The move would be a win-win for commuters and for goods movement The Mangaluru chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has suggested to the Government that it take up a feasibility study on aligning the broad-gauge train tracks on the proposed 23.6-km-long tunnel project on the Shiradi Ghat stretch of Bengaluru-Mangaluru highway. In a letter to the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, Nitin Gadkari, the CII Mangaluru chapter Chairman, K Prakash Rao, said that the minister’s recent announcement on plans to build a 23.6-km-long, six-lane tunnel on Shiradi Ghat was a long-pending demand of the people of Dakshina Kannada.