Delhi Metro | CMRS to carry safety check of Shiv Vihar-Trilokpuri section on Pink Line

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20/10/2018

New Delhi: Finally Commissioner for Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) has given his date to carry out the safety inspection of 17.86 km long stretch of Shiv Vihar – Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake on Pink Line (Line-7) on October 20. After successful inspection and obtaining safety clearance, this section will be opened for the public. This section having 15 elevated stations including three interchange facilities. The stations come in this section are Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake, East Vinod Nagar-Mayur Vihar-II, Mandawali-West Vinod Nagar, IP Extension, Anand Vihar ISBT, Karkardooma, Karkardooma Court, Krishna Nagar, East Azad Nagar, Welcome, Jaffrabad, Maujpur- Babarpur, Gokulpuri, Johri Enclave, and Shiv Vihar.

The three interchange stations on this new section are Anand Vihar (Blue Line), Karkarduma (Blue Line) and Welcome (Red Line). After the opening of this new section, the Delhi Metro network will expand to 314 km. This section is expected to be opened soon and only Lajpat Nagar – Trilokpuri section will remain unopened due to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is facing a roadblock created by the local residents. The DMRC is trying to resolve the issue for a long time.

The Shiv Vihar-Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake stretch is part of the 59 km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor (Pink Line) which falls under the Phase-III project network of the DMRC. On August 6, the Majlis Park-Lajpat Nagar corridor was inaugurated, taking the Pink Line span to 29.66 km, and the entire operational span of the DMRC to 296 km with 214 stations.

The first corridor of the Pink Line, spanning over 20 km, from Majlis Park to Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus, was opened on March 14, connecting north and south campuses of the Delhi University on the DMRC network for the first time.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is fully set to provide all assistance to the CMRS to carry out the safety inspection of this section today. If everything found as per the norms, this section will be a big Diwali gift for Delhi Metro commuters.

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Anurita Dubey: A self motivated lady coordinating project OHSE in Mumbai Metro Line-3

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Mamta Shah

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18/10/2018

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Anurita Dubey working as Project OHSE Coordinator L&T STEC JV UGC-07 Mumbai Metro Line-3. She is a self-Motivated; Jolly Natured girl who thinks Sky is the limit if you will achieve it.

Education

She has done Bachelors of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from RGTU, Bhopal & M.Tech in Industrial Safety (University Topper) from IPS Academy Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Professional life

She started her career soon after the bachelors, there she got campus placement in Accenture Technology Pvt. Ltd. And later opted for Master’s Degree. In Industrial safety engineering which gave her a chance to contribute in Indian Industries and build a safe working environment Safety field was being neglected yet a very important one in India and now it’s one of the grooming industries which is helping her to serve the Nation. Success was always welcoming her as she was a topper throughout and got so many opportunities while her studies. She has worked as a trainer for heavy Locomotives drivers at Regional Vocational Training.

Institute in association with Volvo Eicher. Then soon after finishing her degree, she got placed in Bureau Veritas, Jindal steel Raigarh Plant and American International Group COE Bengaluru India and then she started her carrier back with American International Group. Some six months passed with lots of learning and world-class construction exposures while working as a Risk Engineer here came to a twist in her life. She took one year break as she was giving birth to new life. Now the real struggle started where so many people started suggesting to her that you should stay at home Mom as you don’t have any financial Liabilities as a family.

What the society fails to understand is that women must have a choice to either be a housewife or be a working mother rather than being forced to quit working after Motherhood. Thankfully to her family especially her husband supported her decision to restart her work back after 1 year of her child’s birth which wasn’t easy as she has to come out of the comfort zone and start her carrier back from basics.

Then she started back with a junior management role in a start-up consultancy where she got time flexibility due to her good performance. It was a ladder to her career but she kept pushing herself harder because she was driven by a desire to succeed and she was offered a job for the position of Project (Occupational Health Safety & Environment) OHSE Coordinator by L&T STEC JV UGC-07, MMRC Line 3, she was delighted as now she can be a part of nation building and do her bit towards society. It has been a tough yet fulfilling journey so far where she have to put double the efforts to prove her worth to a society prejudiced against women working in heavy construction Industry. And this is only possible because of unconditional support of her team and good working culture of her company (STEC) Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Corporation Ltd. Mumbai India.

Achievements

She has worked very hard with her team for submissions and achieved so many awards like RoSPA, OSHAI, BCCI, NSC, British Safety Council etc. for the Project, recently she has reached first milestone Mumbai metro first tunnel breakthrough on 24th of September 2018 which was Inaugurated by CM. Mr. Devendra Fadnavis. Got appreciation from Dr. E. Sreedharan also known as Metro Man of India for our work standards at UGC-07. She has been also a part of all safety motivational and promotional activities happening in MMRC Line-3 and by L&T STEC JV, she has taken all the opportunities like heavy crane inspections, site visits, Audits observations and compliance and all other project contract requirements right from scratch to end for learning and implementing her knowledge and skills for the successful completion of their project with mission zero Harm.

Message to other Women

Start harnessing in the right direction…no one can stop you from succeeding if you are driven by a desire to be one. We, women, are the real architects of the society.
– Anurita Dubey

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Exclusive interview of APM Mohammad Hanish, Managing Director, Kochi Metro

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Priyanka Sahu

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18/10/2018

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APM Mohammad Hanish, Managing Director, Kochi Metro

Mr. Mohammad Hanish is an IAS officer of 1996 Batch. Who got worked in the Kerala cadre with different positions like District Collector, Director of School Education Department, secretary PWD & Urban Development, Secretary received the state E-Governance Award instituted by the Govt. of Kerala for the initiatives taken in Education Department. Recently, Metro Rail News has conducted an interview with IAS APM Mohammed Hanish, Managing Director of Kochi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. Here are excerpts:

1. Express your feelings on completion of one-year services, what are achievements you made within a year?

Kochi Metro has completed one year of operations and we are very much happy about the present state of affairs. We have a daily average ridership of around 35000 and have secured 43.5crore as non-fare box revenue so far.

KMRL is also slowly getting sustainability in the energy conservation through Solar Energy. Presently we have the capacity of 2.670 MWp has commissioned until May 2018. The plant has generated the solar energy of 28,22 Lakh cumulative units until September 2018. The solar energy generation for the month of September 2018 stands at 2.7 lakh units.

KMRL has set up plastic bottles the recycling in three of our metro stations. We have started free bicycle sharing project in connection with all metro stations from Edappally to Maharajas as part of our NMT initiative

2. What is the step KMRL has taken for environment safety and utilization of solar energy?

A capacity of 2.670 MWp has been commissioned up to May 2018. The plant has generated the solar energy of 17.66 Lakh cumulative units until April 2018. The solar energy generation for the month of April 2018 stands at 2.5 lakh units.

Presently, the annual energy requirement of KMRL stands at 20 Million units. The enhanced capacity of 2.670MWp is capable of providing about 19% of the annual energy requirement.

Ground Mount: The plant, once commissioned will be able to generate about 8700 KWh (units) per day, which is about 3.2 Million units per annum. This will improve the share of solar power to 35% of the present total energy consumption of KMRL.

The solar energy vision is envisaging achieving energy independence or energy neutrality up to 40% of the annual energy consumption by Dec 2019. It is aimed to install a solar plant at further Six stations and associated buildings, so as to achieve the above goal.

3. How does KMRL, the connection of Metro to rail and as well as to water transportation facilities managed? Which one of the unique features Kochi metro?

Kochi is a city, surrounded by water and when we talk about integrating multi-modal transportation and making public transport a preferred mode of transport KMRL had to address the issue of connecting with islands around the city too. Though we have an existing water transport system, it is not robust and reliable. That is why KMRL decided to venture into water transport too.

The integrated water transport project executed by KMRL is expected to cover 15 routes, 76-route km with 78 boats covering 45 terminals. More than 100,000 islanders are expected to benefit from the Water Metro.

For the complete interview, please read our Metro Rail News Magazine November issue.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC construction work to hit brakes after 20 years

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Priyanka Sahu

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18/10/2018

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New Delhi: On January 1, 2019, may begin without one of Delhi’s most ubiquitous sights for the past two decades of construction work of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

Now DMRC is yet to receive approval for Phase IV from the Delhi government, which has not cleared it since 2015. After receiving it the state government’s approval, DMRC will have to approach the Centre for its go-ahead. Given that it is already the middle of October, there’s little chance of that changing by the end of the year.

By the end of December, they will finish Phase III and also start operations. In an e-mail response, DMRC confirmed this and added that with no approval in sight, it will “not be in a position to start the implementation of Phase IV, said Senior DMRC officials.

On Monday Union minister of housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, criticised the Kejriwal government for “holding up development projects in Delhi”. He said that the Phase IV proposal has been stuck with the Delhi government for almost three years now with no signs of progress.

Mr. Puri said that whenever I meet the CM I remind him to expedite the Phase IV proposal but he keeps giving some excuse or the other. There is a pattern with this government. They are not allowing development projects to happen.

At proposed 21.73km Rithala-Narela corridor and the 22km Tughlakabad-Terminal 1 section, citing “financial losses”.
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Senior Delhi government officials who asked not to be named said at the time that the other four corridors — Janakpuri West-RK Ashram (28.92km), Mukundpur-Maujpur (12.54km), Inderlok-Indraprastha (12.58km ) and Lajpat Nagar-Saket G Block (7.96km) — were cleared.

It has not received any official communication from the Delhi government rejecting these two routes or approving the other four routes. Anuj Dayal, executive director (corporate communications) at DMRC, said that the Delhi government had on January 29 intimated that two corridors (Rithala-Narela and Tughlakabad-Terminal 1) could be deferred for the time being, said on Monday.

This is the first time since DMRC started construction work in the city in 1998 that any proposed corridor of the Delhi Metro has been stuck in bureaucratic delays.

The reason for “financial viability” cited by the Delhi government should not stand in the case of large development projects such as the Metro, said Virendra Kumar Sharma, transport economist and infrastructure planner.

He also added that the properties develop on the pretext of Metro projects. Areas such as Dwarka, Mundka and Noida Extension have developed only after the announcement of Metro reaching there. The coming of the Metro makes a locality financially viably. Such infrastructure plans should be kept away from politics.

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Maha Metro Rail Corporation looking for Junior Engineers for Nagpur project

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Mamta Shah

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17/10/2018

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Nagpur: The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha Metro) Limited intends to appoint qualified and experienced Junior Engineers for Nagpur Metro Rail Project:-

1. Junior Engineer (Civil) – 3 posts
2. Junior Engineer (Electrical) – 3 posts
3. Junior Engineer (S&T) – 4 posts
4. Junior Engineer (Mechanical) – 2 posts

Pay Scale: Rs.33000-100000/-

Maximum Age Limit: 32 years

Educational Qualification: Diploma/Degree in Engineering in the relevant discipline.

Experience: One year.

Selection Process: Personal Interview

Eligible candidate may apply on the prescribed format and send the application along with all supporting documents to:-

The Addl. General Manager (Human Resource)

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited

Metro House, 28/2, CK Naidu Marg

Anand Nagar, Civil Lines,

Nagpur-440001, Maharashtra

For more details, please log on to http://www.mahametro.org/Career.aspx

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Delhi Metro | DMRC plans to expand 6-coach trains to 8-coach ones

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Priyanka Sahu

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17/10/2018

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New Delhi: On October 16, 2018, Delhi Metro has planned to induct more carriages to expand six-coach trains on its busy corridors to eight-coach ones to facilitate commuters during rush hours, sources said.

For providing immediate relief to commuters, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) plans to procure 156 coaches, out of which, 120 broad gauge coaches are required for converting six-coach train sets into eight-coach trains on Line 1 (Red Line), Line 2 (Yellow Line), Line 3 (Blue Line) and Line 4 (Blue Line), they said.

“Besides, 36 coaches (six train sets of six coaches each) for the Airport Express Line on account of the extension of Airport Express Line to Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre, Dwarka, have also been planned,” a source said.

The new coaches, however, will not be used on Pink Line and Magenta Line, as the services on both networks are operated on standard-gauge, the sources said.
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In August, the DMRC had requested the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) to provide funds for procuring additional rolling stock to mitigate overcrowding in the existing network and improve the frequency of trains, especially in light of various measures taken by the government for pollution control.

The request is still under consideration. Though the NCRPB usually does not extend such loans for purchasing train coaches, the DMRC is hopeful this time and that is the reason why the metro corporation has planned to float tenders, the sources added.

Recently DMRC has also facilitated payment of Metro fares with QR code at two stations falling between the Heritage Line (Mandi House from Kashmiri Gate) and Mandla House started from Lal Qila and Jama Masjid. However, this experiment was not very successful at these two stations. People did not get information because its promotion was low. There are very few passengers traveling between the two stations.

Red Line (Dilshad Garden), Blue Line (Dwarka-Vaishali/Noida City Centre) and Yellow Line (Samyapur Badli-Huda City Centre) carry the bulk of the traffic on Delhi Metro network.
The current operational span of the DMRC stands at 296 km with 214 stations.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC invites bids for supply of 40 broad gauge Rolling Stock coaches

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Mamta Shah

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17/10/2018

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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) invites open e-tenders from agencies on international competitive bidding (ICB) basis for the design, manufacture, supply, testing and commissioning of broad gauge cars (Rolling Stock) for the project. The cars to be supplied under this tender shall be compatible and suitable for integration with the existing Broad Gauge RS2, RS5, RS7, and RS11 type trains of DMRC supplied by BT consortium.

The scope of Work:

DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, SUPPLY, TESTING AND COMMISSIONING OF 40 NUMBERS BROAD GAUGE CARS COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING RS2 TYPE TRAINS SUPPLIED BY BT CONSORTIUM.

Key details:

Approximate cost of work: INR 4620 Million (excluding taxes and duties)
Tender Security amount: INR 47 Million
Expected Completion period of the Work: 100 weeks
Tender documents Download/Sale date: From 10.10.2018 to 12.12.2018 (up to 10:00
hrs) on e-tendering website https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app
Cost of Tender documents: INR 23,600/- (inclusive of 18% GST)
Last date of Seeking Clarification: 05.11.2018
Pre-bid Meeting: 12.11.2018 at 11.00 hrs
Last date of issuing addendum and DMRC’s response to queries: 28.11.2018
Date & time of Submission of Tender: 12.12.2018 up to 11:00 Hrs.
Date & time of opening of Tender: 13.12.2018 @ 11:05 Hrs.
Authority and place for submission of Tender Document cost and seeking
clarifications: Chief Electrical Engineer/Rolling Stock-III, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., 3rd Floor, NBCC Place, Bhishma Pitamah Marg, Pragati Vihar, New Delhi – 110003

REGISTRATION PROCESS

1) Bidders are required to enroll on the e-Procurement module of the Central Public Procurement Portal (URL: https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app) by clicking on the link “Online Bidder Enrollment” on the CPP Portal which is free of charge.
2) As part of the enrolment process, the bidders will be required to choose a unique username and assign a password for their accounts.
3) Bidders are advised to register their valid email address and mobile numbers as part of the registration process. These would be used for any communication from the CPP Portal.
4) Upon enrolment, the bidders will be required to register their valid Digital Signature Certificate (Class II or Class III Certificates with signing key usage) issued by any Certifying Authority recognized by CCA India, with their profile.
5) Only one valid DSC should be registered by a bidder. Please note that the bidders are responsible to ensure that they do not lend their DSC’s to others which may lead to misuse.
6) The bidder then logs in to the site through the secured log-in by entering their user ID/password and the password of the DSC /e-Token.

For more details, please write to editor@metrorailnews.in

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Banglore Metro | BMRCL Writes to IL&FS Unit over ORR Metro Line Contract

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Priyanka Sahu

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16/10/2018

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BMRCL Airport line work complete by December 2024 at the cost of Rs. 800 Crores — Image Source: BMRCL

Bengaluru: Before taking a final call on awarding the 19 Km Outer Ring Road (ORR), the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) has written to IL&FS Engineering and Construction seeking its response to eight queries. With IL&FS in a deep mess, the BMRCL wants to insulate its projects from any problems in the future.

The IL&FS is a subsidiary of debt-ridden group company IL&FS has participated in all the three packages of Bengaluru’s 19-km ORR metro project.

The BMRCL wants to insulate its projects from any problems in the future 19-km Outer Ring Road (ORR) contract.

Ajay Seth, managing director of BMRCL said that there is need to wait… No decision, either canceling of bids or calling fresh tenders for ORR metro work, has been taken till now,”

The letter to IL&FS gains significance as the construction firm is said to have quoted the lowest prices in the remaining two packages of ORR metro as well. In all, five construction firms had qualified in the technical rounds. The 19-km project, divided into three packages for speed.

The BMRCL has also cited the annual reports 2017-18 of IL&FS Construction and Engineering, which acknowledges severe stress in terms of cash flows. The officials have sought to know if IECCL can improve cash flow and whether the company is affected by the huge debt of IL&FS. Another question asked was if IECCL sustains financially without support from the promoter. The construction firm has been given 10 days to respond. “Getting documents from the parent company will be easier for IL&am.

In August this year, the BMRCL had formed a separate team to study the finances of IL&FS after reports of company’s financial troubles became public. The debt-ridden IL&FS quoting lowest prices in all three packages and other contractors possibly ganging up to quote high prices have put the BMRCL in a catch-22 situation. It was way back in February 2018 that the BMRCL had floated bids for civil works on the ORR metro line. Canceling the bids would mean repeating the process all over again which went on for almost eight months.

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Mumbai Metro | MMRDA confirmed the contract for 378 metro coaches to be finalised

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Priyanka Sahu

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16/10/2018

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Mumbai: The contract for 378 coaches (rolling stock) for three metro lines will be finalized by the end of this month, confirmed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). The coaches are being procured by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), the nodal agen-cy for metro 2A (Dahisar to D.N. Nagar); metro 2B (D.N. Nagar to Mandale); and metro 7 (Andheri east to Dahisar east).

“The contractor for purchasing the rolling stock will be finalized by the end of this month. The financial bids will be opened and the cost will be analyzed before awarding the contract,” said Pravin Darade, additional metropolitan commissioner, MMRDA.

Nearly seven companies had come forward for the bidding process including Hyundai Rote-m (Korea); Bombardier India & Bombardier Ger-many; CRRC Corpor-ati-on Ltd; Bharat Earth Mo-vers Ltd; Titagarh Wag-ons & Titagarh Firema; Alstom Transport India & Alstom SA; and CAF India & CAF Spain. The contractor will be responsible for providing 378 coaches for the three metro lines. The authority had floated tenders on April 19 this year.

Along with providing rolling stock, the eligible contractor will be responsible for setting up signaling and telecommunication, platform screen doors, lifts and automatic fare collection gates at the metro stations. The bids were floated after much delay as the Asian Development Bank, which is funding metro projects, did not approve of the “Make in India” policy.

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Mumbai Metro | State gives conditional nod to Monorail phase 2

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Priyanka Sahu

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16/10/2018

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Mumbai: The state government has given a conditional nod to phase 2 of the monorail (Wadala to Jacob Circle) after rejecting the proposal earlier in June. The urban development department had asked that certain safety measures be complied with. Phase 2 will be operational in 2019 but the authority is yet to procure the additional rakes necessary for running both phases.

“We had submitted another report to the state government. They have granted a conditional nod for commissioning the second phase of the monorail. All permissions have been sorted from the state’s side,” said a senior official from the Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).

The Asian Age had reported in its June 13 edition about the proposal to start the corridor being returned to the MMRDA by the urban development department.

Initially, the UDD had sought compliance with the recommendation of the Commissioner of Railway Safety in the wake of the fire that gutted two monorail coaches last year. In addition to this, the department had also sought a clarification on the state legislature’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report which slammed the authority for poor planning and misjudging the feasibility of the monorail corridor.

The MMRDA is expecting the second phase by March 2019 but the shortage of rakes still stands in the way. “The rakes are yet to be purchased. There are not enough rakes to begin both phases now,” said the official. In April this year, the authority had decided to directly purchase the rakes instead of getting them through contractors in a bid to get the corridor started quickly.
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