UP Budget | CM Akhilesh Yadav allotted fund for Kanpur & Varanasi Metro Projects

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UP Budget | CM Akhilesh Yadav allotted fund for Kanpur & Varanasi Metro Projects

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday presented his fifth and last budget before the upcoming 2017 Assembly polls. While experts termed it a populist budget, Akhilesh said it has all the ingredients for the developmental promises made by the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in 2012.

With a fiscal deficit of four per cent, the Rs 3.46 lakh crore budget is the biggest of all the budgets presented by this government and is also 14.2 per cent higher than the last 2015-16 budget allocations. It mainly aims at the agricultural, health, infrastructural, educational sectors besides making suitable allotments of funds for the various schemes promised by the SP.

“Rs 1,336 crore has been allocated for clearing the arrears of sugarcane farmers besides special packages of Rs 1,255 crore for Bundelkhand farmers, Rs 2,057 crore for the 50 drought-hit districts of the state and Rs 4,498 crore for farmers affected by hail storms,” Akhilesh said while presenting the budget.

While Rs 14,721 crore has been allocated for roads and bridges across the state, the budget also made provision of Rs 4,003 crore for the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, Rs 1,500 crore for the Poorvanchal Expressway, Rs 814crore for the Lucknow Metro rail project and Rs 50 crore each for Metro rails projects in Kanpur and Varanasi. A sum of over Rs 1,300 crore has also been earmarked for new schemes which mainly focus on education, health and agriculture.

Mumbai Metro | Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow Pratiksha left out of Mumbai Metro II route

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Mumbai Metro | Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow Pratiksha left out of Mumbai Metro II route

Mumbai: The state authorities have managed to bypass Juhu and even superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow Pratiksha while charting the route of Metro II. And, permission from the ministry of civil aviation is likely to come in for having an elevated Metro on SV Road next to Juhu Aerodrome.

As per the meeting held on Friday between Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials on the second phase of the larger Dahisar-Charkop-DN Nagar-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro line, the corridor will not pass through NS Road Number 10, ie the road where the Bachchans once lived.

“Draft of the Detailed Project Report was discussed on Friday with the DMRC for Metro 2-B (DN Nagar to Bandra). As per the discussions, the elevated Metro will be made on Gulmohar Road instead of NS Road Number 10,” said UPS Madan, metropolitan commissioner.

The Metro line will start at the existing DN Nagar Metro station and head straight to JVPD Junction only to take left for Gulmohar Road. This means that the Juhu residents who have been opposing the elevated Metro line in favour of an underground one have been bypassed.

Once it reaches Mithibai College or NM College, the earlier alignment will continue — snaking through SV Road up to Bandra. This second phase of the second Metro will be around 9km in length and is expected to be ready in three years from the date of commencement of construction.

“Aviation officials too have been consulted by the DMRC for issues pertaining to the elevated Metro line infringing on the air funnel at Vile Parle-Santa Cruz; the issue has been resolved,” added Madan.

The earlier version of the elevated Metro had several impediments, including non-availability of clearance from the ministry of environment and forests for car depot at Charkop and Mankhurd, partial clearance from the ministry of civil aviation as the alignment was infringing on the air funnel at Santa Cruz, impractical height of the Kurla Metro station, rehabilitation and resettlement issues at various locations, and land for the JVPD Metro station under litigation. The state government announced an underground version for the same, but in 2015, it went back to an elevated system.

Patna Metro | Bihar government approves Metro Rail Project in Patna

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Patna Metro | Bihar government approves Metro Rail Project in Patna

Patna: Bihar government today approved the Metro Rail Project in Patna. A budget of Rs 16,960 crore has been allocated for the project which will see Metro services resuming in the city from 2021. The metro network will have 27 stations initially and will run from Saguna More to Patna Junction.

The proposal will now be sent to the Union government for approval. The Bihar government started working on the project from 2011, and an initial draft was prepared in 2013.

The state government had then asked Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) to prepare a feasibility report.

According to the plan, the Metro services in Patna will be rolled out in three phases. In the first phase work will be completed in the east-west and north-south corridors.

The metro will run on two routes under the PPP (Public Private Partnership) mode.

Patna will be the seventh Indian city to have the metro after Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur and Chennai.

Gurgaon Metro | IL&FS Transportation Networks sells 49% stake in RMRGL for Rs 509.9 crore

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Gurgaon Metro | IL&FS Transportation Networks sells 49% stake in RMRGL for Rs 509.9 crore

New Delhi: IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd said it has sold 49% equity stake in Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Ltd for Rs 509.9 crore. It did not disclose the name of the buyer in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

“IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd has informed BSE that the Company along with its subsidiary has sold 49% equity stake in Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Limited, a subsidiary of the Company at a price of Rs. 17 per share for an aggregate consideration of Rs. 509.90 Crs,” it said.

Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon is the world’s first private metro network. It had started as a JV between IL&FS and DLF but the real estate firm later exited. The first phase of the rapid metro was built around an office district called Cyber City in Gurgaon which is entirely owned by DLF.

On Thursday, IL&FS Transportation Networks reported a 23.25% rise in its consolidated net profit at Rs 159.07 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 compared to Rs 129.06 crore a year ago. Its total income increased 14.96% to Rs 2,339.47 crore from Rs 2,034.92 crore a year ago.

Shares of IL&FS Transportation Networks closed at Rs 70.40 on Thursday on BSE, down 2.7%.

Lucknow Metro | 130cr loan approved for LMRC project

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Lucknow Metro | 130cr loan approved for LMRC project

Lucknow: The Union government has approved Rs 130-crore loan for current financial year, paving way for fast construction of the priority North-South corridor of Metro rail in Lucknow. The amount will be released by the Centre in the last week of February.

European Investment Bank has also cleared Rs 43 crore for the current year and as per agreement the amount will be dispersed by last week of March, said LMRC.
“About 900 metres of city roads will be affected by construction of the underground section for a period of over two-and-a-half years and traffic may have to be diverted,” said Kumar Keshav, MD of Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation.

Delhi Metro | Metro rail service to be extended up to Greater Faridabad

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Delhi Metro | Metro rail service to be extended up to Greater Faridabad

Faridabad: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said metro rail service would be extended up to Greater Faridabad after its expansion from YMCA Chowk to Ballabgarh is done.

An official release quoting the Chief Minister said people who have constructed houses on government land would not be made homeless, rather they would be given ownership after charging them the current market rate of the land.

Unauthorised colonies would be regularised after charging a development fee, it said. Addressing a rally here, Khattar said, “Everyone is aware of the system that used to be in the state and the country. Corruption was at peak but BJP soon controlled it after coming to power. So far, in our tenure, no one has levelled any allegation of corruption against any BJP leader.”

BJP government had put a check on graft with the help of information technology. Today, there are more than 50 services which are accessible online in Haryana and people can avail its benefit anytime, the Chief Minister said, claiming graft in tehsils has been eliminated by introducing e-registration.

Speaking about reforms in police administration, he said the state government has introduced such a system that FIR could be registered in any police station irrespective of the place of crime.

Stating that development works amounting to Rs 133 crore would be undertaken in Ballabgarh Assembly constituency, Khattar said the developmental suggestions by local MP and Union MoS Krishan Pal Gujjar and MLA Mool Chand Sharma would be completed on the basis of feasibility. Earlier, the Chief Minister laid foundation stones of four new development projects and dedicated one project to the people in Sector 15-A.

Gurgaon Metro | DMRC to study feasibilty of linking old and new Gurgaon

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Gurgaon Metro | DMRC to study feasibilty of linking old and new Gurgaon

Gurgaon: The movement to extend the Metro rail network to old Gurgaon has got a fresh impetus, with the Haryana government roping in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to conduct a feasibility study for the proposed route.

Additional chief secretary of town and country planning department, P Raghvendra Rao, told TOI on Wednesday that the state government has written to DMRC for conducting the feasibility study and it will start the work at the earliest.

“We have decided to take the help of DMRC for the proposed Metro route, which will connect old Gurgaon with new Gurgaon,” he said.

“On the basis of the feasibility report, we will take a call on the extension of the Metro network to the old city. We will also decided whether to engage some other agency for execution of the proposal or continue with DMRC, after getting the report,” he added.

Earlier the state government had invited quotations for conducting a feasibility study, following which three companies – DIMTS, UMTC and RITES – had come forward. DMRC had not submitted any quotation on the ground that they do not want to compete with other consultancy organisation for taking up the work.

According to a response to an RTI query, filed by activist Aseem Takyar, DMRC has expressed its desire to work only on mutually agreed terms and condition.

Delhi Metro | DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination Success Kit

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Delhi Metro | DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination Success Kit

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This book has been designed for the aspirants preparing for the written recruitment examination for the posts of Maintainers in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. DMRC is conducting recruitment examination for recruiting young, dynamic and motivated Indian nationals to non-executive posts.
The present study package for DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination has been divided into six parts namely General Awareness, Logical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Electrical Trade, Electronics Trade and Fitter Trade, each sub-divided into number of chapters as per the examination pattern and syllabi of the recruitment examination. The General Awareness section covers History, Geography, Indian Polity, General Science, Indian Economy and Miscellaneous Facts whereas the Logical Ability section covers Verbal as well as Non-Verbal Ability section. Each chapter in the book contains ample number of solved problems which have been designed on the lines of questions asked in previous years’ DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination. Also practice exercises have been covered at the end of the chapters to ensure revision of the concepts covered in each chapter. All the questions covered in the book have been designed according to the latest test pattern and the syllabi of the recruitment examination. The book also contains a model test paper for DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination along with its solutions. The model test paper will help students practice and self analyse their level of preparation for the upcoming recruitment exam.

As the Success Kit contains ample practice as well as study material, it for sure will help aspirants score high in the upcoming DMRC Maintainers Recruitment Examination.

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Chennai Metro | Recruitment of Director (Project) & Director (Finance)

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Chennai Metro Rail Limited (a joint venture of Govt. of India and Govt. of Tamil Nadu) inviting applications for the following posts through its official Advt. No CMRL/ HR/ 01/ 201:-

  1. Director (Project) – 01 post
  2. Director (Finance) – 01 post

Pay Scale: Rs 75,000 –Rs 1,00,000/- (IDA)

Selection Process:

The screening of eligible candidates will be done through interview as scheduled and conducted for this purpose.

How to Apply:

The eligible candidates may apply by filling application format from the website of Chennai Metro Rail Limited at www.chennaimetrorail.gov.in and submit it along with desired documents to –“General Manager (HR), Chennai Metro Rail Limited, Admin Building, CMRL Depot, Poonamallee High Road, koyambedu, Chennai -600  107” by or before March 3, 2016.

Delhi Metro | DMRC announces examination schedule for recruitment of 1509 posts

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Delhi Metro | DMRC announces examination schedule for recruitment of 1509 posts

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation announced the schedule of written examination for recruitment of various posts. Following is the tentative schedule for the written examination against DMRC’s Advertisement No. DMRC/OM/HR/I/2015, Online Registration Start date 24th October, 2015. Closing date for online registration: 27th November, 2015:-

Post CodeName of the PostWritten ExamAdmit Card Availability
E01Asstt. Manager / Finance20th Feb, 201605th Feb, 2016
NE06Junior Engineer (Civil)21st Feb, 201606th Feb, 2016
NE08Account Assistant
NE09Stenographer28th Feb, 2016—
NE04Jr.Engineer / Electronics06th Mar, 2016—
NE03Jr.Engineer / Electrical13th Mar, 2016—
NE02Customer Relations Assistant (CRA)20th Mar, 2016—
NE01Station Controller / Train Operator (SC/TO)03rd Apr, 2016—
NE05Jr.Engineer / Mechanical10rd Apr, 2016—
NE10(B)Maintainer-Fitter17th Apr, 2016—
NE10(C)Maintainer-Electronic Mechanic
NE10(D)Maintainer-Ref & AC Mechanic
NE07Office Assistant24th Apr, 2016
NE10(A)Maintainer-Electrician01st May, 2016
  1. Admit card shall be available only on our website (15 days prior to the date of Examination). Candidates are requested to download their admit card in color format only from our website only, No separate admit card shall be dispatched through post.
  2. The above schedule is tentative, any change in the schedule will be updated on website only and candidates may remain in constant touch with DMRC website.
  3. Candidates are requested to visit this website regularly for latest updates.
  4. Discrepancies, if any regarding the Admit Card should be reported by email on 2015dmrcquery@gmail.com

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Delhi Metro | DMRC achieves tunnel breakthrough at Naraina

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Delhi Metro | DMRC achieves tunnel breakthrough at Naraina

New Delhi: The DMRC today achieved a tunnel breakthrough of Delhi Metro’s Phase – III project at Naraina by completing the tunneling on the under construction Delhi Cantt – Narina Vihar- Mayapuri of the Majlis Park – shiv Vihar (Line-7) corridor. Dr. Mangu Singh, Managing Director/DMRC and other senior DMRC officials were also present during the event.

The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) emerged at Mayapuri retrival shaft site after making a 1.2 KM long tunnel from Delhi Cant. The tunneling on this stretch began on 2nd February 2015. The maximum depth of the tunnel is 22 meters below the earth’s surface.

This is another engineering landmark for DMRC as the TBM was dragged through the Naraina vihar station instead of retrieval it after installing 803 meters (578 rings) due to paucity of space for creating a shaft on the ground. The TBM was dragged about 210 meters and took about one month and was carried out by M/s J. Kumar-CRTG.

Generally, TBMs are retrieved through custom made retrieval shafts and then re-inserted through launching shafts in the new location. But such conventional engineering would have involved construction of separate retrieval and launching shafts, which would have required more land and displacement of properties above.

In addition, the process would have required a month each approximately for the retrieval and then the launching of the TBM. To avoid these hassles, the TBM shield was dragged using push ram cylinders.

Hyderabad Metro | Design changes in Metro Rail stations

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Hyderabad Metro | Design changes in Metro Rail stations

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro rail authorities were forced to do a design tweak at a few places because of topography, right of way and underground utilities across the three corridors though uniform design standardisation was done to 63 of 66 overhead stations.

The very basic design of an overhead metro station was changed in the initial stages itself by discarding the ‘tunnel’ shape to that of a cantilever built on a single pier and on the principle of bird wing so as to occupy as much less space as possible on the road below, said HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy.

“Each station by itself is a technical and location challenge,” he explains. Standard size of any station is 140 metres by 20 metres as can be observed in the near completed stretches between Nagole and Mettuguda (Corridor Three) and from Miyapur to S.R. Nagar (Corridor One).

Each station on 10 piers will have four entries and four exits, but the landings depend on the road width as it varies anywhere from 100 ft to 200 ft.

It has been envisioned to provide four lanes passageway for traffic under station and three lanes in a few places because of either high tension power lines or water pipelines underneath.

Below any station there will have two staircases, one escalator and one lift at the ends depending on the site conditions otherwise preferably; it will be towards the centre. Stations will be of two levels – concourse and platform. From concourse to platform, there will be four staircases, four escalators and two lifts – common for all stations.

Concourse level will be unpaid and atop the platform will be through a paid ticket. No commercial activity will be allowed on the platforms and there will be just a few seats.

But, Hi-Tec City station will be just half the length of other stations and half a concourse because of the road level and Jubilee Hills check post station being on a steep gradient will not be having any concourse “otherwise the pillar will be too high”. Boarding will be at 60 ft straight onto the platform, says Y. Suresh, Deputy Executive Engineer, HMR.

When the standard stations height is about 50 ft from ground, Punjagutta station will be at a height of 62 ft, have two concourses and will be on a ‘U’ shaped portal rather than a pier like others as it crosses the flyover. Interesting construction is also going on at the metro interchange stations of Ameerpet, MGBS (Imlibun) and Parade Grounds where land was acquired after much difficulty.

Ameerpet (Corridor One on top and Corridor Three down) and MGBS stations (Corridor Two up and Corridor One down) will be single buildings and ‘triangle shaped’ whereas Parade Grounds interchange station between Corridor two and Corridor Three will have two separate buildings as the metro lines will be parallel having its own exits and entries.

Patna Metro | Chance to have Metro Train dims; Nitish reverses previous decisions

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Patna Metro | Chance to have Metro Train dims; Nitish reverses previous decisions

Patna: “Patna, previously known as Pataliputra, has a history that goes back thousands of years. I will not allow metro train to come to Patna until some new technique is used to save the historical value of the ancient city,” Kumar said.

Interestingly, the Nitish government, less than two months ago on December 22, had given his nod to the Patna Metro Rail Project and had asked Maheshwar Hazari, the Urban Development Minister, to send the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Central government for its clearance.

The DPR was submitted by the Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) in 2014 with an estimated cost of Rs. 14,000 crore to build the metro transit system.

In other backtracking by the state government, the Chief Minister, nearly six months after barring anyone to contest in Panchayat elections if they did not meet the minimum requirement of having at least one indoor toilet at their home, reversed his decision saying the rule was too tough on poor people who wished to contest in the upcoming Panchayat polls.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet on Tuesday attended by Kumar and other senior ministers.

“Considering there are many qualified people who happen to be very poor, this requirement is being waived for the March-April Panchayat elections in Bihar, said an official.

As reported, in order to stop human defecation in open fields, the state government had passed an amendment to the Bihar Panchayati Raj Act of 2006 last August preventing anyone from contesting the election if the candidate did not have at least one indoor bathroom in their home by January 1, 2016.

With the January 1 deadline already gone with no substantial improvement in the problem of open defecation, the Chief Minister decided to repeal the amendment.

Noida Metro | NMRC asks Centre to take 50% stake, fund its projects

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Noida Metro | NMRC asks Centre to take 50% stake, fund its projects

Noida: The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) has requested the ministry of urban development (MoUD) to accept a 50% stake in the company. If the ministry accepts the request, then the NMRC will become eligible for financial assistance from the Centre for projects in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas.

“We have proposed that the Centre should have a 50% stake in the NMRC. We have put forth this proposal because it will help us in getting the government’s financial assistance for ongoing and future metro projects,” said Rama Raman, chairman of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authorities.

The NMRC was formed in November 2014 with a capital of Rs 1,000 crore to build and maintain metro projects in Uttar Pradesh, on the lines of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

As per the proposal, the MoUD will have 50% equity in the NMRC, but the Centre will be bound to provide only 20% funds for each metro project undertaken by the NMRC.

“After getting a stake, the MoUD will also be eligible to appoint officials to the NMRC. If the MoUD agrees to have equity in the NMRC, then it will boost the under-construction 30-km Noida-Greater Noida metro project and also fast track other proposed metro projects in Noida and Greater Noida,” Sandeep Chandra, general manager of the NMRC, said.

After the proposal goes through, the NMRC’s financial audit will be conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, officials said.

The DMRC, which runs the Delhi Metro, is already a centre-state public sector company. Officials said the NMRC will also become a centre-state enterprise after the Centre gets a stake in the company.

Currently, the NMRC is owned only by Noida and Greater Noida authorities, on behalf of Uttar Pradesh.

Meanwhile, NMRC is also going to shift its office from Noida authority’s Sector 6 building to a new premises in Sector 29.

“The NMRC will shift to its new office — in the Ganga Shopping Complex in Sector 29 — by February 8. The NMRC will have a dedicated building in Sector 29 for administrative purposes. All meetings will be conducted here and decisions regarding metro projects taken,” an official of the NMRC said.

Noida chairman and managing director of the NMRC will inaugurate the office on February 8.

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