Delhi Metro | DMRC to introduce 10 trip travel card for airport express line riders

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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is introducing a new product i.e, a 10 Trip (10-T) travel card facility for its commuters of the Airport Express Line from 1st October 2016. This is aimed at facilitating those commuters who would like to avail limited travel trips. Such passengers can avail a maximum of 10 trips using this card to travel on the Airport Express Line.
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The validity of the 10 Trip Card will be for 15 days and the facility will be applicable on trial for three months. This facility will be economical and also help save time for the occasional commuters of the Airport Express Line.

This card is in addition to the already available 30 trips and 45 trips travel card on the Express Line and used mostly by its regular commuters. Both these trip cards come with a validity of 30 days.

The Trip Cards of Airport Express Line are economical for commuters as they provide cheaper travel in the range of 10% to 55% depending on the number of stations travelled vis a vis those who use single journey token for their travel. For example, a token for a trip from New Delhi to Shivaji Stadium would cost a passenger Rs. 20/- whereas the same trip performed by a passenger having a 45 trip card would cost only (approx.) Rs. 9/-, Rs. 12/- with 30 trip card and Rs. 15 with 10 trip card.

This is one of the many measures that the Delhi Metro has taken in recent times to facilitate its passengers on the Airport Express Line. Recently, check in facility was introduced at both New Delhi and Shivaji Stadium Metro station for Air India and Jet Airways bound passengers. Ticket counters were also opened by Air India at these two stations. The frequency of the trains on this line was also increased to 10 minutes throughout the peak hours i.e. 08:00 AM to 08:00 PM.

Source//DMRC Press Release

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Kolkata Metro | Metro railway network to increase 14kms by 2018

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30/09/2016

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Kolkata: The Metro rail network in the city will be increased by another 14 km in the next 18 months, an official said.

General Manager of Metro Railway, Kolkata M C Chauhan, said they have planned to augment the network by 14 km within the next one-and-a-half years and the probable sections will be Kavi Subhash (New Garia) station to Hemendra Mukherjee (Ruby Hospital) station stretch over a track of 5.3 km. The new routes will also include Noapara to Dakshineswar (4 km) and Noapara to Jessore Road (5 km).

“In Baranagar municipality area there are around 400 encroachments, out of which 41 have been shifted. The municipality has promised to vacate the land by September 30,” Chauhan said.

Similarly, in Kamarhati municipality area there are around 200 settlements which need to shifted for the work to begin, he said. Besides this, the first phase of the East West Metro Corridor project from Sector five in Salt Lake to Sealdah (9.4 km) is planned to be commissioned by June 2018.

By April 2017, two rakes will be received from the Integral Coach Factory, the Metro official said adding they are trying to finalise the order for another 10 rakes. The Metro Railway has also been trying to conserve energy and therefore, have installed 500 KWP solar plants on the roof of Kavi Subhash and Tollygunj stations, which have been declared green stations.

To counter heavy rush of passengers during the Durga Puja festival next week, Chauhan said they will increase the services by around 11 per cent compared to last year.

Altogether, there will be 1,624 services during the festival days.

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Metro Rail Projects | 324 Km of metro rail operational in India now

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21/09/2016

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Chennai: With the opening of the near nine-kilometer metro lane in Chennai, around 324 kilometres of metro rail will be operational in the country in the cities of Delhi and NCR, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Mumbai, said Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, M Venkaiah Naidu.

During the inauguration of the 8.61-kilometer metro line from Little Mount to Airport today, he said that Chennai has around 19 kilometres of metro operational out of the total 45 kilometres in Phase 1 of the Chennai Metro Rail Project. The Government of India has so far released about Rs 10,000 crore for the Chennai Metro Phase-1 project.

With this, around 324 km of metro rail is operational in the country. Around 520 km is currently under construction in various cities including Delhi and NCR, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Mumbai, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Lucknow and another around 553 km is under consideration.

One four-car metro rake per trip is expected to remove 16 buses/300 cars/600 two wheelers from road. This not only reduces traffic congestion but also reduces pollution. The ridership at the completion of the Phase I of the Chennai Metro Rail Project is expected to be 775,000 per day, he added.

An elevated section of 10.15 kilometer from Koyambedu to Alandur of Phase-1 was inaugurated in June 2015.

Speaking about the smart city projects, the minister said that Tamil Nadu has the highest number of smart cities approved, with 12 in the list. Chennai and Coimbatore, selected in the first round, would see a total investment of around Rs 1,366 crore and Rs 1,570 crore. In the second round of announcement, Madurai, Salem, Vellore and Thanjavur were selected.

Total of 49 projects have been identified by Chennai, while Coimbatore has identified four projects and bidding is underway.

Special Purpose Vehicles has been established in Coimbatore and Chennai and Rs 200 crore as central government grant out of Rs 500 crore sanctioned has been released to these cities, he added.

So far, the centre has approved investments to Tamil Nadu, including Rs 2936 crore for Smart City Mission, Rs 7,082 crore for Atal Mission for Rejuvenation & Urban Transformation (Amrut) mission, Rs 45 crore for Hriday, the heritage city development and Rs 1,796 crore for housing mission, setting the urban renaissance in Tamil Nadu in motion, he added.

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Chennai Metro | CM Jayalalithaa inaugurated second stretch of metro rail project

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21/09/2016

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Chennai: The metro rail corridor between Chennai Airport Station and Little Mount Station was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in Chennai on Wednesday. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provided loan for the project. “The opening of this newly constructed stretch of Chennai Metro will mitigate traffic congestion and air pollution and enhance ease of travel, so that local economic growth and quality of life can be significantly improved,” JICA India, Chief Representative, Takema Sakamoto said.

The first loan agreement for the Chennai Metro Rail project was signed in November 2008 with amount of 21,751 million Japanese Yen, a statement from JICA said.
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In March 2016, JICA signed for the fourth loan agreement comprising 19,981 million Japanese Yen. Overall, JICA has extended concessional loans of 1,049,614 million Japanese Yen for development of metro systems in Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the statement added.

Others present on the occasion were Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Minister of State for Shipping and Roadways Pon Radhakrishnan.

Source//DNA.

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Allahabad Metro | ADA completes survey of first phase of metro rail project in city

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20/09/2016

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Allahabad: The first survey of the first phase of of 35km route of the Metro project was completed and a corpus of Rs 3.5 crore was allocated for the purpose.

Divisional Commissioner Rajan Shukla on Saturday held a meeting with Allahabad Development Authority (ADA) and police department officials to review the progress made on the project.
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He also stressed on the beautification work at various crossings.

In an attempt to involve locals with the Metro project, district administration also announced a logo contest for the Metro rail. Under the contest participants have to draw a logo for the project. The district administration would give away prizes to the winners.

The Metro rail service is expected to provide a rapid transit system to citizens across the district and help lakhs of pilgrims travel from various parts of the city to the holy Sangam during Magh Mela, Ardh Kumbh and Mahakumbh. The project would be caried out on the lines of Kanpur Metro project.

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Noida Metro | NMRC board approves station branding in Gr. Noida Metro corridor

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20/09/2016

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Noida: Metro stations along the 29-km Noida-Greater Noida route will soon be identified with names of companies and their brands. Officials of the Noida Metro Rail Company (NMRC) said that a policy for the auctioning rights to name the stations was finalized on Monday in a board meeting, convened by NMRC managing director, Santosh Yadav.

According to NMRC officials, the prerequisites for the scheme have been worked out and would be launched once the 21 stations along the corridor are handed over to NMRC by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). “The rights will be auctioned through bidding process for a period of five years, which will be extensible. Bids will be evaluated by a high-level evaluation committee,” said Yadav. “Station branding is successful internationally and we will adopt it as soon as the Metro stations are handed over to us,” he said. Yadav further said that non-fare revenue is crucial for the success of mass transit systems with fares kept deliberately cheap under populist pressure. “This scheme will help us generate revenue,” he said.

The selected licensee will have exclusive semi-naming rights at the selected Metro station area and at the concourse level. The licensee will suffix their brand name with the name of the station. In addition, the licensee shall also be granted advertisement rights at the station. The company will get an advertisement space of 500 sqm at the station to advertise its brand besides several selected activities for branding. The colour scheme within the station will also be determined by the company to go with its brands.

The Board also finalized a policy for providing connectivity through skywalks and foot over bridges at Metro stations. “Property owners who want to obtain direct connectivity to stations via FOBs and skywalks will have to pay a one-time amount upfront,” explained P D Upadhyay, general manager (finance), NMRC. “The design for these advertisements will be approved by a proposal evaluation committee,” he said.
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A third policy approved on Monday included procurement of goods and services by NMRC. “Procurement, outsourcing, bidding norms, consultant appointment, etc will be governed by this policy,” said Yadav.

Speaking on the proposed fare slab for the city bus service between Noida and Greater Noida, the Board said that the fares be further evaluated. “The fare structure of local conveyance along the proposed bus routes needs to be studied in detail to evaluate if we can further reduce costs of commuting,” said Yadav. “We will rework the costs and finalize the fares within a week,” he added.

Officials further told TOI that a website for Noida’s Metro Company was also under process. It will be governed by gov.in and is being developed by UPESCO, officials said.

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Selfie Contest | Metro Rail News begans ‘Selfie in Metro’ Contest

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18/09/2016

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New Delhi: The Metro Rail News team under the ownership of Symbroj Media Pvt. Ltd. is organising a Selfie Contest with the title “Selfie in Metro” to encourage and create a gift winning opportunities to Metro Rail Guys, commuters and metro lovers. The contest will run from 20 September 2016 to 20 October 2016.

The rules & regulations of the contest are as under:-

1. Organiser & Eligibility: “Selfie with Metro Contest” is organised by Metro Rail News team under Symbroj Media Pvt. Ltd. This Contest are open to anyone who is eighteen (18) years or older at the time of entry.

2. Duration: This Contest will run from 20 September 2016 to 20 October 2016. The Organiser reserves the right to amend the Contest Period at any time. All entries received outside the Contest Period will be disqualified.

3. Submission of Entries & Qualifying Criteria:
a) Participants must first be registered as a member of the www.facebook.com website. Please refer to the Website’s privacy policy and the terms and conditions on the Website, which will bind the members and users of the Website.

b) Participants must then log on to the Metro Rail News Facebook Page at
www.facebook.com/metrorailnewsonline and “Like” the page to become a fan. Participants are advised to read through and understand the Privacy Policy and the relevant terms and conditions before deciding to become a fan of Metro Rail News Facebook Page.

c) Participants may then submit a selfie of themselves. The photo must be submitted via a wall post comment that ends with #MetroRailNews the wall post.

d) All approved/qualified entries submitted for this Contest, upon moderation by the Organiser, will be saved into a Photo Album on the Metro Rail News Facebook Page during the Contest Period.

e) Winners will be selected by a panel of judges based on creativity, originality and relevancy of the photos submitted to the Contest theme.

f) All entries submitted must fulfill the following requirements:-

(i) Participants agree to abide by the Contest Rules & Regulations.
(ii) The participants is hereby reminded not to irresponsibly or unnecessarily, intentionally or unintentionally, manipulate, exploit or harm the metro authority for the purposes of this contest, and shall take full responsibility of any undesired incidents thereof. In any event, the Organiser reserves the absolute right to disqualify any entries viewed or observed to contain any such elements.
(iii) In the event of duplicate entries from the same participant, the submitted entry which is most recent will be treated as a valid entry. In the event of duplicate submissions from different participants, the first submitted entry will be treated as a valid entry based on the time of receipt.
(iv) In order to participate in this Contest, each entry submitted must complete all the steps in the Contest. Any incomplete entries will be automatically disqualified.
(v) Only the winners will be notified via Facebook message/Facebook wall post. The Organiser will not be held responsible should there be any error, delay or defect in notification via the Facebook messages and/or Facebook wall post to the participants of the winners.

4. Prizes Redemption:
a) The selected winners will be announced via a wall post on the Metro Rail News Facebook Page. Winners will also receive either a private message or a tag on the wall post posted on the Metro rail News by the Organiser. Selected winners are required to respond to the Organiser based on the instruction provided within Seven days from date of notification, failing which, the next best entry will be selected as the winner. The Organiser shall not be held liable in the event the winner(s) cannot be contacted for whatever reasons after at least three attempts by the Organiser or its agents to contact the winners. All prizes must be claimed within one month from the date of notification. All unclaimed prizes will be forfeited. The Organiser will not be held liable in the event of non-receipt or delayed delivery of the postal notification to the winner[s].

b) The selected winners are required to complete the verification process by sending an email to metrorailnews@gmail.com containing their Winner number, E-mail Address, Mobile Number, Residential (Postal) Address, and agree to the Contest Rules & Regulations, and providing consent pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Notice.

c) Participants are only entitled to win one prize throughout the entire Contest period.

d) The Organiser shall reserve the right at its absolute discretion to substitute any of the prizes with that of similar value, at any time without prior notice. The values of the prizes are correct at the time of printing. All prizes are given on an “as is” basis and are not exchangeable for cash, credit, other items or voucher, in part or in full.

e) All winners must abide by the terms and conditions of the parties arranging and/or providing for the prizes and the terms and conditions attached to the prizes, if any.

5. Rights of the Organiser:
a) By submitting your entries for this Contest, all participants agree and acknowledge that all intellectual property rights shall belong to the Organiser. The Organiser shall have the exclusive right to use, edit, modify and publish the entry submitted by all the participants, publish the names of the participants, in any way it deems fit for any advertising, trade, promotional purpose and for any other reason whatsoever, without any further notice to the participants and the participants shall not claim ownership or any payment or compensation on the materials. For the avoidance of doubt, the submissions will not be edited for judging purposes. The Organiser will be using participants’ submission photos to be featured in Metro Rail News Facebook wall posts.

b) The Organiser reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel this Contest in the event that it becomes not capable of running as planned, technically interfered or corrupted, including but not limited to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Organiser, despite the best efforts of the Organiser.

c) The Organiser reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any participant that is found or suspected of tampering with the Contest submission process, the operation of this Contest. The Organiser reserves the right to terminate the submission of any Facebook user of any person who it reasonably suspects has violated or infringed any of the segeneral terms and conditions and the Organiser reserves the right to pursue legal action against any individual it believes has undertaken fraudulent activities or other activities harmful to this online Contest.

6. Other Terms & Conditions
a) All entries submitted must be original and shall not breach any intellectual property rights belonging to any party. The participants shall not pose, distribute, reproduce or submit in any way whatsoever, any materials containing any other party’s intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyrights, or other proprietary information owned by another party without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such intellectual property rights or proprietary information. If you believe that your work has been copied and posted in a way that constitutes an intellectual property infringement, please contact the Organiser via e-mail at metrorailnews@gmail.com

b) The Organiser, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to modify this Rules & Regulations without any prior notice, if required for the smooth running of the Contest.

c) This Rules & Regulations are prepared in English only.

d) The Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence thereon will be entertained.

e) By participating in this Contest, participants agree to be boundby this Contest Rules & Regulations, and the decisions of the Organiser.

– Metro Rail News Team

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Kerala Light Metro | Dr. Sreedharan meets KRTL chief to chart out Light Metro path

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18/09/2016

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Thiruvananthapuram: The Principal Adviser, Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC), E. Sreedharan on Saturday held a discussion on the road ahead for the elevated Light Metro for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode with Managing Director of Kerala Rapid Transit Corporation Limited (KRTL) P.I. Sheikh Pareeth.

The meeting between Mr. Sreedharan and Mr. Pareeth here was the first after government decided in principle to give turnkey consultancy of project to the DMRC and nod for acquisition of land for three flyovers and light metro stations in the two cities. The DMRC has been given the nod by the government for the construction of the flyovers at Sreekariyam, Ulloor and Pattom. The ways to expedite the land acquisition and to start work for these flyovers also came up for discussion in the one-to-one talks. About 1.98 hectares is needed in the capital and 1.44 hectares in Kozhikode for the Light Metro stations.

Although the government has issued the orders, the Deputy Collector/Sub-Divisional Officer (Revenue) has not been posted to expedite the land acquisition procedures. The land identified from the two cities along the proposed light corridor has also not been notified despite the finalisation of the alignment.

The DMRC and the State is awaiting the nod of the Centre for expediting the MRTS project aimed at solving the traffic and transportation problems.

Mr. Sreedharan also had discussions with the C&MD of the Kerala Highspeed Rail Corporation, T. Balakrishnan.

Source//The Hindu.

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Delhi Metro | DMRC plans to set up a food plaza at Barakhamba station

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18/09/2016

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New Delhi: Moving beyond the usual kiosks, the Delhi Metro is planning to set up a food plaza at the busy Barakhamba station of the Blue Line, which connects Noida and Vaishali with Dwarka.
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The plaza, however, will not come up inside the station. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has a piece of barren land adjacent to the station where the facility is set to come up.

“We have 2,400 sqft of land and have proposed that it be given on lease basis where the lessee will have to develop, operate and maintain the food plaza or cafeteria,” said a metro official. The plot has been barren ever since the DMRC acquired it in 2005.

The DMRC hopes that the plaza will attract office-goers, as Barakhamba houses a number of corporates.

The project site falls in the Central Business District (CBD) as per the Master Plan of Delhi, 2021.

Given its proximity to Connaught Place, a lot of commuters will also use it as a place to hangout as the plaza will have a proper sitting area, the official added.

The planned structure is going to be a single-storey temporary building with mezzanine floors.

“The structures will have to be without any foundation or footing, so it can be removed when required. Fabric structures, building systems and steel prefab structures will be used. The exteriors, especially the glass facade, will be developed in harmony to the existing design of the station,” said another official.

The project is aimed to generate up-front and recurring revenues for the DMRC and supplement its non fare-box collections in the operation phase.

Currently, only Rajiv Chowk metro station of the Blue Line has eateries with sitting spaces.

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Bangalore Metro | BMRC phase-I metro project deadline pushed again to April 2017

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18/09/2016

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Bengaluru: The state government has once again pushed the deadline for the completion of Phase 1 of the Metro project to April 2017. Earlier, work was to end in April 2016 but was pushed to November 2016 before being delayed further.

It may be recalled that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah overrode Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation’s assurance that Phase 1 will be operational in January 2017. He instead asserted that it would be completed by this Rajyotsava Day on November 1. Now both the deadlines won’t be met.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Siddaramaiah announced that entire operations for the 43-km route of Phase 1 will be operational by April next year. He said that of the 11km yet to be completed in Phase 1, four km was underground. “Only 15 metres of work remain in the underground section. Other works like laying of tracks, electricity connections and trial runs will be completed by end of March and it should be open by April 2017,” he said.

In some cheer for thousands of commuters braving traffic on the Silk Board junction, the government has decided to fast-track construction of the Silk Board-K R Puram route via Iblur and will include it under the first part of Phase 2. Initially, the 18km stretch was not part of the original routes planned under Phase 2. However, earlier this year, then Bengaluru Development Minister K J George proposed the route after receiving numerous representations from employees of various IT companies commuting on this stretch.

The Metro project has been bogged by numerous delays ever since it took off. Earlier this year, then Bengaluru Development Minister K J George had said, “This route will be taken up on a priority basis. We have decided to allocate `3,600 crore for this. A Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be prepared by October 20. BMRCL will also raise funds through auction of their lands, loans and other methods.”

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd has proposed that funds would be raised through charging premium floor area ratio (FAR), betterment charges, naming and advertising rights, charges for premium access ways and ramps, commercialisation of airspace and levying of additional cess on approval of new projects.

Siddaramaiah also said that Phase 2 of Metro would be completed by 2020 and based on the experience in implementing Phase 1 of the project, an attempt would be made to complete the first part of Phase 2 two years before deadline.

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