New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged-off the Delhi-Faridabad Metro Line that would allow hassle free travel for around two lakh daily commuters between the national capital and the industrial hub in Haryana.
The extension of the Delhi Metro connects Badarpur to Escorts Mujesar in Faridabad.
The total cost of the project from Badarpur to Escorts Mujesar is nearly Rs. 2,500 crore. Out of this, Rs. 1,557 crore was borne by the Haryana Government, the Centre contributed Rs. 537 crore, while the Delhi Metro provided Rs. 400 crore.
All these are elevated and located on either side of the Delhi-Mathura Road (NH-2).
“The nine-station metro corridor which was 95 per cent indigenously built will provide people a safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable, environment-friendly and sustainable transport facility,” a Haryana government spokesperson said.
Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar, addressing a press conference on Saturday, had thanked the Prime Minister for “gifting” the Metro service which would take the city to “another level of progress” with better connectivity with other NCR towns.
He had also said that the Prime Minister would be announcing the go-ahead for connecting Gurgaon with Faridabad by Metro.
NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): The Delhi High Court has upheld the Election Commission’s (EC) decision not to allow the display of any political advertisement inside DMRC premises and on metro trains during the model code of conduct (MCC), saying the restriction was reasonable and in interest fair polls.
Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva termed as “laudable” the EC”s rationale to ensure the public does not get an impression that the government was endorsing or supporting a political party by permitting its advertisements on properties owned by the state or Public Sector Undertakings.
Keeping in view of the purpose for which the directions have been issued i.e., holding of free, fair and transparent elections, I am of the view that the restrictions, as imposed by the respondent 1 (EC), are reasonable and do not violate any provision of the Constitution of India.
The order of the court came while dismissing an outdoor advertising agency’s plea challenging the EC’s June 2019 direction to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to incorporate a clause in its contracts with ad agencies prohibiting the display of political ads on space provided on commercial lease during the MCC.
The proposed clause also said that any political advertisement displayed in such spaces shall be removed immediately on enforcement of the MCC.
DMRC in turn in August 2019 wrote to the ad agency regarding the incorporation of the clause in the contract between them.
Challenging decisions of both EC and DMRC, the agency contended there was already a clause in the contract prohibiting the display of any advertisement which violated the MCC. However, the earlier clause did not prohibit all political ads during the poll period.
Rejecting the agency’s contention that its freedom to carry out trade was being restricted, the court said the clause proposed by EC would remain in effect for only one month when the MCC was in operation, and during the said period other non-political advertisements can be displayed.
“There are no absolute restrictions on the petitioners in carrying on any business or trade. There is only a restriction which is imposed on the petitioners on displaying a particular type of advertisement and restriction is to remain enforced only for a limited period.
“The restriction is not unreasonable keeping in view the object sought to be achieved by the impugned directions i.e. of free, fair and transparent election,” the court said.
It further said, “In any event, the interest of the petitioner (ad agency) is purely commercial. If one were to balance equities, on the one side there is the pure commercial interest of private individuals and on the other side is the general public interest of holding free, fair and transparent elections. The balance clearly tilts in favour of the general public interest.”
The court also directed that all political advertisements that are in breach of the directions of EC be removed as the MCC in connection with elections in Delhi were already in force.
PUNE (Metro Rail News): Pune Metro’s Stretch Between Ideal colony Anandnagar and Garware of is likely to start by June 2020 said mayor Murlidhar Mohol, who took an update about the ongoing projects in the city.
The trial run from the Ideal Colony to Garware College is likely to start by January along with the PCMC priority route. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) priority stretch will start for public use by June 2020 he further added.
Brijesh Dixit, managing director, Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro), said, “The trial run from the ideal Colony to Garware College is likely to start by January 2019.”
A senior civic official on condition of anonymity said that issues related to slum dwellers at Paud road is yet to be resolved and authorities are taking steps to ensure that the project meets its deadline.
Mohol said, “Swargate to Katraj development project report (DPR) for the underground metro and the development plan report (DRP) for Vanaz to Shivvrushti and Hadapsar to Swargate will be made for which Rs 32 lakh will be paid.”
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Mohol said that he has directed the administration to take a final decision on 24X7 water supply project as the play has been delayed. “If the contractor is unable to complete the project then fresh tenders should be invited,” he said.
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Population growth in India has led to cities that are buckling under the weight of demand for services. To avoid the overpopulation, many families are moving outside of the cities, but from there, another problem arises: how do they then move around? Shri. Vinay Kumar Singh, Managing Director of NCRTC, explains how this rapid urbanisation has forced India to rejuvenate its public transport offering to ensure that these people are just as provided for as those within the cities’ central business districts.
Delhi-NCR
Urbanisation is a global phenomenon and India is no exception to this population shift, primarily due to the evident disparity in rural-urban opportunities. The growing aspirations of the country’s citizens force around 25-30 people to migrate every minute from rural areas to cities in search of better opportunities. The national census in 2011 counted 139 million people as domestic migrants in the country between 2001 and 2011. The future is no less challenging for India, with the national economic survey of 2017-18 predicting that about 40 per cent of India’s population will be living in cities by 2030. This is further acknowledged by the United Nations in its World Cities report, which has estimated that urbanisation levels in India are expected to gradually increase from the current 32 per cent to 50 per cent in 2050.
This influx of domestic migrants is predominantly to Indian megacities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, primarily because they are the sectoral hubs driving the economy’s meteoric growth. This trend of domestic migration, particularly in New Delhi, has led to uncontrolled urban sprawl, posing serious challenges for infrastructure, environment and citizens’ quality of life, constraining economic growth.
Planned growth of existing economic hubs and the development of new economic epicentres will be critical to sustainable polycentric urban development for realising the prime minister’s vision to make India a $5 trillion economy by 2025.
National Capital Region (NCR)
The National Capital Region (NCR) of India encompasses several districts adjoining New Delhi in the States of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, with New Delhi at its centre. NCR is one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world, formed in 1985 in line with the internationally adopted approach of regional planning to decongest New Delhi by enabling holistic development of the region.
Until now, the NCR has undergone lopsided development with a few satellite cities of New Delhi emerging as business hubs, while other sub-regions continue to struggle. This unicentric development has prevented the region from realising its true economic potential. A report by Oxford Economics has projected NCR’s GDP to hit $1 trillion by 2030.
This trend of domestic migration, particularly in New Delhi, has led to uncontrolled urban sprawl, posing serious challenges for infrastructure, environment and citizens’ quality of life, constraining economic growth
With an average 33 per cent decadal growth, the population of NCR is expected to reach approximately 64 million by the year 2021, while New Delhi is set to overtake Tokyo to become the world’s most populous city by 2028. The lack of planning and uncontrolled urbanisation in NCR in general, and Delhi in particular, has resulted in serious issues of over-stressed civic amenities, severe congestion, a high number of road accidents and hazardous pollution levels.
Regional mobility in NCR
Despite the augmentation of new roads, flyovers and expressways, traffic congestion has continued to plague the NCR unabated. Plans for transport arteries that create enhanced regional mobility serving the aspirations of NCR have become critically important for sustainable development.
Worldwide in extended urban agglomerations around cities like Seoul, Paris and Tokyo, besides the dense public transit (e.g. BRT, metros and buses) network within urban boundaries, the importance of regional transit planning was realised early on. Accordingly, regional rails have been planned to serve as the main transport backbone of the region with urban public transit modes serving as feeders. To address existing issues and meet organically growing demand, as well as the mobility requirements of the future to unlock the NCR’s economic development potential, the need to develop the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) was identified.
The National Capital Region Planning Board, a statutory body under the Government of India, in its Functional Plan on Transport for NCR-2032, identified eight corridors for constructing high-speed RRTS in the NCR by 2032. Out of these, three corridors were strategically prioritised for implementation in Phase 1.
The responsibility of designing, developing, implementing, financing, operating and maintaining RRTS has been assigned to the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), a joint venture with the Indian government and the state governments of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
The RRTS will connect cities, towns and urban centres across the region, largely serving the needs of daily commuters travelling within the larger urban agglomeration. RRTS is a high-speed, high-frequency, rail-based system with a design speed of 180km/h and an average speed of 100km/h. Once operational, the RRTS will be the NCR’s fastest, most comfortable, most reliable and safest mode of transport. Efficient and sustainable mobility will enable polycentric development in the NCR.
The RRTS will connect cities, towns and urban centres across the region, largely serving the needs of daily commuters travelling within the larger urban agglomeration
RRTS is a first-of-its-kind project in India. The priority corridors of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Gurugram-SNB-Alwar will not only converge at Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan, but will also be interoperable. Multimodal integration with other modes of transport is central to the project, with the intent of reducing travel bottlenecks for commuters adopting public transport. Integrated modes include airports, urban metro stations, Indian national railway stations and inter-state bus terminus.
Equipped with state-of the art technology, best-in-class command and control systems, level two ETCS signalling, and ballastless tracks, the RRTS will not only revolutionise public transport in the region but will set a benchmark for similar future projects in India.
The journey so far
The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor is the first RRTS corridor to be implemented by the NCRTC. The prime minister of India laid the foundation stone of the corridor on 8 March 2019. Civil construction work on the first 17km of the corridor is already in progress, slated to be commissioned by March 2023. Tenders for the rest of the packages for civil construction will be called shortly and the full corridor is set to be operational by 2025. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is funding around 60 per cent of the cost of the corridor.
RRTS will not only revolutionise public transport in the region but will set a benchmark for similar future projects in India
The other two priority corridors are in the advanced stages of government approval. Pre-construction activities like geotechnical investigations, detailed designing and surveys are in progress on the Delhi-Gurugram-SNB-Alwar corridor. Multilateral lending agencies like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and World Bank, including ADB, have shown keen interest in funding these RRTS corridors.
With a team of its own experts, NCRTC has collaborated with several leading global organisations – such as M/s Ayesalngenieria, M/s ADIF and M/s INECO of Spain, M/s ITALFERR of Italy, and M/s Systra and M/s Egis Rail of France – in various technical areas related to conceptualisation, design, planning and integration for efficient implementation of the project.
Benefits of RRTS
The prime minister’s vision of ‘New India’ envisages an equitable and prosperous nation supported by a friendly ecosystem for economic growth. In New India, a sound mobility infrastructure network will define the transformation of cities in a more planned, equitable and sustainable manner.
RRTS, with the capacity to move 70,000-80,000 passengers per hour per direction, with minimal footprint on the land, will act as the transport backbone of the NCR. This next-generation infrastructure will not only be effective in curbing ills like urban sprawl, air pollution, road congestion and accidents, but will also be able to cater to the growing mobility demands of New India for the next 50-60 years. RRTS will be immensely advantageous in controlling the urban sprawl of New Delhi as well as in decongesting the city. Along with a fast, reliable and safe transit system, the regional rapid rail will also offer a range of other socio-economic benefits to the NCR.
The RRTS will result in substantial time savings by cutting the current travel time for a 100km journey of around three to four hours by about a third on its routes. Around two million daily commuters are likely to benefit from the operations of Phase 1 corridors. The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor alone is expected to remove around 100,000 vehicles from the roads, resulting in less pollution, relief in road congestion and a significant reduction in road accident cases.
This next-generation infrastructure will not only be effective in curbing ills like urban sprawl, air pollution, road congestion and accidents, but will also be able to cater to the growing mobility demands of New India for the next 50-60 years
The RRTS will also enable industries and businesses to have better access to a workforce with varied skillsets. The high-speed regional rapid transit system will bring people closer to opportunities; construction of the Phase 1 corridors alone is expected to create around 21,000 direct jobs8. The adoption of the government’s ‘Make in India’ policy will also help in generating direct and indirect employment.
An easy, safe and faster commute by RRTS would improve access to healthcare, education and economic opportunities, leading to improved quality of life and delivering progress through speed.
MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) has completed 100 per cent excavation work on 13 out of 26 underground stations on the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ, Metro-3 corridor. The 13 stations are Cuffe Parade, Vidhan Bhavan, Churchgate, Hutatma Chowk, CSMT, Science Museum, Siddhi Vinayak, MIDC, Marol Naka, Sahar Road, CSMIA Domestic, CSMIA International airport and SEEPZ.
SK Gupta, Project Director, MMRCL Said that Now further activities like construction of the station boxes, which is already underway, will take shape. “The excavation for the remaining 13 stations will be completed in the next three to four months. Overall 87 per cent of the excavation has been completed.
“28 lakh cum material (out of total 51 lakh cum) excavated fr these 13 stations for 100% achievement. At 9 stations, more than 70% excavation (13 lakh cum) is done. Only 5 stations are at less than 50% where work started late due to land acquisition & major utility issues. But we’ll catch up”, twitted Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, MMRCL.
The progress status of the remaining 13
The progress status of the remaining 13 stations are
Kalbadevi (26%)
Girgaon (14%)
Grant Road (56%)
Mumbai Central (73%)
Mahalaxmi (75%)
Aacharya Atre Chowk (39%)
Worli (82%), Dadar (88%)
Shitladevi (71%), Dharavi (81%)
BKC (83%)
Vidyanagari (87%)
Santacruz (93%).
The MMRC has achieved 24th tunnel breakthrough out of 32 and 40-km tunneling out of 55 km. A total of 17 TBMs have been deployed for the execution of underground tunneling work under Mumbai Metro Line-3 till December 2019,
MMRCL Goals for 2020
MMRCL sets the goal for the completion of overall tunneling work by September. The first trainset is likely to be delivered by the end of this year. The MMRCL will invite bids for Operation & Maintenance work in the next month. The track laying work for the mainline will be commenced soon. The MMRC set a goal to achieve nearly 70% of civil work in this year.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) may release the 3rd trench loan to MMRC by the end of this financial year i.e. March 2020.
Designs for all the major systems contracts will be completed and venders/OEMs for their various sub-systems will be finanlised. The MEP works which include the lighting of tunnel, station, fire fighting etc. will be executed along with civil works.
Recent development
The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Surya-2 commenced its 3rd drive today at Churchgate Station shaft. The TBM will be tunneling 650 meters downline up to Hutatma Chowk under UGC-01.
MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): Maharashtra CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray launched the first Girder of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) project at Sewri in Mumbai on Jan 15, 2019.
The 22 km long and 6 lanes wide road is going to connect Mumbai to Navi Mumbai which will further connect to JNPT and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
The first girder was launched in the presence of Minister, Urban Development & Chairman, MMRDA Eknath Shinde, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, R. A. Rajeev and other project officials.
“This project is going to be a boon for the city as it will save fuel & car operating cost, increase ease of transport & connectivity, decongest roads, save travel time & decrease air pollution. Once completed, MTHL will be the longest sea bridge in India”, twitted Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray after launching the first Girdar of MTHL project.
The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link project was envisaged about 35 years back. The project aims to connect the City of Mumbai with Navi Mumbai. Once completed, MTHL will be the longest sea bridge in India covering a total length of 21.8 kilometres.
The foundation stone for the project was laid down by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 December 2016.
On 9 November 2017, After evaluation of bids received from the 17 out of 29 shortlisted contractors, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) had awarded contracts to a consortium of Larsen and Toubro Limited (L&T) and Japan’s IHI Corporation, a consortium of Daewoo and Tata Projects Limited (TPL), and Larsen and Toubro Limited (L&T) to construct the Sewri side of sea bridge, the Navi Mumbai side of sea bridge, and the bridge portion on land towards Chirle respectively.
The contracts between the MMRDA and the L&T-IHI Corporation consortium were officially signed on 27 December 2017. The Larsen and Toubro Limited (L&T) was awarded two contracts – Rs 7,637.3 crores for the 10.38 km package-1 and Rs 1,013.79 crores for the 3.61 km package 3. The contract for the 7.807 km package 2 was signed with Daewoo and Tata Projects Limited at cost of Rs 5,612.61 crores.
The construction of the project was commenced on 24th April 2018. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 14,262 crores. The MTHL sea link will contain a 6 lane highway, which will be 27 meters in width, in addition to two emergency exit lanes, edge strip and crash barrier.
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6-km-long route will begin in 2020.
According to the MMRDA Plan the construction on the 9.2-km-long Metro 10 (Gaimukh-Shivaji Nagar) line; 12.7-km-long Metro-11 (Wadala-General Post Office) corridor; 20.7-km-long Metro-12 (Kalyan-Taloja) route; and 45-km-long Metro-14 (Kanjurmarg-Badlapur) corridor, which will give a major boost to connectivity in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
“The target is to complete the construction of 337km of Metro lines in MMR by 2026. We are also looking at making two lines, Metro-2A (Dahisar-DN Nagar) and Metro-7 (DN Nagar to Mandale), operational by the end of this year,” said R A Rajeev, metropolitan commissioner, MMRDA.
“The amount of work that was completed in Delhi in 20 years is being done in Mumbai in a span of five to seven years. Last year itself, we had undertaken work on a total 146-km-long Metro line.” Said Sonia Sethi, additional metropolitan commissioner.
“MMRDA has also completed 25% civil works on the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link, a sea-bridge connecting Mumbai and Navi Mumbai,” Rajeev added.
“We are also looking at opening the Kalanagar flyover by March and aim to complete the work of the Santacruz-Chembur link road and the Bandra-Kurla Complex-Vakola junction this year. The work on the Metro Bhavan in Aarey will also start soon,” said Rajeev. MMRDA has also appointed a private firm to study the traffic issues on the Western Express Highway.
HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) issue Safety Certificate to L&T Metro Rail Limited for the launch of commercial operation on Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) and Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS) route.
The CMRS Shri J K Garg has inspected JBS-MGBS Metro Corridor-2 along with HMRL MD, NVS Reddy and senior engineers and technical experts of L&T MRHL and also an independent engineer, Louis Berger over the past three days and issued the mandatory Safety Certificate.
After examining the safety certification of the 25kV Overhead electrical traction and other electrical installations by CEIG (Chief Electrical Inspector General), Fire clearance for the nine stations of the corridor by the Director General, Fire Services, signaling & train control systems by Thales, Canada, Internal Safety Assessment by Halcrow, UK and the results of the tests of various technical parameters during trial runs etc., the CMRS thoroughly inspected the corridor.
Mr. Garg covered all safety tests related to viaduct, track, signaling, telecom, trains and electric traction system, speed trials at high speed to check train behaviour, station structures, lifts and escalators, entry/exit points, ticketing systems, control rooms and passenger amenities and also checked Bhoiguda Metro ROB, bearings and viaduct during his inspection.
The Safety Certificate issued by CMRS has cleared the way for the introduction of passenger services on the last corridor of Hyderabad Metro Rail project phase-1. The corridor with a length of 11 km has nine stations, JBS-Parade Grounds, Secunderabad West, Gandhi Hospital, Musheerabad, RTC x roads, Chikkadapally, Narayanguda, Sultan Bazar and MGBS.
Receiving the Safety Certificate, Reddy said the government will decide the date of inauguration soon.
PUNE (Metro Rail News): Pune Metro completed its first trial train run on the 2.4-km elevated route in Pimpri in the city successfully on 10 Dec 2019
“On this historic day, the train drew its power from the overhead electric cable and ran on the track. This is indeed a great day for the Pune Metro project, which achieved this rare feat in record 30 months’ time.
This was possible because Pune Metro completed the foundation work, pillar work… track-laying, setting up electric poles, fixing overhead cables and commissioning of Metro trains in a scheduled and systematic manner,” said Brijesh Dixit, chairman and managing director of Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (Maha-Metro)
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4-km stretch. The trial run took place for about 30 minutes at 3 pm,” said Maha-Metro spokesperson Hemant Sonawane.
A few days ago, Maha-Metro had received two trains, with three coaches each, from Nagpur for the trial run. They were inducted and placed on the tracks.
The process to carry out the trial run had started on December 31. Sonawane said for 10 days, the train was being pulled by a shunting engine during the trial run process. “But on Friday, the train ran without the help of the shunting engine. It ran on its own,” he said.
The trial run also tested the complete synchronisation of various elements involved in the operation. “This rare feat was possible due to tremendous support from Pune residents and all the government authorities,” said Dixit.
Pune Metro has already approached the Research Design and Standardisation Organisation (RDSO), Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) and the Railway Board for obtaining various statutory permissions required for train operations. Officials of the board and these agencies are also expected to inspect the preparations before granting the requisite permissions. “It is only after getting permissions from RDSO, CMRS and Railway Board that Pune Metro will be able to run commercial services…,” said a Pune Metro official.
