasik, Amravati, Aurangabad, Nanded.

SWR has zero hold on Konkan. To get one train from Karwar to Bangalore, people had to approach courts!. No trains from Karnataka's Konkan railway areas of Mangalore, Udupi, Kundapura, Ankola, Honnavara, Karwar to any part of Karnataka state- Mysore, Hubli, Belagavi, Bijapur, Tumkur, Hospet, Ballari, Raichur, Kalaburagi, Bidar. Just one train runs from KR area to Bangalore.

No trains from Goa to Karnataka and Maharashtra towns.
Also, jurisdiction of KR leaves no income generating operations/ stations in their control - be it Mangalore Port, Vasco Port, etc. Just like an island, it stands orphaned with crippled jurisdiction between Thokur (outside Mangalore) to Roha (100 kms from Mumbai).

State wise contribution in KR is Maharashtra 22% Karnataka 15% and Kerala 6%. But Kerala got lion share in trains, and Maharashtra got few trains to Mumbai. But Karnataka got zero connection to Karnataka towns.

This anamoly to be rectified. Dismantling KR is not going to happen. But it is better to realign the areas. It is better to give area upto and including Mangalore Central in KR, by taking from SR. . In Maharashtra, from CR, if Roha upto Panvel is given to KR, it would make sense. In Goa, KR should get MAO VSG portion from SWR.

Then, KR would be able to run trains from Mangalore to Hubli, Belgaum, Hyderabad, Bidar etc. Atleast we can expect train from Mangalore to Chennai via Hassan, which is shorter route than via Shoranur. KR can run trains from Madgaon/ Vasco to Nagpur, Nashik, Aurangabad etc.

With Minister's pressure, hope the issues would be addressed properly.

SR neglects Mangalore and uses it for dumping and cleaning all Kerala trains.
CR wants Wadi Kalaburagi area for revenue generation, but provides nothing to these area.
It would be better to merge Karnataka areas of CR and SR to neighbouring zones. Merge Mangalore to KR and Kalaburagi to SCR. With this, Karnataka will still have 3 zones- SWR, SCR and KR.
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Kalaburagi division creation is a problem, let wadi to Kalaburagi be merged with SCR GTL/ SC division. As and when it materialize, the areas can be realigned among SCR and SWR.
I feel this is practical solution.

I think this minister should also shed some light on how SWR is exploiting Goa.
Most of the freight revenue UBL division of SWR collects if from CLR QLM VSG route but in return they don't run many passenger trains. Even VSG BGM passenger they started with horrible timings and eventually cancelled it.
Not even a single LHB train from VSG whereas MAO in KR almost all trains are LHB.
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SWR is focusing exclusively for Karnataka then it's fair Goa gets its due from KRCL.
Only because of KRCL Goa now has dedicated rail connectivity to many different parts of the country otherwise SWR would have screwed Goa.