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High speed bullet train is for elite class says Metro man

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New Delhi: The civil engineer Elattuvapil Sreedharan, also known as the metro man of India stated that as compared to some advanced nations Indian railways is 20 years behind, he says that India needs a safe, clean, fast and modern railway systems. He also said that the high speed bullet trains that is soon to be launched in are for elite class. At present India needs a safe railway system.

Dr. E. Sreedharan, The Metroman
Dr. E. Sreedharan, The Metroman

“Bullet trains will cater only to the elite community. It is highly expensive and beyond the reach of ordinary people. What India needs is a modern, clean, safe and fast rail system.” said Sreedharan in an interview to Hindustan Times.

“Bullet trains will cater only to the elite community. It is highly expensive and beyond the reach of ordinary people. What India needs is a modern, clean, safe and fast rail system.” said Sreedharan in an interview to Hindustan Times.

The modern rapid transit system that has helped in easy transportation that is still a burden in the national capital. The soft-spoken Sreedharan has become identified after hearing the word.

Sreedharan is credited with completing many Delhi metro projects in budget and ahead of schedule.

Sreedharan a Padma Shree awardee in 1997 take over the helms of Delhi metro rail corporation. Before that, he was working with India’s first metro rail project in Kolkata and with the development of Konkan railway.

About the deaths and the railway accidents, he said  “Accident record has not improved. Many also die on tracks, at level-crossings, in suburban sections. Almost 20,000 lives are lost on tracks yearly. I feel Indian Railways is 20 years behind those of advanced nations.”

For all the metro rail systems across the country, the Sreedharan will now head a newly high-level constituted committee to lay down the primitive technical standard.

The Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal says that India’s ambitious bullet train project is likely to be completed by 2022, a year ahead of its estimated deadline, which is December 2023. “The bullet train project is on track. In this country, every project has certain difficulties and issues that have to be addressed as you progress in the project. We are working for the acquisition of land in Maharashtra and Gujarat. There are some concerns with local people and a dialogue is going on. I am very confident very soon we will and I am very confident that very soon we will resolve it. We are trying our best to complete the work by 2022 before its deadline, 2023.”

The Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal says that India’s ambitious bullet train project is likely to be completed by 2022, a year ahead of its estimated deadline, which is December 2023. “The bullet train project is on track. In this country, every project has certain difficulties and issues that have to be addressed as you progress in the project. We are working for the acquisition of land in Maharashtra and Gujarat. There are some concerns with local people and a dialogue is going on. I am very confident very soon we will and I am very confident that very soon we will resolve it. We are trying our best to complete the work by 2022 before its deadline, 2023.”

“The Indian Railways is working day and night to complete the much-awaited Bullet train project by 2022,”

The Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train and the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail projects were inspected on 6th May by Japan’s parliamentary Vice-Minister, Alcimoto Masatoshi.

The bullet train which will be between Ahmedabad and Mumbai will have a 21 km undersea tunnel and the total length will be 508 km.

 

 

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Delhi Metro | DMRC Pink line stretch 8.1 Km to connect INA metro hub

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Priyanka Sahu
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Delhi Metro Pink Line Train

New Delhi:  Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has brought good news for commuters to INA Sarojni Nagar, South Extension and Lajpat Nagar. Metro services of pink line are all set to start as earlier. Total length of Pink Line was planned to be opened in different stages its total length was kept 58.59 Km which include 39.479 Km elevated and 19.117 Km underground. There is total 38 number of station under which 26 stations are elevated and 12 are underground. Line was planned to be by September 2018 (except Trilokpuri to Mayur Vihar pkt-1 section because of land issue in Trilokpuri). 20.6 Km section of  Majlis Park to Durgapuri South Campus was opened for public on14 March. And  8.1 Km section between Durgabai Deshmuk South Campus to Lajpat Nagar likely to open as earlier, and other section  Lajpat Nagar –Mayur Vihar PKT-1 and Trilokpuri to Shiv Vihar is expected to be completed by July 2018, September 2018, and August 2018 respectively.

DMRC Spokesperson said, “The trial runs between Durgabhai Deshmukh South Campus and Lajpat Nagar are going on and the section is likely to be opened in July.”

He further stated that, “The necessary documentation for the inspection by Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) is being completed and some other mandatory prior approvals are being taken right now.”

He also said that, “The trial runs are in progress between Shiv Vihar and I P Extension, and will be extended upto Trilokpuri very shortly. This section is likely to be completed by August,” and “Section between Lajpat Nagar and Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 is expected to be completed by September.”

Pink Line of Delhi Metro has not only extended the network of Delhi Metro but has also facilitated the commuters in large scale. Pink Line is connected with almost all the Line of Delhi Metro which has save the time of commuters.
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Now it will be very easy for commuters to interchange line as Pink Line interconnects almost all the line of Deli Metro. It is connects almost all the line of Metro at Azadpur for Yellow Line, Netaji Subhas Place for  Red Line, Punjabi Bagh West for Green Line, Rajouri Garden for Blue Line, Lajpat Nagar for Violet Line, Mayur Vihar-1 for blue line and INA for Yellow Line.

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Mumbai Metro | MMRC asked to safeguards against noise pollution

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Mumbai: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has been asked by Bombay High Court what measures have they taken to safeguard to ensure that the citizens’ constitutional right to a pollution-free environment is protected. This protection also includes safeguarding from noise pollution as well.

MMRC which is facing flake for its construction work going on for Mumbai metro line 3, will have to now furnish answers. Bombay HC has sought answers from MMRC over their initiative to safeguard citizen’s right during its construction work.

MMRCL had filed an application seeking modification to earlier order by the HC that has put a stay on work going on at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai in the night. A division bench of Justices AS Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing the application filed by MMRCL.

In its application, the MMRCL has pointed out that it had to carry out tunnel boring and excavation work cannot be stopped once it is started.

Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhkoni, representing MMRCL communicated that the work will be carried out for 18 months. He added that the excavation work will not lead to generating lot of noise. The noise would only be of trucks that would be transporting excavated soil, added Kumbhkoni.

Kumbhkoni added that the Environment Protection Act and the Noise Pollution Rules did are not relevant to the metro rail project.
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The court, however, said whether they carry out work during the day or night, the MMRCL should abide by the Noise Pollution Rules.

Justice Oka quoting Article 21 of the Constitution of India that states that a person a person has the right to a pollution-free environment, and that includes noise pollution. What measures have MMRCL taken to ensure citizen’s right are protected.

Senior counsel Ranjit Kumar, representing Larsen and Toubro, who are the contractors of the project, communicated to the court that the metro work would not make additional noise than current levels in Cuffe Parade.

The 33-kilometre underground Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro line 3 project, it will be connecting Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai to the SEEPZ and the international airport in the city’s Andheri suburb.

The court said it would continue hearing the matter on Monday.

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Kochi Metro | KMRL seeks land on Hospital Road

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Kochi: Kochi metro is the first metro in the country which connects roads, rails and waterway facilities and every Kochi metro station is designed on a specific theme Kerala culture, diversity and geography. It has elevated route spanning 25 km from Aluva to Petta 23 stations.

Kochi Metro Rail Ltd are still waiting for the complete forming of the walkway. The whole idea of making a walkway is to connect the two-metro station Ernakulam Boat Jetty and Maharaja college. The whole project is on the shoulder of the Metro Rail Authority. Due to incomplete construction people are facing lots of problem as there is no proper space for the pedestrian.

The main reason for the delay of the construction is the land as it is belonging to various government department. The project is said to done within the eight months but it is only 50% of the work has been done. The KMRL official stated that as soon they get the land they will get back to complete the whole construction work so that people would not face more trouble.

The KMRL official stated that as soon they get the land they will get back to complete the whole construction work so that people would not face more trouble.

There should be proper spaces for parking vehicles as the improper manner of parking vehicles over the footpath led to problem of walking for the pedestrian. There should be proper checking of illegal parking of the vehicles over the roads and checked by the city police. This would minimize the problem of locals. The Metro agency will plan to design a walkway with a proper parking system and soon they start construction where the land is available. They have taken the matter of widening footpath and modern bus shelter along the stretch

Through this KMRL and CSML are promoting the non-motorized method of transportation “It will encourage people to walk from the Metro station to the boat jetty,” said the official.

The project when accomplished help the people and residents of hospital road area.

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Chennai Metro | CMRL completes over 50K trips through bicycle sharing service

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Bicycle sharing scheme available for Chennai Metro commuters
Bicycle sharing scheme available for Chennai Metro commuters (Representative Image)

CHENNAI: For the benefits of the passengers and to promote a healthier and sustainable mode of transport, the CMRL metro station has introduced a bicycle sharing scheme of providing last mile connectivity to metro rail stations several bicycle scheme has been introduced.

At 16 different stations, metro rail provides other facilities for last mile connectivity other than bicycle which are feeder buses, buggy services at the airport and vadapalani metro stations, tie-ups with cabs and walkalator linking the airport with metro stations.

Bicycle sharing data
Chennai Metro Bicycle sharing data (Source: The Hindu)

12 metro stations Nehru Park, Kilpauk, Pachaiyappa’s College, Shenoy Nagar, Anna Nagar Tower, Thirumangalam, Koyambedu, Ashok Nagar, Ekkattuthangal, Alandur, St. Thomas Mount, Little Mount have this three bicycle scheme namely CMRL bicycle from 17 January PEDL bicycle scheme by Athi’s Car from October 2017 started a GPS enable bicycle scheme at 3 stations namely Thirumangalam, Anna Nagar Tower, Anna Nagar East. This scheme is liked by the Chennai public and all these are provided at various elevated and underground metro stations.

Since the CMRL have introduced this CMRL bicycle scheme a total of 50,000 number of trips have been availed from metro station, 14,500 number of trips have been availed from Athi’s cycles scheme and 36,450 number of trips availed through PEDL bicycle.
For the benefits of the passenger’s several last mile connectivity facility and scheme have also been introduced:-
• For the connectivity to several routes from metro station feeder service (small busses) have been introduced.
• For last mile connectivity at 16 metro stations, the CMRL entered an agreement with M/S OLA & UBER cabs.
• Airport and vadapalani have the buggy services.
• Airport metro stations and Chennai airport is connected through walkalator.

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Hyderabad Metro | Asian Development Bank agree to fund metro projects

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Hyderabad: Asian Development Bank (ADB) is all set to finance the Hyderabad Metro as well as many infrastructure projects going on in the city. The ADD team has already started going around the city and is meeting officials to take things ahead.

ADB has started preparing grounds for taking things ahead. Their officials are holding meetings to take the funding proposal ahead. A team of ADB has already visited the city.

The team of ADB has also met SK Joshi, Chief Secretary as well as principal secretary, MAUD, Arvind Kumar. During the meeting the officials discussed on how financial assistance can be extended to fund various infrastructure projects in Hyderabad including Hyderabad Metro.

ADB gave a list of projects their bank was willing to fund. These include the second phase of Hyderabad Metro Rail, the Strategic Road Development Programme to construct new flyovers, Musi beautification and multi-grade separators.

The finding has been made possible as earlier GHMC Mayor Bonthu has submitted proposal to ADB. The proposal was given to get financial assistance for several infrastructure projects going on in the city. Bonthu has given the proposal during his Delhi trip earlier.

ADB executive director, Kshatrapati Shivaji as well as Rajeev Singh, senior country specialist, had discussed the infrastructure projects being planned in the city and the funds necessary to implement these projects.

Principal Secretary, MAUD, Arvind Kumar is optimistic about the development. He is happy with preliminary talks and stated that the discussions were encouraging.
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The government will soon be approaching ADB with detailed project reports of diverse infrastructure projects to get funding.

With financial backing, Hyderabad Metro’s second phase work will get major boost. Work would pick momentum and metro project will be able to met its deadline. Other infrastructure projects will also begin and end on time with ADB showing interest in funding them.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC Employees postponed strike after the High Court decision

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Delhi Metro Employees on Hunger Strike, gathered at Yamuna Bank Station Platform
Delhi Metro Employees on Hunger Strike, gathered at Yamuna Bank Station Platform

New Delhi: It is good news for Delhi metro commuters that the big trouble is now hold for some days. After the interference of Delhi High Court, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Employees Union (DMRCEU) and the Staff Council have postponed their strike (total shutdown plan) for later but they are on partial strike which was started from 19 June. On 29 June High Court has given a huge relief to the Delhi-NCR residents, have stop from thousands of employees of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) who were on strike. Employees had scheduled to go on strike at midnight after talks were negotiated by both sides. After the talks between DMRC and employees failed on Friday, about 9,000 non-executive employees were threatening to go on strike from Saturday, due to the strike, Metro services might have shut down and millions of people might faced inconvenience.

Secretary Staff Council has also written a letter to Chief Minister Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, employees have asked his cooperation in an ongoing strike and waiting for the response. And he has instructed to another ministry to take a genuine decision in this regard.

The Delhi High Court questioned to provide justification for the strike. Justice Vipin Sanghi passed an interim order after a quick hearing and said that the proposed action of the first metro staff did not seem right or legal. DMRC provides services to about 2.5 million passengers per day. For this, he has not been given adequate notice and the compromise process is still going on.

On the other hand, in view of the strike, DMRC filed an urgent petition, which was placed before the Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal for hearing. He sent it to Justice Sanghi for hearing. Justice Sanghi said in his 5-page order, “I am willing to provide interim relief according to the demand of the application. Accordingly, the defendants (employees) are prevented from going on strike on June 30 or till further order in the case. Court to adjourn on next hearing on July 6

Earlier, non-executive employees of the Metro had threatened to go on strike from June 30 because demands like salary increases were not fulfilled by DMRC.

About 12,000 people are employed in DMRC, which has about 9 thousand non-executive employees. Some non-executive employees of went on strike by June 19, 2018, at some metro stations including Yamuna Bank and Shahdara in support of their eight point demand

Delhi’s Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has directed the Managing Director of DMRC that the demands of non-executive employees should be resolved immediately.

Gehlot said in a letter to the Managing Director, “The dispute should be resolved as soon as possible so that the services of the Metro must not interrupt. If Metro services are interrupted, then millions of passengers will have to face problems.”

All these employees play an important role in running the Delhi Metro network. Without Employees cooperation it would not be easy to extend DMRC network in such vast network. So its responsibility of DMRC to resolve on going disputes.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC Employees all sets to shutdown metro services from tomorrow

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Delhi Metro Employees gathered at Yamuna Bank metro Station platform
Delhi Metro Employees gathered at Yamuna Bank metro Station platform

New Delhi: After the today’s meeting on 9.30 at Metro Bhawan Office an appeal has been given to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employees by the DMRC management. This has increased the aggressiveness among the employees. Now after the employees are not ready to stop the strike, hunger strike continues and they consider DMRC decision as an unsatisfactory decision for them. This whole dispute will badly affect the commuters if the strike continues.

“We will wait for tomorrow morning proceedings report if they do not fulfil our demands. We will stop Metro services on 30 June”, stated by DMRC Employees Union and the Staff Council jointly in a video statement on 28 June.

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Appeal to DMRC employees -001

A section of the staff, in collusion with an unrecognized Union, have launched an agitation with effect from 20/06/2018 and threatened shut down /lockout/tool down, i.e. 30/06/2018, in order to press for their unreasonable demands and the employees are being unduly provoked into an uncalled for, agitation.

As you are all aware, DMRC has an elected Staff Council, which has been satisfactorily functioning for years and employees issues are taken up and discussed through the platform of the staff council. As regards the Agreement of 23/07/2017, with regard to graduation and merger of pay scales, the same has been implemented in toto and no anomaly has arisen thereof, since no junior employee.

The repeated raising of unreasonable demands is the real reason for disparity amongst the staff. The 3rd pay revision has been delayed badly, for which led to the stoppage of the train is getting affected. The recent actions of some of the employees, which led to the stoppage of train services, has given DMRC a very bad name and the entire DMRC is under criticism from various quarters, including the government and the public.

A section of the staff, in collusion with an unrecognized Union, have launched an agitation with effect from 20/06/2018 and threatened shut down /lockout/tool down, i.e. 30/06/2018, in order to press for their unreasonable demands and the employees are being unduly provoked into an uncalled for, agitation.

As you are all aware, DMRC has an elected Staff Council, which has been satisfactorily functioning for years and employees issues are taken up and discussed through the platform of the staff council. As regards the Agreement of 23/07/2017, with regard to graduation and merger of pay scales, the same has been implemented in toto and no anomaly has arisen thereof, since no junior employee.

The repeated raising of unreasonable demands is the real reason for disparity amongst the staff. The 3rd pay revision has been delayed badly, for which led to the stoppage of the train is getting affected. The recent actions of some of the employees, which led to the stoppage of train services, has given DMRC a very bad name and the entire DMRC is under criticism from various quarters, including the government and the public.

The employees of DMRC have a responsibility to ensure smooth functioning of train services and to avoid any hardship to the travelling public. It may be mentioned that any action which is violative of the conduct rules of DMRC, cannot be accepted and shall be taken up suitably. The management reiterates its commitment to employees welfare and betterment, including, implementation of the revised pay scales (3rd Pay Revision), mention in the appeal letter.

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On the other hand, DMRC has given an official order to all the employees of DMRC for attendance in work –reporting for duty and cancellation in left. Any employees not reporting for duty shall be treated as ‘ABSENT FROM DUTY, and the principle of ‘NO WORK, NO PAY’, shall be applicable. This shall be in addition to any other action, including, ‘BREAK IN SERVICES’ and/or, action under the relevant rules.

On the other hand, DMRC has given an official order to all the employees of DMRC for attendance in work –reporting for duty and cancellation in left. Any employees not reporting for duty shall be treated as ‘ABSENT FROM DUTY, and the principle of ‘NO WORK, NO PAY’, shall be applicable. This shall be in addition to any other action, including, ‘BREAK IN SERVICES’ and/or, action under the relevant rules.

 

 

DMRC Employees Union, Letter to Chief Minister
DMRC Employees Union,
Letter to Chief Minister

 

Secretary Staff Council has also written a letter to Chief Minister Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, employees have asked his cooperation in an ongoing strike and waiting for the response. And he has instructed to another ministry to take a genuine decision in this regard.

Around 1500 employees have gathered at Yamuna Bank Metro station and planning to shut down the Metro services if further action is not taken as earliest. They have also mentioned that our intention is not trouble commuters DMRC has not left any other option for us. we already were given 15 days notice to DMRC that if favoured action is not taken we will complete shutdown Metro services on 30 June.

Metro Rail News team has tried to connect with DMRC Spokesperson Anuj Dayal to know their further steps, but the call has been denied at all times.

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Chennai Metro | CMRL bags SKOCH award for Smart Governance

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Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail has been lauded for its effort to develop mass transit system which is at par with international standards. The Chennai Metro Rail has been awarded the SKOCH Order of Merit for the metro project it has developed in the city.

SKOCH – Smart Governance Award – is an initiative to distinguish top performing government organisation as well as those working with government agencies and following best practices and models of governance.

CMRL bags SKOCH Award for Good Governance
Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) bags SKOCH Award for Good Governance (Photo: CMRL)

The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) had presented before a board of experts the different facilities and features it has built in the 45km phase-1 project that is on the verge of conclusion.


During the presentation the officials of CMRL had showed various technologies it employed to operate the services. This also included the energy saving system as well as several green initiatives it has taken to turn metro as sustainable mode of transport.

Officials said the award was also to appreciate  CMRL’s ability to become accustomed to future challenges and its efforts in transforming urban infrastructure through execution of its ambitious 107.55km phase-2 project.

As per the press release by CMRL, “Chennai Metro Rail project is conferred with SKOCH Order of Merit Gold.

The Chennai Metro Rail has added another feather to its cap with SKOCH Group conferring the SKOCH Order of Merit recognizing the organization’s vision and governance for creating world-class passenger amenities as part of the Chennai’s Metro Railway Phase I network.

CMRL presented before the expert jury panel on the unique features, energy saving technologies adopted, green initiatives and speedy decision implemented through efficient governance in the Phase I of CMRL Project.

This SKOCH Order of Merit Gold recognizes CMRL initiatives and governance practices that have ability to adapt to future challenges and transform the urban infrastructure as part of upcoming Phase II.”

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India hosts the Annual Summit of AIIB after China, South Korea

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PM Modi at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Second Annual Summit
PM Modi at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Second Annual Summit (Photo: AIIB)

New Delhi: It is very auspicious achievement made by India  that it has secured 3rd rank after two developed countries viz. China and South Korea to host the series of the annual summit of Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). According to information received from AIIB press release, they have planned to invest a sum of total USD100 crore in the National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF), a public-private initiative to finance infrastructure activities in India and investment of another USD100 million is under consideration. And the total investment of USD100 crore is already announced by the AIIB.

“I believe that India and AIIB are both strongly committed to making economic growth more inclusive and sustainable. In India, we are applying novel Public Private Partnership models, Infrastructure Debt Funds, and Infrastructure Investment Trusts to fund infrastructure”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India became 3rd country to host the AIIB annual submit
India became 3rd country to host the AIIB annual submit

Three years ago, India also decided to become 57 founding member countries of the AIIB. India’s equity stake in the bank is 8.7% (as against China’s 31%). Gradually, the list of country-members increased to 86. Now with Lebanon being included as a member last week after that 87 country has become members of AIIB.

The main reason behind the China and India to set up this bank was to create another lending body that would cater to the interests of Asian countries (though the bank does lend to non-Asian countries). In many ways, it has been leading itself along the lines of the World Bank in which the US has a 26% equity stake in the capital, but lending by the bank is quite independent for that country. However, AIIB has some uniqueness which is not found in any other International bank like World Bank and the International Monetary Fund where loans are advanced only to countries which are members of the IMF, while the AIIB is willing to lend to anyone – member or otherwise.

AIIB has given fund for six projects (mentioned below) aggregating USD 1.2 billion. But its requirement for funds is immense. India has also requested to the AIIB to help in financing several other projects. Most of them are for Andhra Pradesh:

  • Andhra Pradesh Rural Roads project
  • Andhra Pradesh Urban Water Supply & Septage Management Project
  • Amaravati Sustainable Capital City

Projects also include from another state

  • Mumbai Metro Line 4 Project
  • West Bengal Major Irrigation & Flood Management Project

On 24 June 2018, an approval has been given to enhance by another $100 million shortly. Recently its chief executive, Sujoy Bose, has also planned to launch a $2 billion long-term fund for financing various mega projects.

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