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Monorail | The operational cost of Mumbai Monorail to raise up to 130%

29/08/2018

Mumbai: India’s only Monorail operational cost to more than double as per latest development. There is an expected 130% hike in the per-trip cost of operation from ₹4,600 to ₹10,600. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) panel has suggested increasing the per-trip fare.

A panel was constituted by MMRDA on August 15 to bring closure to the deadlock between monorail operator and MMRDA over per-trip expense. After discussions and deliberation, the committee has in its report suggested on increasing the per-trip cost to ₹10,600 from ₹4,600.

MMRDA was already incurring losses while operating the 8.9-km section of the monorail between Chembur and Wadala (Phase-1). Ironically, with panel suggesting a hike in per-trip fare, MMRDA will feel a further dent. The state agency will be incurring additional losses if the fare is implemented.

As per the arrangement, MMRDA pays the per-trip fare to monorail operators. The fare is paid for the operational and maintenance cost for the monorail corridor.

The monorail operators are a consortium comprising of Scomi Engineering (LTSE) and Larsen & Toubro. Recently, they had put forth the demand for revising the per-trip rate. They had demanded ₹18,000 per trip as per MMRDA authorities.

The deadlock between the consortiums has to be resolved by MMRDA before restarting Chembur-Wadala arm of the monorail. The line was closed post-fire incident in November last year.

MMRDA is eyeing to start operation on this line from September 1.

Senior MMRDA officials shared that the panel has given its report suggesting a revision. They have asked to increase the fare to ₹10,600 per trip. The committee has asked for better man power management that will aid MMRDA is running the monorail cost effectively.

The reason MMRDA is running into losses is due to low ridership rate. The per day passenger counts is around 18,000. This is very low considering MMRDA looks after salaries and electricity fare expenses.

MMRDA is banking on Phase 2 of Monorail project to be made between Wadala and Jacob Circle. Once this route is operational things would be much viable.

In coming months MMRDA hopes the Monorail ridership to touch 1 lakh per day. This will considerably reduce the load on MMRDA.

By next years, the Wadala-Chembur is likely to be commissioned. This line will pass all the way through densely populated areas. It will also have intersections with suburban railway stations.

MMRDA to ensure incident free operations plans to install high-resolution CCTV cameras. They will also place smoke detectors close to tyres. They will closely monitor the operation from control room in Wadala to avert any untoward incident.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC begins trial of violet line from Escort Mujesar to Ballabhgarh

Priyanka Sahu

29/08/2018

Haryana: On 24 August trial runs started for the 3.2-kilometre long section from Escorts Mujesar till Ballabhgarh. After starting this section this will become the fourth city in Haryana to get Metro connectivity after Gurgaon, Faridabad, and Bahadurgarh.

The section is scheduled to be opening in September or by October 2018. Which was subject to the approval by the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety.

This extension of Delhi Metro’s Violet line with these two stations – NCB Colony and Ballabhgarh. The total length of the violet line after the opening of this extension, the entire Kashmere Gate – Ballabhgarh Metro corridor will become 46.6 kilometers long.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) sources said that during the trial runs, the interaction of the Metro train with physical infringements (civil structure) will be checked to ensure that there is no physical blockage during the movement of the train on the track.
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The entire signaling system will also undergo rigorous testing.

A DMRC source further added that the response of the train at different speeds, braking of the train and the interconnection with the Operations Control Centre (OCC) will also be monitored during the trials. The behavior of the track system and the Over Head Electrification (OHE) will be checked repeatedly during all the trials.

About Violet line:

The violet line which is one of the eight line of Delhi Metro, a rapid transit system in Delhi India. This line which connects the Kashmere Gate station of New Delhi to Escort Mujesar in Faridabad. This line consists the total 32 metro station whose total length is 40.35 kilometers (25.07 mi) metro station. The extension of southward till Escort-Mujesar in Faridabad extension was by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ber 2015.

At present, the total length of 25.8 km of Metro lines is operational across Haryana. After starting this section, the total length of Metro in Haryana will become 29 Kilometre.

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Kolkata Metro | Police nabs 2 Bangladeshis for metro site theft

Darshana Shukla

28/08/2018

Kolkata: In what is seen a cross-border criminal robbery at Kolkata metro site, police has finally managed to nab 2 Bangladeshis among 8 held for. As per reports, Kolkata Police has arrested eight people for their involvement in loot and extortion at biggest infrastructure project on Saturday. It so turned out that two of the arrested are Bangladeshi.

Police also is not ruling out the possibility that the other six can be from the neighbouring country too. The police officials feel that the remaining six might be residing in Kolkata on forged documents.

The arrest in the weekend comes less than a week subsequent to the first four arrests for the dacoity at the New Town site of the New Garia-Airport Metro project- the longest of the three in progress Metro projects in Kolkata.

Construction work on this route had hindered earlier as well. This is owing to the same issue of dacoity. Thankfully, is the first time that the police have established direct connection of cross-border criminals in such a significant infrastructure project being executed by government agencies in the city.

Senior HR Manager of IL&FS Alak Kumar Pan shared that involvement of Bangladeshi in the issue has added a new dimension to the problem. IL&FS is the agency who is in charge of the construction work at the metro site.

Pan who is shocked at the development shared that it is surprising to know that such a big gang is involved in the robbery. He also said that it is now easier to connect the small thefts that took place on site. Pan also shared that they were threatened last night before the incident took place.

The Saturday arrest took place after police received tip off from the criminals it nabbed in connection with robbery at the same metro site. The arrested Bangladeshi nationals are Al-Amin Ahmed (22) and Shaheen Biswas (19) from Khulna and Satkhira, correspondingly.

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Monorail | MMRDA spends more then it generate RTI report reveal

Priyanka Sahu

28/08/2018

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has to pay a higher trip rate for operating the country’s monorail corridor. When next month its services resume, MMRDA will also have to bear with another huge expenditure so that they can provide security for the 8.9-km corridor.

The Right to Information Act, 2005, informs that MMRDA had to shell out more money on the corridor’s security than the revenue it rakes in from the service. In the first six months of the 2017-18 fiscal, when the monorail was operational, the revenue generated was a mere 62% of the expenditure borne by MMRDA for security.

A senior official said that between 2014 and 2016, the MSSC had deployed 331 security personnel at stations and the depot. The deployment was reduced to 243 personnel from July 2016. It was done to reduce the expenses incurred on security. We did not need so many people and we saved around Rs 2 crore.

The official also said that apart from MSSC, the MMRDA is also paying a private agency for maintaining a dog squad, which reportedly generates a bill of at least Rs 24 lakh per annum. “We have been paying the agency Rs 24 lakh since 2014 and are still paying them even when the services have been suspended.

Some other MMRDA official said that the monorail corridor is provided with heavy security as it is considered vulnerable to threats. The Intelligence Bureau had conducted a security audit of the entire corridor earlier this year.

The former general manager of Central Railway, Subodh Jain in his recent report has recommended that security personnel should be deployed in two shifts instead of the existing three to cut costs.

He further added that instead of having three eight-hour shifts, we can have two 12-hour shifts and pay the staff for overtime. Also, there is a need to cap the maximum staff, including security, at any station to 50 personnel.

MMRDA is finding it’s hard to cope because the expenses incurred for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the monorail have gradually increased since its launch. In 2014-2015 MMRDA was able to cover 38 percent of its expenses with its total income; it could only able to pay for 30 percent of its expenses in 2016-2017. The O&M payments increased to Rs 13.8 crore in 2016-17 from Rs 10.8 crore in 2014-15 whereas the revenue decreased to Rs 4.12 crore from Rs 4.18 crore in the corresponding period.

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Delhi Metro | Commuters no need to carry token or card, can pay fare by smart phone

Priyanka Sahu

28/08/2018

New Delhi: From the end of August the Commuters traveling to the metro airport line will not require a token or smart card. Smart mobile phones are only applicable for this not the feature phone. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in Airport line is going to start the facility for rent payment by scanning the QR code on all six stations of the Metro Line.

According to DMRC, this facility will be available by the end of August. Two AFC (Automatic Fare Collection) Gates and two Gates have been earmarked for the purpose of scanning the QR code at each station. After scanning the QR code, the trial will go for more than two months for the rent payment.

The airport line starts from New Delhi Metro station and goes to Dwarka Sector 21. There are total six stations viz. New Delhi, Shivaji Stadium, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi Arrow City, Airport and Dwarka Sector-21 Metro Stations. More than 50 thousand people travel daily on this. It connects the international airport directly. This is on the first line, where the entire section will get the facility to pay rent from the QR code.

Things must have to pay rent by scanning the QR codes are as follow:

First to download the app by the name of RDLR from play store.
After clicking on the DMRC, click on the QR ticket. After this, all six stations will be named on the mobile screen.
Choose the Source and destination point.
After selecting the station, the estimated rent will be seen on the mobile screen.
After this, payment mode which will link the debit or credit card information.
After saving the card, the rental money will be automatically deducted from the account.
After this, a ticket with a QR code will be generated, on the screen of the mobile.
That QR code needs to show at the newly opened AFC gate during entry and exit.

This facility is also applicable at Lalkila-Jama Masjid station:

DMRC 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.

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Ghaziabad Metro | Full trail runs started on the Red Line extension

Darshana Shukla

28/08/2018

Ghaziabad Metro — Metro Rail Towards Ghaziabad City

Delhi: The Red Line extension would soon become operational for commuters. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has already conducted a preliminary trial run on the 9.4 Km Garden-New Bus Stand metro corridor to check for any infringement on the track. On Monday DMRC has started full signaling trial on the route.

The first trail run was attended by District magistrate and vice-chairperson of GDA, Ritu Maheshwari. The trail run will now go on for 15 days.

DMRC during its trial run on Saturday to ensure appropriate contact with overhead electric poles. The Metro officials, conversely, said a full-fledged trial in which signaling system will also be checked, to begin Monday onward. On Tuesday DMRC as planned have started full signaling trails on the route.

The eight stations on this corridor are will have following stations — Shaheed Nagar, Raj Bagh, Rajendra Nagar, Shyam Park, Mohan Nagar, Arthala, River Hindon and New Bus Stand.

Red Line extension’s trail run began from Dilshad Garden metro station with six coaches, including the driver’s cabin on Monday evening. The metro train reached the New Bus Stand in Ghaziabad at late evening covering a distance of 9.41 km.

The trail runs will be conducted for around two months. After this, DMRC will ask for clearance from the commissioner of metro rail safety. Once the clearance is received, the project will be commissioned. As per news, by December the project is likely to be commissioned.

For Dilshad Garden-New Bus Stand metro line the MoU was signed between DMRC and GDA in the year 2014. The project was estimated to be wrapped up in three year’s time but got delayed by a year in the beginning.

The ballpark cost of the metro project comes to around Rs 2,210 crore. This cost will be jointly borne by the Centre, UP Housing Board, GDA, and UPSIDC. Though, due to the incapability of some agencies to shell out its share, the project got postponed.

The executive director (corporate communication), Anuj Dayal said that in the trail runs the interaction of the metro train with the physical infringements (civil structure) will be examined. This is to make sure that there is no physical obstruction throughout the movement of the train on the track. The complete signaling system will also go through meticulous testing.

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Bhopal Metro | Bhopal travallers wait for metro project to kick off

Darshana Shukla

28/08/2018

Bhopal: For last eight years the Bhopal Metro Rail project is biting the dust. The project largely remains on paper till date with general public waiting to board the metro.

With a population of over 20 lakh people, Bhopal fits the metro bill. But unfortunately, nothing concrete has been done to initiate work on metro rail. Bhopalis now wait for the authorities to work towards turning the proposed metro rail into reality.

Bhopal too wants to want to find its name in the metro map. The mass transit system just wants the city wants. Many feel it is the complete package that will make traveling easier and better.

The general public feels that if the metro project is launched in the city, it will lead to the creation of jobs directly as well as indirectly. It will also give the much-needed impetus to the real estate market.

Residents who live along the proposed metro route are waiting for metro rail to roll in. Currently, people use private means of transport to travel within Bhopal. This leads to traffic congestion and also increases pollution levels.

If metro rail comes, residents will have a reliable, economical and comfortable means of public transport.
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This will automatically reduce reliance on private vehicles, reduce traffic chaos and to some extent bring down pollution levels.

There are several developing pockets like Kolar that are not well connected to the main city. With metro coming in, the lot of developing areas will get connected to other parts of the city too.

The local public is now getting restless and wants the authorities to initiate some plan to implement the proposed metro project.

The government of Madhya Pradesh has already taken a call to implement Metro Rail Projects in the cities of Bhopal and Indore. M.P. Metro Rail Company is also constituted to implement the metro rail projects

As per the plan it is proposed to have a rapid transit light metro system for Bhopal Metro. There will be a total of 89 stations in 3 corridors covering a distance of 35 kilometers. The estimated cost of this project comes to around ₹80 billion (US$1.2 billion) approximately. The Bhopal metro will have a three-way system involving road, underground and bridges as part of the plan. The expected ridership is pegged at around 2, 20,000 riders per day.

Three corridors have been proposed by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

M.P.Nagar to Mandideep
Suruchi Nagar to BHEL (9km, 9 stations)
Bairagarh to Mandideep.

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Bharat Exhibitions, the 4th edition of National Summit on 100 Smart Cities

Priyanka Sahu

27/08/2018

New Delhi: On August 24, 2018, Bharat Exhibitions organized the 4th edition of National Summit on 100 Smart Cities India 2018 and the theme of this event was ‘Roadmap for Innovations, Sustainability, Surveillance and Development for smart Cities’. The main objective of the forum was to explore various aspects of infrastructure that needs to be planned, designed, built and operated in order to provide the ‘Smart’ attribute to a city development. There were also conversations about the key challenges that are being faced in the implementation of smart cities.

The Indian government has chalked out an ambitious $7.3 billion smart city mission for implementing smart solutions to improve infrastructure and service delivery across Indian cities. The underlying objective is to make sure that urbanization is not seen as a challenge but as an opportunity. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the roadmap for the smart city program, he had said that “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on available optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.”

Mr. Chetan Hebbalae, Senior Director of Product Management, Cambium Networks said, Traffic control, public Wi-Fi, increased public safety through video surveillance, and increased efficiency for municipal services are the cornerstones of any smart city initiative. Each of these requires reliable connectivity to reach control systems, access points, cameras and sensors in dense urban environments. Wireless broadband is a proven cost-effective solution that can be rapidly deployed to provide an affordable infrastructure to enable these applications.

Smt. Shubha N. Bhambani, PGM (C&M), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited said, “Smart city initiatives provide a catalyst for urban communities to become more resilient and sustainable. BSNL has a strong focus towards smart cities and is constantly developing new cost-efficient and indigenous smart solutions”.

While we keep talking about what will be the enablers for Smart City and the challenges we are facing, Mr. NSN Murty, Partner & Leader (Smart Cities), PwC brought the attention to the fact that it is actually the citizens that have voted for it and asked for it. “It is the first, world’s largest competitive exercise by means of which these cities have been selected”. He also touched upon how the to intend has now moved from the center to state. “It is always a central government initiative but now there is an increased interest at the city level”.

Shri Rajan S. Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India agreed that the intent was there and said, “To realize the vision of Smart Cities the government and the industry have to come together along with all of its subsidiaries to put forth a cohesive effort”.

While the intent is certainly there, the adoption may not be happening at a similar pace. To elaborate the same Mr. Vineet Kshirsagar, Director for Government Business, NetApp Marketing & Services Pvt. Ltd., spoke on how the digital transactions were still very low. He added, “The role is ICT is very critical in this sphere. When it comes to ICT, data is extremely critical. We are participating in many smart cities and going forward we know that there will be a lot of data that will be generated. So there is clearly a need to make a data fabric for smart cities”.

During the course of the conference, Mr. Sunil Joshi, President, Business Operations, GIFT City gave the delegates a glimpse of the kind of work that has been happening in this sphere in GIFT City. He mentioned, “GIFT provides a business platform and it is the first operational Smart City and IFSC, which is generating a large number of employment opportunities in the region”.

Taking the conversation to the next level, Shri Ashutosh Vasant, Director (POM), RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. said, talked about making smart cities sustainable. “Every business makes sense only till the time it is sustainable and every penny of the taxpayers’ money that is being spent should be accounted for.”

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Shri Vinit Goenka, Member of Governing Council and CRIS, Ministry of Railways and Member Taskforce IT, Ministry of Road, Transport & Highways and Shipping, Govt of India, said, “While answering why do we need smart cities, we should address the three Es. Whether it is Ethical? Are we being Environment-friendly and lastly if it is economical? It has to have some economic gain”.

Apart from sustainability, there were other challenges such as data protection, surveillance etc were also touched upon in the forum. National Summit on 100 Smart Cities India 2018 was sponsored by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, NetApp, CSG, Cambium Networks, Savitri Telecom Services, Secura, Amdocs Optima, AMNEX, Qognify, Height8 Technologies, LigoWave, and Sensors. The event was supported by CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, COAI, TAIPA and WiFi SPFI and the Knowledge Partner was Broadband India Forum.

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NITI Aayog to review standardisation progress of Metro rail systems

Darshana Shukla

27/08/2018

New Delhi: NITI Aayog to be engaged in reviewing progress of indigenisation and standardisation of metro rail systems. This decision has been taken by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

This step is taken to monitor the progress of various metro rail projects being implemented across the country. As per the ministry this initiative is taken in order to promote central government’s ‘Make-in India’ initiative while implementing Metro rail projects in various states.

An official while interacting with media shared that the ministry has standardised specifications of rolling stock, signalling and telecom systems for Metro rails projects undertaken in the country.

The officials while speaking with Economic Times said, “It has been decided that NITI Aayog’s Member (Science) will review the progress of standardisation and indigenisation of Metro rail systems by the Housing and Urban Affairs ministry to ensure time- bound progress”.

It was in June when Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his nod for formation of a committee to lay down standards for metro rail projects in India. This committee will be headed by none other than Metro Man Sreedharan.

The official also added that this will pay way for indigenisation of many metro rail projects currently being executed.

As per the data on hand with the Ministry of Housing and Urban, there are around 22 ongoing and under-construction Metro rail projects in Kolkata, Delhi, Noida-Greater Noida, Lucknow, Ahmedabad,Bangalore, Jaipur Mumbai, Chennai, Nagpur, Pune, Kochi, Hyderabad and Gurugram.

The ministry informed that Phase-IV of Delhi Metro is likely to conclude by December, 2020. On the other hand Phase-II of Bangalore Metro (72 km length) is expected to be wrapped by March 2021. In addition, proposed length of 23 km metro project in Lucknow is most likely to be finished by March 2019.

Even the Nagpur Metro project, which was approved in March this year, will be concluded in December 2019.

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Chennai Metro | By end of 2018, rail track laying to begin in North Chennai

Darshana Shukla

27/08/2018

Chennai: Construction of 9Km metro rail corridor is going on a breath neck speed in North Chennai. To keep the momentum of work going, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) is going ahead with preliminary work to lay ballastless tracks. These will be a requisite for the functioning of metro trains.

Looking at the progress of the work, the 9km Phase 1 extension line between Washermenpet and Wimco Nagar is likely to be constructed by March 2020.

As per senior metro official, they have already invited tenders for both track work and MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing). The official shared that they are optimistic on beginning track work by end of this year.
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In North Chennai the extension line comprises of — a 2km underground section connected by two stations and a 7km elevated stretch linked all the way through six stations.

When this line will be constructed, North Chennai commuters will seamlessly be able to commute to several localities in the city that are connected by metro rail network.

It was in 2016 that work on extending the North Chennai metro rail network began. By the end of 2017, construction of two tunnels the length of a 2km stretch from Washermenpet to Korukkupet was concluded. After this, work was initiated for building elevated corridors. This construction is under progress and going on a steady pace.

An elevated maintenance deport is also under construction at Wimco Nagar. CMRL has also invited tender off late to identify a company that will aid in supplying, installing and commissioning electrical and mechanical systems at the depot. Metro rail is optimistic on getting all these systems in place in about 18 months.

Work is going as per the schedule and looking at the progress rate, officials are hoping to wrap up work on time.

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