Bombardier wins Rolling Stock & Signalling Contract of Kanpur & Agra Metro

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29/06/2020

LUCKNOW (Metro Rail News): Canadian multinational firm Bombardier Transportation emerged as the lowest bidder (L1) for providing 201 coaches (rolling stock) and signalling & train-control system for Phase 1 of Kanpur and Agra Metro Rail project.

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) on Monday opened the price bid of all three bidders who are technically qualified after the opening of technical on February 18, 2020.

Currently UPMRCL’s estimate is unknown.

As per result of financial bids shared, the position of each participant bidder is as under:

Bidder	Position
Bombardier Transportation India Pvt. Ltd. – Bombardier Transportation GmBH	L1
BEML Limited – Hitachi STS	L2
Alstom Transport India Ltd. – Alstom Transport S.A.	L3

Although the price bid of chines firm CRRC was not opened as it was not found technically qualified bid was rejected, so their financial bid was not opened. Bid values quoted by each firm yer to disclose so it will be added soon when available.

Bombardier Transportation will start production coaches at its Rolling Stock facility located at Vadodara, Gujarat, India once the letter of acceptance (LoA) received from UPMRC. Total of 67 metro trains (with three coaches) will be supplied to Kanpur and Agra Metro projects under this contract.

Tender (Contract KNPAGRS-01) for design, manufacture, supply, testing, commissioning and training of 201 nos. Standard gauge cars, including Train Control & Signalling System for Agra and Kanpur Metro Rail Project, was invited on 5 December 2019 and technical bids were opened on 18 February 2020.

Earlier to this, the Bombardier had been awarded the Rolling Stock contract worth Rs 2,577 crore to supply 30 regional commuter trainsets of six cars each and 10 intracity mass transit trainsets of three cars each, together with 15 years of rolling stock maintenance for NCRTC’s Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor.

For more updates, check out the Kanpur & Agra sections of Metro Rail News.

For more updates, check out the Kanpur & Agra sections of Metro Rail News

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Uttar Pradesh starts utilising train coaches as isolation wards

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Neha Singh

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26/06/2020

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UTTAR PRADESH (Metro Rail News): The railway ministry said that Uttar Pradesh govt started utilising train coaches as isolation wards for 59 suspected patients in Mau.

Indian Railways has begun implementing care to corona patients referred for admission in COVID coaches deployed in many states. On June 20, 2020, 42 suspected patients were admitted in isolation coaches deployed at Mau Junction in Varanasi division and 17 cases were admitted on June 21, 2020.

Eight patients have already been released, as per the official statement. Indian Railways is set to offer almost 5,231 isolation coaches to the states. Zonal railways have turned these coaches as lockdown facilities.

The coaches can be utilised for quite mild cases that can be clinically indicated to the COVID care centres according to the guidelines issued through the health ministry. Train coaches have been changed into isolation wards.

In which, 503 isolation coaches have been deployed in Delhi, twenty in Andhra Pradesh, sixty in Telangana, 372 in UP and 5 in Madhya Pradesh.

Earlier, Indian railways have used almost 960 isolation coaches over 5 states in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana & Madhya Pradesh to facilities in the country.

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Railways announced the refund of all tickets booked till mid-august on regular trains

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Neha Singh

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26/06/2020

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NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): The Indian Railways has declared all tickets cancellation booked on or before 14th of April on regular trains. An order issued on 22nd of June that it has been finalised, all train tickets booked on or prior to April 14 for regular timetabled trains should be cancelled and complete refunds generated.

As per Railway reservation rules, permit commuters to book tickets up to 120 days in advance for every classes and train within advance reservation period. Whoever have booked tickets till mid-August will now have their tickets automatically cancelled and they will receive the refunds for the booked tickets, with the new order.

An individual can apply for payments within 6 months from the date of journey, for PRS counter tickets. Now, the national transporter runs fifteen pairs of Special AC trains and 200 timetabled trains from 20th of May and 1st of June.

To transport the stranded migrant workers, students, pilgrims along with tourists, railways has also been working Shramik Special trains from May 1. Since then, the Railway has run over 4,450 Shramik Special trains to ferry over sixty lakh people.

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Indian Railways announces the cancellation of all regular trains till August 12

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Neha Singh

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26/06/2020

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NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): On Thursday Indian Railways declared the cancellation of all regular trains till 12th of August. As per the Railway Board notification, it has been decided that normal timetabled passenger services with Mail or Express, passenger and suburban services still cancelled till 12.08.2020.

It has also been finalized that all the ticket booked for the normal timetabled trains for the journey date from 01/07/20-2/08/20 will be cancelled and total fares will be refunded to the passengers.

The 230 special trains that have been come into motion meanwhile the lockdown will continue to run, as per the national transporter said.
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Special Rajdhani, Express services were commenced on 12 May and 1st June respectively.

This time the cancellations of trains come in the background of an impact in Covid-19 cases across the country. In a declaration on 15th of May, the Railways had cancelled each train listed for travel till 30th of June 2020 and chose to refund the tickets.

Because of the lockdown, all the trains were cancelled across the country that started on the 25th of March to contain the spread of coronavirus. It was only on the 16th of May that restricted commuters train services restarted in the country.

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MMRCL Vacancy for Assistant General Manager (Legal)

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Neha Singh

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26/06/2020

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MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): Mumbai Metro Rail Co Ltd (MMRCL) invites online application for the post of Assistant General Manager (Legal).

Name of the Post – Assistant General Manager
Total No of post – one
Pay scale – 70,000 to 2,00,000

Required Qualification:

LLB or Bachelor of Law from any Recognized university with min 55% marks or equivalent CGPA of 03/05 years.
At least 7 years of experience of Post qualification in executive grade in govt entities in the desirable domain for the post.
At least 7 years of experience of Post qualification in administration cum legal work on a responsible or executive position in a solicitors firm of repute or applicant practising in city civil court and high court with minimum CTC of Rs 8 lacs.
Jr. Scale officer having a minimum of 5 years of service with grade pay of Rs 5400/-.
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Currently working in Sr. scale with grade pay of 6,600/-, IDA pay scale Rs 60,000 to 1,80,000/- with at least 2 years post qualification experience.
Applicants must possess knowledge of drafting and deeds, affidavits etc. Bar council registration.

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Kanpur metro construction gained momentum after lockdown

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Neha Singh

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25/06/2020

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KANPUR (Metro Rail News): Kanpur Metro rail construction work has gained momentum after the lockdown. Workers are now returning from their village back to the city. A total of 570 labourers are involved including the casting yard & corridor.

With the help of bus and pickup vehicles of the contractor company, the workers are being taken back to the work. Camps are being developed in the casting yard for labourers to stay.

104 rooms are to be built, out of that almost sixty has been finished. Workers who have returned to work have also commenced living in the room. Since the 15th of May, almost 400 workers have turned to work.

Managing director of Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation, Kumar Keshav says that now the metro construction in Kanpur is picking speed. UPMRC is trying their best to recover the loss of time caused due to the lockdown and the construction should be completed within the time limit.

The work of placing the Pier Caps on the pillars which have been made on the road under the nine km long stretch of the corridor, being built from IIT to Motiljhil has commenced. The casting of twenty pier caps was made prior to the lockdown.

Currently, almost 400 of the 600 workers employed are from Uttar Pradesh. Constant efforts are being done to take them back to the workers from elsewhere.

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DMRC Floats DPR Tender for Dehradun Ropeway Project

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Narendra Shah

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25/06/2020

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DEHRADUN (Metro Rail News): The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) invited online bids for providing consultancy services for the preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) of Ropeway project in Dehradun. DMRC is committed to making a detailed project report (DPR) for 25 km of Ropeway Project in Dehradun.

In December 2019, Uttrakhand Metro Rail Corporation (UkMRC) and DMRC had signed a Memorandum of Undertaking (MoU) for developing two Ropeway project in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

The Government of Uttarakhand has recommended three ropeway corridors to meet urban transportation demand and reduce traffic in Dehradun city.

Prem Nagar to Rispana Bridge
ISBT to Jakhan and
Survey Chowk to Karanpur

Scope of Work

The scope of work includes Preparation of concept plan of the ropeway route including tentative stations, tower locations, horizontal alignment, vertical alignment.

Preparation of index plan for the ropeway network finalized for Dehradun City. Field survey for identification of above-ground utilities along the proposed ropeway route and also listing of buildings along the route if any.

Geometric design of route alignment covering horizontal as well as vertical profile on actual topography survey including Drone survey and furnishing the XYZ coordinates of ropeway network.

Finalizing location of stations, towers and general lay out plan for stations and integration area. Preparation of land plans for the stations as well towers location showing Government and private land. Requisite help in the identification of land (Government/Private) will be extended by Revenue Department of Uttarakhand Government.

Technology Selection for the Ropeway System including spans, rope dia, type of Towers, diameter and shape of Towers etc.
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Conceptual plan for a maintenance depot

Estimation of construction costs, operation and maintenance cost (Break up of manpower cost, energy cost, maintenance cost). Approximation of fare structure and recommendation thereof.

Periodicity of renewal of various components of the ropeway system giving their life and cost thereof. Submission of codes and Good Practices (soft copy) of the Ropeway System in India and Abroad.

Key Knowledge

Tender Notice No.: NIQ/06/ED(CS)/2020
Issue Date: 25 June 2020
Estimated Tender Value: NA
Work Completion Period: 12 weeks
Last Date to Submit Bids: 8 July 2020 up to 1500 hrs.
Opening Date of Bids: 8 July 2020 at 1530 hrs.

Tender Document

Tender papers can be downloaded from the Govt. of India’s CPP portal from 25th June 2020 to 8th July 2020 at free of cost.

Contact Below for more details

The Principal Advisor,
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited
25 Ashoka Road, New Delhi – 110001

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State Govt had a meeting for Jaipur metro phase-II

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Neha Singh

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24/06/2020

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JAIPUR (Metro Rail News): After preparing a Detailed Project Report for the Jaipur metro phase-II proposed project among Sitapura-Ambabari, the state govt will be taken discussions to start the project. On June 24, the urban development and housing minister has called a meeting.

The Jaipur Metro Rail along with DMRC revised the phase- II DPR, conducted a series of exercises to take down the expense to almost Rs 5,500 cr.

A JMRC official stated that in the state cabinet meeting, approval DPR will be made. The project is now intended on the elevated corridor and the expense is decreased to almost half from earlier estimation.

In 2014 the DPR made, it was mentioned that project needed land of Rs 2,000 cr. Whatever the amount mentioned it the earlier DPR, it would require less amount than mentioned in the previous DPR. The expected cost for acquiring land will be decreased to Rs 500 cr, as per a source.

An official said, “While construction cost of an elevated corridor is Rs 200 crore per km, it goes up to Rs 550 crore per km underground,” said a senior official.

As Jaipur Metro also got the conditional safety clearance certificate by the commissioner of metro railway safety to start the 2.4 km underground metro railway section in the Walled City location and the final decisions will also take place to the project inaugurate.

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Wallace Weatherill is the new MD for Dubai Metro and Dubai Tram

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Neha Singh

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24/06/2020

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DUBAI (Metro Rail News): Serco Middle East has published its new Managing Director appointment of Wallace Weatherill, for the Dubai Metro & the Dubai Tram, operations, that the company operates and manages on behalf of Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).

According to the Serco’s announcement, Weatherill has worked in the Middle East rail industry for almost 6 years, commencing with mobilising the North-South high-speed commuter railway in Saudi Arabia. Wallace re-joins Serco, having earlier worked as the director for rail in Saudi Arabia.

In the UK, Weatherill has managed passenger railway businesses, like Southeastern, London Commuter Railway & London Midland and also leads with him infrastructure management experience obtained with the UK infrastructure operator Network Rail of 1999-2006. My concept is to make on the success that has already been achieved through the RTA and Serco on the progress of the iconic RTA rail transit systems in Dubai, said Weatherill.

It declared in the statement from Serco, with almost twenty years of experience in the critical rail systems operations in the UK and the Middle East, Wallace leads with him the knowledge and expertise needed to successfully maintain the award-winning Dubai Metro services both Serco & the RTA are recognised for.

Weatherill stated that we also integrate the new Red Line Extension seamlessly, opening new journey possibilities and building the resilience needed to welcome the traveller’s increase. Serco’s plan to empower nationals in our business will resume; our people are our assets & at Serco, we are all proud to be producing important services to the UAE.

The CEO of Serco Middle East, Phil Malem, added that I am overwhelmed to see Wallace is back to Serco Middle East at a globally tricky time. I am confident that Wallace will be an asset to our team and continue Serco’s award-winning delivery of service across the RTA transport systems.

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Land Demolition for Bengaluru Underground Metro Phase II resumes

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Neha Singh

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24/06/2020

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BENGALURU (Metro Rail News): Bengaluru Underground Metro Phase-II demolition work for Metro stations Corridor is now under process in 3 of the 4 stations scheduled that was stopped for over 2 months because of the lockdown.

As per the official, almost a hundred buildings have been destroyed to build the Arabic College, Tannery Road and Nagawara Metro stations, including a 35 flat living complex at ‘Akshay Residency’ near the junction of Outer Ring Road (ORR) and Nagawara.

BMRCL General Manager, Land Acquisitions, M S Channappa Goudar responded that during the lockdown we could not ask people to shift at other places.
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Therefore, we paused till it was relaxed, and Eid was over.

A total of 2,662 parts have been taken for the Nagawara, and Gottigere line and a compensation of Rs 2,016 cr has been given to the land losers.

The demolition work is almost done at Tannery Road, as per the official. Barring 3 properties where tenants or owners have moved outside the state, we have demolished virtually everything, including several tannery units that had been here for decades, he further added. The process of getting properties is in the process at Arabic College, the official said.

The only problem in getting land for Venkateshwara station. He also added that along with giving compensation amount, we had received 2 acres of land from the BDA. Now, another person alleging ownership of the property has received BDA to court, and this has stopped us from moving ahead with the demolition.

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