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.
Citing the hardships faced by commuters, senior citizens have demanded a bridge that will connect sector-51 station of Noida Metro’s Aqua line with the nearby Delhi Metro Blue line.
200 M Walk
Currently, passengers have to exit at Sector 51 station and walk nearly 200 metres on an under-construction road to take the Blue line at Sector 52 station. The 29.7-km Aqua line runs between Sector 51 and Depot stations.
“What is more painful is that commuters need to get themselves frisked again to board the Blue Line, thus consuming a lot of time,” said a senior citizen and He demanded that the Noida Metro Rail Corporation consider building a bridge to connect the two stations.
further, he said that I do not understand why the Noida Metro Rail Corporation is causing such big trouble to senior citizens and women travelling with children to walk on a road to board the Blue Line. They must build a bridge as early as possible. he has given a suggestion in this regard officially to the Noida Metro authority.
People can take e-rickshaws, run by Noida rail corporation at free of cost, at Sector 51 to go to the Blue Line station but during the peak hours or late in the night the e-rickshaws are unavailable. Moreover, the road on which the e-rickshaws ply, is filled with dust as construction is underway. buy flexeril online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/en/flexeril.html no prescription
Metro Rail News Team get an opportunity to interview Mr. Keun Young Kim, Chairman, World Token Issued Alliance (WTIA) & Chairman, AH Group Korea in 5th Smart Cities India Expo 2019 at Pragati Maidan on 23 May 2019. WTIA will provide a full solution such as fund, operation, Technical, IT, etc. Here is the excerpt of the interview
Mr. Narendra Shah, Managing Editor, Metro Rail News shaking hands with Mr. Keun Young Kim (Chairman, AH Group and WITA).
1. Brief us about you and your current roles and responsibilities in your company?.
Mr. Keun Young Kim: I am currently the chairman of AH GROUP KOREA, and I am carrying out the work to help our nation’s companies participate in overseas development projects we are involved in business consulting.
2. What is the role of AH Group to develop rail infrastructure in India
K.Ponnambalam, Chief consultant, Mirai sensing, A.S.Muralitharan Director, Mirai sensing, Keun Young Kim, Chairman, AH Group Korea and WITA, Mr. Narendra Shah, Managing Editor, Metro Rail News (Left to Right)
Mr. Keun Young Kim: India is one of the most potential countries in Asia, and I think it is a very important project for India to build a railway infrastructure that connects the vast land. South Korea also hopes to play a role in introducing the Korean own technology to India’s railway construction projects, as it has been accumulating much effort and technology in building the national infrastructure for years.
3. Provide some insight about on current ongoing innovation for Metro Rail
Mr. Keun Young Kim: In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, I believe that all mechanical means are also bound to develop in tandem with the electronic industry and that the system of controlling and managing them, although industrial classifications call it the railway industry, is based on the ICT industry. As a result, we believe that convergence should be carried out in conjunction with flexible ICT-based systems early in infrastructure deployment, and that overall planning and design is critical.
4. Who is your local partner in India and why you select?
Left to Right: Mr. Oh-Cheol Kwon (CEO, SM Wave Co. Ltd), Mr. A.S.Muralidaran, Mr. Keun Young Kim (Chairman, AH Group and WITA), Mr. Narendra Shah (Managing Editor, Metro Rail news)
Mr. Keun Young Kim: Our Indian partner is Mr. A.S.Muralidaran, who has been doing a lot of business together for a long time. Now we are planning together a future-oriented innovative business model. He is a man who always respects everyone and has a humble character, but who is second to none in professional opinion.
5. What kind of solution you are offering for the metro project?
Mr. Keun Young Kim: In the hyper-connected era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution we now face, the most important part is the operating system that can successfully manage railway projects and the importance of system security to them will be greater. We have worked and prepared to complete industrial approaches to these areas, and we hope to provide related solutions.
6. Please explain super concrete?
Mr. Keun Young Kim, Chairman AH group & WTIA with Mrs. Priyanka Sahu, Director (BD), Metro Rail News
Mr. Keun Young Kim Super Concrete is one of the projects developed by Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) to develop new materials for dry run as part of a national technology development project. As the research and development has been conducted at a national level, it has the advantage of being able to finish with higher strength and liquid type than conventional concrete. Currently, it has attempted to apply to the construction of bridges, residential and commercial spaces and abroad construction projects, and is still trying to secure more architectural cases.
MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): India’s First Indigenous Semi High-Speed “Train-18” will come out of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) by the end of this month. This is the second semi-high-speed train of the country and expected to run between Delhi and Mumbai.
Vande Bharat originally designed as Train-18. It was named Train 18 because it’s introduced in 2018. Although There was a plan to bring a new type of train named Train-19 this year. But now that plan has been cancelled. Instead, more sets of train-18 will now be prepared.
Change in train design
There has been some change in the design of the train. As in the previous train, There was not enough room for the meal. Cattleguards have been installed so that no incidents will happen of animal cutting.
Vande Bharat Express is India’s new train sets are different and better in many ways than the current train. For instance, it would be possible to have their seats tilted back. They will also have a place to keep food. Apart from this, steps have been taken to open manually in the case of the jam of their external automatic doors.
Time will be saved
It will be run between Delhi and Mumbai. This train will take 12 hours to reach Delhi from Mumbai, while the Mumbai Rajdhani Express takes 16 hours to cover the distance between Delhi and Mumbai. This high-speed train will reach you at your destination for four hours in advance. The distance from Delhi to Mumbai is 1358 kilometres.
Two executive chair car
The entire train is equipped with air-conditioned and chair car, which has 16 coaches. Two of these will be Executive Chair Car and the rest will be the General Chair Car Coach. The doors of the train will be closed automatically before the operation. To move from the first coach to the last coach, doors have been installed inside the train. At the time of the stay of the train, the stairs will come out from inside the coach.
Other Routes for Vande Bharat Express:
The other routes which are discussed for Vande Bharat include Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Jaipur, Delhi-Bhopal besides Chennai-Mangalore and Hyderabad-Mangalore routes. This train will be run on 500 km or less distant routes. The reason for this is that travellers generally do not like to travel more than six hours. While the journey of Delhi-Varanasi has to sit for eight hours.
CHENNAI (Metro Rail News): India’s first engine-less semi-high speed Train 18 coaches demand from some Southeast Asian and South American countries will be considered after meeting the domestic need, a Railway Board member said on May 20, 2019
Integral Coach Factory Rolling out the 60,000th manufactured coach. ICF would roll out 40 Train 18 trainsets in the immediate future Said Railway Board member (Rolling Stock), Rajesh Agrawal.
Mr. Agrawal said in a statement that Some of the Southeast Asian and South American nations have shown interest in Train 18 coaches. Although, it will be considered after fulfilling the needs of Indian Railways.
India’s first self-propelled (engine-less) Train 18, which was rolled out last year, presently runs between New Delhi and Varanasi as Vande Bharat Express.
Agrawal further added that It is a matter of pride that ICF has rolled out 3,262 coaches last year (2018-19) making ICF the largest coach manufacturer in the world. In the next year itself, ICF will break its own record by producing more than 4,000 coaches.
In Current Year, The official also said ICF would take up design, development and production of Train 19, a sleeper version of Train 18.
About ₹2,500 crore infrastructure improvement projects are being planned for coach production units of the Indian Railways, According to the release.
HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) and L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) are set to complete the entire Corridor by July 2019. Corridor III will connect Nagole to Raidurg via Hitech City.
Currently, metro rail services are being run from Nagole to Ameerpet normally and from Ameerpet to HiTec City. the operations are run on twin tracks since the line up to Raidurg is still under construction and the ‘reversal’ at the HiTec City.
‘reversal’ will be ready soon, considering the logistics involved in running an extra train from Begumpet metro station towards HiTec City to keep up the frequency, discussions are on to make the entire route ready for more efficient services till the Mindspace Junction where the terminal station is getting completed said NVS Reddy, MD, HMRL
EV charging
a few days ago, Shri Arvind Kumar, Municipal Administration & Urban Development Secretary inaugurated an electric vehicle charging facility at Begumpet, the eighth across various metro rail stations by Fortum, a Finnish government-owned company which has an agreement with HMR to establish electric vehicle (EV) charging network across the project.
“This is a great step by HMR and within an hour, a car can be charged while citizens travel by the metro. Depending on the demand, we can step up the facility towards encouraging non-polluting electric vehicles,” said Mr. Kumar, who also threw open an automatic parking facility by ‘Park Hyderabad’ at the station.
Currently, EV services are free and charges to be decided soon could be ₹15 per unit for charging 40-60 minutes for a vehicle for travel up to 140 km Mr
This comes to ₹1-1.80 per km and the rates could further reduce with more demand.
Fortum has 40 EV stations across the country, 36 in the capital (26 at metro rail stations itself) whereas there are just two each at Delhi and Mumbai.
Parking plan
Integrated smart parking system operational at 24 stations between Miyapur-Ameerpet-Nagole will soon be available on a mobile app providing real time information about parking availability for bikes and cars for about 4,000 two-wheeler bays and 250 four-wheeler bays from 6.30 a.m. to 10.30 p.m.
Digital payments can be made and it will be tied up with L&TMRH run parking bays, he said.
While regular parking charges are ₹3 for bikes and ₹8 for cars per hour, under the Park Hyderabad Citizen mobile app, the charges will be ₹5 for two hours to ₹30 for 15 hours.
NOIDA (Metro Rail News): Noida Metro services came to a standstill between Noida and Greater Noida during peak hours on Wednesday and leaving several commuters stranded.
The Security personnel deployed at the Aqua line metro, protest against the non-payment of salaries by their security agency and halted their services of Metro stations’ security frisking areas.
To add to the woes of the passengers, the services were stopped, stretching over two hours, leaving them to look for other modes of transportation.
Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary provide security of the Aqua Line stations and the Ironman Security Services provide general security and frisking of the passenger. The security staff form these services struck from work in to demonstrate their agony of non-repayment of salaries from 6 am to 8 am. This time footfalls in the metro are the highest due to work hours.
Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) officials said The matter has been taken seriously and is considered a lapse of security. The services were put to a stop at the Sector 81, 83, 101, 137 and NSEZ Metro stations. The staff of the private security were not at their positions and refused to carry out their duties that caused a ruckus at the metro stations. Arguments broke out between the guards and passengers due to the inconvenience.
With no one at the check posts, passengers could not access the metro and had to resort to other modes of transport. The staff had not given a prior notice with regard to the strike and hence all were taken by surprise.
“Adequate action will be taken against the staff that put a stop to their services and causes inconvenience to the passengers,” said officials.
If such an incident occurs so that NMRC is bound to be disqualified the security agencies. The security agency assured that such an incident will not be repeated as they will pay their staff their salaries by the seventh of every month. The agency has submitted an unconditional apology regretting the inconvenience and embarrassment caused to the NMRC.
New Delhi (Metro Rail News): Normal services were restored on Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line on Tuesday nearly four hours after a technical glitch on a section of the corridor left thousands of commuters stranded.
According to the officials, The train services were hit around 9.32 am due to a breakdown of the overhead wire (OHE) at Sultanpur station, leading to tripping of power supply in the section.
There was no train movement between Sultanpur and Qutub Minar stations. Chhattarpur station falls between Sultanpur and Qutub Minar. In Rush-hour commuters were left hassled as trains were temporarily run in two loops — between Huda City Centre and Sultanpur and between Samaypur Badli and Qutub Minar.
Yellow Line Update
Normal services have now resumed. Inconvenience is regretted. Please allow for some extra time in your commute till the bunching of trains eases. https://t.co/Nnqw2VvmIE
— Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (@OfficialDMRC) May 21, 2019
Two maintenance teams of DMRC technicians, comprising 16 officials, worked to rectify the problem and trains were initially run at a restricted speed between Chhattarpur and Qutub Minar stations.
Nearly three-and-a-half hours later, end-to-end services were partially restored, with trains plying between Qutub Minar and Sultanpur stations with a lower frequency and in another 30 minutes, normal services resumed.
Delhi Metro constantly updated the status of the disruption and rectification on its social media platforms to inform commuters.
Two maintenance teams of DMRC technicians consisting of 16 officials worked urgently to rectify the problem. Temporary restoration has been completed and trains are expected to run at restricted speed between Chhattarpur and Qutub Minar soon. pic.twitter.com/0N9WMpiAU9
— Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (@OfficialDMRC) May 21, 2019
“Normal services have now resumed. Inconvenience is regretted. Please allow for some extra time in your commute till the bunching of trains eases,” the DMRC said in a tweet.
The 48.8 km-long Yellow Line has 37 stations and has an average daily ridership of about 7 to 8 lakh.
KOCHI (Metro Rail News): Social Impact Study for the Phase II expansion of the Metro line from Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium to Infopark via Kakkanad completed by The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL).
Phase II Expansion of Kochi Metro, preliminary notification and detailed survey work for preparing sketches for land acquisition are underway.
The revised detailed project report (DPR) for kochi metro Phase II has been submitted to the Central Government for approval. The cost of the project saw de-escalation in the revised DPR. Instead of the earlier project cost of Rs. 2,557 crore, the revised cost is `1,957 crore. The state government has already given administrative sanction for the revised DPR.
The KMRL plans to acquire 2.8630 hectares along the Stadium-Infopark-Kakkanad stretch. Out of the total land to be acquired, 0.72 hectares is government land. Land belonging to 402 individuals will be taken over for the project.
KMRL Managing Director A P M Mohammed Hanish said “The draft declaration for land acquisition is expected to be published soon. The KMRL is working in tandem with the district administration to speed up acquisition proceedings. If the land acquisition will get over by October/November, KMRL is hopeful of launching the preparatory work for Kakkanad extension by December 2019,”. buy female viagra online no prescription
The KMRL chief said the agency is awaiting Central Government sanction for the Phase II. “We hope the administrative sanction will be given by the new Union Government by June or July,” he said. The state government had already accorded administrative sanction for widening the Seaport-Airport Road from Kakkanad Collectorate Junction to Infopark Expressway entrance for a length of 2.5 km into a four-lane stretch. “Tender process for awarding the contract is in the final stages,” said Hanish.
The widening of the Seaport-Airport Road is essential to carry out civil works of Kochi Metro along the Collectorate and Infopark stretch as the vehicular traffic is very high on this road. Hence, the barricading of the road for Metro work is not possible without widening.
“The alignment of Phase II passes through the Seaport Road from Kakkanad Collectorate Junction to Infopark Expressway entrance and widening of this stretch is critical for the implementation of Phase II,” said a KMRL officer.
NOIDA (Metro Rail News): The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is planning for at least two new Metro line to connect its area to Delhi to ensure a smooth ride for commuters and to enhance connectivity.
The proposed plan is to extend the Delhi Metro Blue Line from Noida City Centre to linked with Line 8 (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden) of DMRC’s Phase-III by a 16.5-km stretch connecting Sector-143 and Kalindi Kunj and Okhla Bird Sanctuary stations. This extension will give commuters two options — Magenta line to Kalindi Kunj and Blue line to Mayur Vihar.
A second proposal is to build a high-speed Metro corridor via Badarpur, Faridabad. This 66-km high-speed link will run parallel to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) at Bodaki and connect to Badarpur station, Delhi and Gurugram at IGI international airport.
Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) is studying the feasibility of a Metro project connecting Noida’s Aqua Line from Sector 71, which will serve as an interchange station with Greater Noida west’s Gaur City Square in Sector 2. This line will then be extended to Knowledge Park-V (KP-V) in Greater Noida.
It will consist of a 15-km line, which will be extended to Bodaki village in Greater Noida. Finally, Bodaki will be connected with Noida City Centre via stations at Pari Chowk and Noida sectors-147, 143, 85, 101 and 50, among others. This Metro project, which was proposed in 2015 and was to become operational by 2021 had been stalled in 2017 because the route was not economically viable, considering the low population in the area. With Greater Noida west becoming a hub of multi-storied housing complexes, the authority has decided to revisit the project.
As per the report of GNIDA officials, all proposals are likely to be taken to an upcoming board meeting of Greater Noida Authority on May 31 before being forwarded to the UP Govt for further action including preparing of detailed project reports and pattern for funding.
Shir Narendra Bhooshan, CEO, GNIDA said that On receiving the board’s go ahead, we will authorize NMRC to study the feasibility and viability of the projects. “The aim for the Metro network expansions is to put into place a holistic and comprehensive network of public transport with optimum connectivity to cater to a large number of commuters.”
HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Hyderabad Metro Rail is committed to providing eco-friendly green services, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations would be set up at the Metro stations and not only adds another mode of transportation but also helped many residents of the city in cutting their travel time.
Hyderabad Metro Rail officials had put off the opening of three stations (Madhapur, Pedammagudi, Jubilee Hills check-post) when the stretch was inaugurated on March 20, 2019 by Governor and due to the pending works at the station.
HMRL managing director NVS Reddy said, “Commuters in and around Jubilee Hills check-post and KBR park can now access the metro,”.
