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MP Metro | MP Chief Minister meets Jaitley for metro rail projects in Bhopal & Indore

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MP Metro | MP Chief Minister meets Jaitley for metro rail projects in Bhopal & Indore

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Wednesday met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and put forth the proposal of borrowing funds from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Asian development Banks (ADB) for Indore and Bhopal rail projects.

Addressing the media here Chauhan said that he is planning to bring in metro services in Indore and Bhopal and for that, he has approached the Finance Ministry.

We want metro rail project for Indore and Bhopal. We have put forth a request for loan in front the European investment bank and Asian development Banks for building Metro for Indore and Bhopal respectively. So I have urged the Finance Minister to pitch for us and he has assured us that they will provide whatever assistance is needed, said Chauhan.

The Madhya Pradesh government is looking for avenues to raise Rs 14,485.55 crore to implement metro rail project in Indore and Bhopal.

Last December, the government approved the detailed project report (DPR) which envisages Rs 14,485.55 crore investment to put in place the rapid transport system in the two main cities of the state.

Delhi Metro | Operators on Strike since April 17 against the ‘discriminatory’ policies of DMRC

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Delhi Metro | Operators on Strike since April 17 against the ‘discriminatory’ policies of DMRC

New Delhi :  A surprised visit by our team, the train operators of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) were found on protest at Yamuna Bank Metro Station platform. These train operators continue their protest on the 27th day but insensitive DMRC Management seems in no mood to hear their voices.

The entire operations staff including train operators of DMRC are protesting by wearing black ribbons in their arms since April 17 against the ‘discriminatory’ policies of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

“We are working, operating trains and after that, we come here to protest in 40-degree temp, employees are getting exhausted and that is even risky for the safety of passengers as we need 100 percent focus while operating trains, but authorities are not concerned for any of this,” said Ravi Bhardvaz, a member of DMRC staff council.

“It was started on April 17 by wearing a black ribbon on left hand, but the insensitive management, rather than listening to our problems started to threaten us to end protest or face disciplinary action. They even send show cause notices to some 15 people,” he added.

“There is a lack of standard Policy in DMRC which need to be reformed for betterment, sustainability and Good work culture of the organization in long run,” said Ravi Bhardwaj, Member Staff Council.

The protesters have also threatened to intensify their protest and said they will further shave their heads and go on “hunger strike” if their demands are not met by the authorities.

”From May 1, we had given up our facilities including restrooms and working from platforms without taking rests. If the authorities don’t listen to us we will go on a hunger strike. We will come and operate trains but will not sign off and continuously work without having food,” Ravi Bhardwaj told to Media.

“We are working, operating trains and after that, we come here to protest in 40-degree temp, employees are getting exhausted and that is even risky for the safety of passengers as we need 100 percent focus while operating trains, but authorities are not concerned for any of this,” he added further.

However, the protesting employees said they have no plans to directly halt metro services but due to incapacity metro services could be halted.

Chennai Metro | CMRL opens its first underground metro corridor for public

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Chennai Metro | CMRL opens its first underground metro corridor for public

Chennai: Chief Minister Edapaddi Palaniswami and Union minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu flagged off a train and inaugurated the 8km underground line between Thirumangalam and Nehru Park on Sunday.

Passenger services will begin 2pm onwards. A few free services were run between Thirumangalam and Nehru Park.

The underground line has seven stations, which are in turn linked to the elevated corridors through a ramp between Thirumangalam and Koyambedu.

Many commuters waited for several hours to take a joy ride. The second train from Thirumangalam station began its journey in the midst of applause and cheers from passengers.

Source: TOI

Delhi Metro | Commuters protest metro fare hike, say people will be burdened

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Delhi Metro | Commuters protest metro fare hike, say people will be burdened

New Delhi: A group of Delhi metro commuters boycotted the metro on Saturday and protested outside Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) office against the recent fare hike.

The Delhi Metro Commuters’ Association (A unit of Metro Yatri Club) submitted a memorandum to DMRC. They said if Metro doesn’t accept the demand for an immediate reduction of fare, other measures will be taken in the coming days.

Another group of activists gathered at Jantar Mantar and burnt an effigy of Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. They accused DMRC and the UD ministry of working for the Japanese with utter disregard for common people of Delhi.

Kochi Metro | KMRL appoints transgenders for office support & ticketing work

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Kochi Metro | KMRL appoints transgenders for office support & ticketing work

Kochi: The upcoming Kochi Metro will employ 23 transgenders to push for the welfare of the marginalised and neglected community.

They will be deployed in different sections, including housekeeping and ticket counters based on their qualifications, said sources at the Kerala Metro Rail Limited.

This is for the first time a government-owned company in the state is providing bulk employment to members of the third gender.

While educated among them will be deployed in key posts others will be deployed in house-keeping and cleaning sections.

“This is an attempt to bring them to the mainstream. We hope our maiden attempt will be a runaway success. We expect other firms to follow suit and engage them in respectable positions,” said Kerala Metro Rail Limited managing director Elias George.

Being selected through written tests and interviews, they are currently undergoing training. More transgenders will be inducted by the metro after gauging performance of the first lot of employees from the community, metro sources said.

Delhi Metro | DMRC to challenge tribunal order on airport line in Delhi High Court

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Delhi Metro | DMRC to challenge tribunal order on airport line in Delhi High Court

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will move the Delhi High Court against a tribunal’s order asking it to pay Rs 2,950 crore to a Reliance-infra subsidiary in a case related to the Delhi Metro Airport Express premium corridor.

The Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL), the subsidiary, had terminated its contract in 2013 after initially running operations on this corridor, which an arbitration tribunal upheld as valid yesterday.

However, DMRC termed DAMEPL’s termination notice as “legally untenable”, saying it was against the provisions of the concessionaire agreement that was governing the project.

It was metro’s first project based on the public-private partnership model.

“The DMRC has decided to seek legal remedies under the Arbitration Act 1996 and have decided to file an objection petition before the High Court of Delhi on this matter under Section 34 of the Arbitration Act,” Anuj Dayal, the executive director (communications) of DMRC, said.

DAMEPL had pulled out of the 22.7-km line, that connects New Delhi railway station with IGI terminal 3, in 2013 after a prolonged tussle with metro over alleged construction defects.

Guwahati Metro | Assam Govt. not hopeful of starting metro project soon

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Guwahati Metro | Assam Govt. not hopeful of starting metro project soon

Guwahati: The Assam government said it was not hopeful of starting the ambitious Guwahati Metro Rail project in the near future.

Informing the current status of the project on May 8, 2017 in the Assam Assembly, Guwahati Development Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state government has decided to trim the network proposed in the Detailed Project Report.

The DPR, was prepared by the state under the previous Congress government but was not sent to the Centre for approval. The Congress governmment had laid the foundation stone of the project.

“I’m not hopeful of the project. It will not happen soon. We do not even have the traffic movement study. In third or fourth year of our tenure, we may go to approval stage,” Sarma told the House.

Replying to the issue raised by Asom Gana Parishad’s Ramendra Narayan Kalita during Zero Hour, Sarma said the earlier government had awarded a Rs 6 crore contact to PSU firm RITES to prepare a DPR, which was approved by only the state cabinet.

“For any metro rail project, we have to get Centre’s approval with traffic movement study. But in this case it was not done and the state went ahead with laying the foundation stone,” he added.

Sarma also said that the DPR proposed to construct a metro rail network in the state capital at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore, of which Rs 4,000 crore would be spent by the local government.

“We discussed in the recent Cabinet meeting that we cannot spend that amount. So we decided to trim the network to have only the Dharapur-Narengi route and to study the possibility to have another track from the proposed AIIMS site to Jalukbari,” he added.

He also charged the previous Congress government of going ahead with the project by spending Rs 70-80 lakh on the foundation stone laying function without even having the loan sanctioned by the Centre or making alternate financial arrangements.

On 29 February 2016, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had laid the foundation stone of the project, which was proposed to be implemented by the Special Purpose Vehicle Guwahati Metro Rail Corporation Limited.

The total cost of the project was estimated to be Rs 18,020 crore and it was supposed to be implemented in different phases across the city.

Source: PTI News

Centre to come out with new Metro Rail policy for future metro rail projects

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Centre to come out with new Metro Rail policy for future metro rail projects

New Delhi: The Centre will come out with a new Metro Rail policy for future projects, in line with the government-approved National Policy on Transit Oriented Development (TOD), Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said here today.

“The Centre is formulating a new Metro Rail policy to enable innovative finance such as land value capture, transit- oriented development for new Metro Rail projects,” he said.

Besides the new metro policy, a National Policy on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) has been formulated and approved by the Union government, he said.

This will form a mandatory requirement for all new metro projects in the country, Naidu said.

The minister made the remarks after flagging off the first underground Metro Rail service from Tirumangalam to Nehru Park here, in the presence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami.

Naidu said the Centre has standardised critical specifications of rolling stock and signalling systems of Metro Rail for promoting standardisation and indigenisation.

He said the government was also planning to roll out a ‘green urban mobility’ scheme, aimed at improving overall travel facilities in cities by providing last mile connectivity through non-motorised transport like pedestrian pathways and bicycle sharing.

Referring to the new metro line here, Naidu said 28 kms of a total length of 45 kms in Phase 1 of the project will now be operational.

“This project was sanctioned by Government of India at a cost of Rs 14,600 crore. The government has so far released about Rs 11,301 crore for the Chennai Metro project,” he said.

“With today’s launch of the line, around 341 kms of metro rail has become operational in New Delhi, the National Capital Region including Gurgaon, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Mumbai. Around 529 kms are at present under construction in places like Delhi, NCR, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Mumbai, Kochi and Ahmedabad,” Naidu said.

(This article has not been edited by Metro Rail News’s editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Vijayawada Metro | Centre refuses to approve the Rs 6,847 crore proposed metro project

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Vijayawada Metro | Centre refuses to approve the Rs 6,847 crore proposed metro project

The Union finance ministry has refused to approve the Rs 6,847 crore proposed Vijayawada Metro Rail project till such time the Centre finalises the Metro rail policy while raising questions whether it is financially viable.

The Andhra Pradesh government is pushing for the Vijayawada Metro project, citing how the city is the gateway to the new capital of Amravati and is expected to see a spurt in population and traffic in the near future.

Union urban development minister, M Venkaiah Naidu, who is from the state, is also batting for the project.

Government sources said that finance secretary Ashok Lavasa has raised “concern” over the low financial internal rate of return (FIRR) of the project. FIRR is largely based on cost and returns of the project.

“The FIRR of the Vijayawada Metro is around 3%. Currently, metro projects are cleared if the FIRR is 8%,” said a finance ministry official.

The Vijayawada Metro proposal came up for approval on March 20 at the finance ministry’s Public Investment Board meeting.

It is only after the Public Investment Board – headed by the finance secretary – appraises and gives its green signal, that a project is placed before the cabinet for final approval.

Alstom commissions ATO system for Parisian RER A network in France

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Alstom commissions ATO system for Parisian RER A network in France

The Alstom-developed Automatic Train Operation system has commenced operations on the central section of the Parisian RER A between Nanterre-Préfecture, Val-de-Fontenay and Fontenay-sous-Bois in France.

A double-deck MI09 train began operations on the line last month, which has also been developed and supplied by Alstom.

The new system will complement the driver assistance, operation and maintenance system (SACEM) installed in 1989 to improve the performance and frequency of the RER A line, which transports an estimated 1.2 million passengers daily.

Automatic operation will be gradually implemented through November next year on the entire fleet of 183 two-level trains (MI2N and MI09) currently operating on line A.

Alstom France president Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud said: “Alstom is very proud to participate in this project, which is vital for mobility in the Ile de France region.

Alstom’s French signalling teams, based in Saint-Ouen and Villeurbanne, are putting all their expertise and enthusiasm into providing an innovative, reliable solution capable of operating with an older system.

“This project will be an impressive showcase for Alstom’s signalling know-how.”

Alstom secured the contract from the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), the Syndicat des Transports d’Île-de-France (STIF) and the Ile-de-France Region in January 2015 for the development and installation of the automatic operation system along line A.

The €20m contract included various detailed studies, manufacture of the prototype and equipment for the trains, in addition to testing and project assistance services.

The solution is expected to improve the regularity of the line with an increase in commercial speed by 5km/h upon its integration with SACEM.

SACEM system was also co-developed and implemented by Alstom, and has been utilised to ensure performance and safety of Line A since 1989.

Alstom also has also deployed similar solutions for SACEM in Mexico and Hong Kong.

Source: Railway Technology

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