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Nagpur: Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for work to begin on the Metro rail stretch from Hingna Road depot to Sitabuldi. It set aside the order issued by Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court in favour of joint venture (JV) between Tata Projects Limited (TPL) and Guangdong Yuantian Engineering Company (GYT). The SC decided on the case within one month preventing further delay in the project.
The work on Sitabuldi-Hingna depot section of Metro rail was slated to begin in April but got stuck due to litigation between Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL) and the JV. The litigation started when NMRCL rejected the technical bid of JV. According to NMRCL, the Tata-led JV had experience in construction of high speed rail but not Metro rail.
The JV challenged the decision in Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, which directed the NMRCL to open its financial bid too. One of the bidders, Afcons, then challenged this order in Supreme Court in the role of an intervener. The SC first granted a status quo on August 22 but decided in favour of NMRCL and Afcons on Thursday.
A NMRCL official said that five companies had bid for the work — Larsen & Toubro, Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC), Afcons, ITD and the Tata-led JV. “Now we will evaluate the bids of the first four companies. This process will be completed as early as possible and work order will be issued,” he added.
The length of the Sitabuldi-Hingna section is about 9 km. The estimated cost of the construction is about 440 crore. The geotechnical survey of this section had been done months ago.
Meanwhile, the work on Mihan-Sitabuldi stretch of the Metro is going on at a fast pace. NMRCL has so far erected 12 pillars and is in the process of erecting another 35. NMRCL has also launched two horizontal spans. Construction of two stations on this stretch has also started. Work has also started on construction of eight pillars near the main railway station.
The agency has also sent tender for Sitabuldi-Wardhaman Nagar stretch to its prime lender KfW, a German financial institution, for vetting. Once it is cleared, the tender will be floated.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Limited has published a notification for the recruitment of 1509 Assistant Manager/ Finance, Station Controller/ Train Operator, Customer Relations Assistant, Junior Engineer/ Electrical, Junior Engineer/ Electronics, Junior Engineer/ Mechanical, Junior Engineer/ Civil, Office & Account Assistant, Stenographer and Maintainer vacancies on direct recruitment basis. Eligible candidates may apply online from 16-09-2016 at 10:00 hrs to 15-10-2016 by 23:59 hrs. Other details like age, educational qualification, selection process, how to apply are given below-
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Kochi: The Edappally flyover that will be inaugurated on Sunday was built by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for Rs.38 crore as against the estimated cost of Rs.
49 crore.
The DMRC could save Rs.11 crore by adopting an economical and innovative design, said a press release by the agency.
The Edappally flyover is expected to halve traffic congestion at one of the busiest junctions in the State. The National Highway 47, NH 47 Bypass and NH 17 meet at the junction where traffic snarls were the norm.
The DMRC’s Pricipal Advisor E. Sreedharan has suggested the setting up of an underpass linking NH 47 Bypass and NH 17, to further reduce snarls at the junction where one of the biggest shopping malls in India was opened three years ago.
The DMRC took up with the State government the need for a flyover here when Kochi metro rail works were sanctioned. A decision was thus taken to construct the metro viaduct over the flyover, since a flyover could not be built as a separate project.
The proposal was submitted to the Government of Kerala in March 2013 and the government sanctioned the work within two months. The land acquisition cost came to Rs.54.54 crore.
The project consists of a pair of two-lane flyovers on either side of metro piers, flanked by two-lane roads. Two new bridges too were built prior to the start of flyover works.
The total length of the flyover is 433 metres out of which the bridge structure makes up 283 metres. It has a central span of 35 metres with a vertical clearance of 5.5 metres.
The width will make it possible to construct an underpass in the future. Twenty-four piers with 90 piles support the flyover.
The foundation work for the flyover began in January 2015. The work was completed in August this year.
New Delhi: A whopping Rs 43 lakh in cash, 283 mobile phones and 79 laptops were among the belongings left behind by commuters while travelling in the Delhi Metro till August this year, according to the rail network’s ‘lost and found’ data. The recovery of cash forgotten and later restored to the traveller, as per data accessed by Media, is one of the largest in the last few years. For the entirety of last year, the corresponding figure was only over Rs 18.80 lakh.
As per data prepared by CISF, the security force tasked to secure the Metro network, a total of Rs 43,18,155 in forgotten cash was recovered by its personnel apart from foreign currency worth over Rs 26,000 and bank cheques/drafts worth over Rs 40.85 lakh. Besides that, 79 laptops, 23 pieces of gold ornaments, 283 laptops, 63 watches, nine cameras and as many tablet phones were recovered from the Delhi Metro from January to August this year.
“These are cases of lost and and found in the Delhi Metro. Such cases occur at some station or the other almost every day. The Central Industrial Security Force is tasked with the security duties in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and after recovering these items and scanning them from the point of view threats, the force hands them over to the station controller.
“In most cases, the person who forgets his belonging comes back and the cash and other stuff is handed back to the bonafide owner after due verification,” a senior official said. The comparative figures for last year’s recoveries of foreign currency and bank instruments stood at Rs 16,000 and Rs 1.93 lakh respectively.
During the 12-month period, 108 laptops, 26 pieces of ornaments, 37 cameras, 60 watches, 313 mobile phones, 14 tablet phones and half-a-dozen I-Pods were left and found at various Metro stations. The Delhi Metro network has over 150 operational stations running across Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad. An estimated 26 lakh people use it to travel to their destination every day.
New Delhi: After the Metro, the national Capital of Delhi may get the Metrino: Driverless pods suspended midair from wire on a 70 km stretch between Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan and Manesar (Haryana). The plan is to develop this system in the next two-three years.
According to sources, the Union Minister of Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari made a presentation to the Union Cabinet about this new mode of transport on Wednesday evening. The Cabinet members lauded the project, which is likely to decongest traffic on National Highway-8 (NH-8) that currently has the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway.
“The project will be executed and operated by a private player without any investment from the Union government. The minister, in his presentation, said a consultant would be entrusted with the job of preparing a detailed project report (DPR) within six months. The project cost is estimated to be around Rs 4,000 crore and is likely to be completed in two years from the date of award of contract,” said a government official.
Gadkari had earlier indicated that the capital cost of the Metrino was Rs 50 crore for a kilometre in contrast to the Metro, which is Rs 350 crore. Besides, the project does not require land. The government plans to provide the central verge to build the pillars.
The Metrino system would run on the pattern of a ropeway. It would come down at the station and would be powered on electricity. Each pod will accommodate up to five people. The pods are suspended from an overhead network that is around 5-10 m above ground. Each pod is capable of speeds up to 50 kmph.
Under the project, fully automated and driverless pods will travel suspended under an overhead network. Sources added that once a passenger gets into the pod, he/she can select the destination using either a touch panel or voice commands. Rides can take place from any stop directly to the destination selected without a break in journey. Stops are offline like petrol stations along motorways, and hence, don’t obstruct the flow of traffic on guideways.
The Metrino system has been tried out in countries like Poland.
According to a New Zealand-based Metrino PRT website, Metrino has the capacity of ferrying 6,000 passengers per direction every hour compared to 3,000 for buses and 40,000 for tubes.
Jaipur: The Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) has cleared the final hurdle as its second tunnel has also crossed the state monument Isar Lat in the Walled City without causing any damage.
The entire operation of constructing two underground tunnels between Chandpole to Badi Chaupar (2.789 km), underJaipur Metro rail (phase-1 B) project, was meticulously monitored online simultaneously by the technicians in Jaipur, Delhi and experts at Athens, Greece.
During the digging, JMRC meticulously monitored the fragile state monument Isar Lat as well as the surroundings. For this, prisms were installed on the monument to keep a check on the settlement, with experts monitoring the reading after every half an hour. Other than this, crack meters and vibration meters were also fixed on the meter.
“It was a big challenge for our team as digging was done approximately 60 metres away from the state monument Isar Lat. However, we had experience of working in similar conditions as the first tunnel was dug. Also, this time the vibrations were far less than the permissible limit,” a senior JMRC official said.
He added that before the digging started, the Ombicron Greece developed a three-dimensional (3D) model of the monument. Through software they tried to simulate the situation and studied what would be the effect on the monument during excavation by a tunnel boring machine (TBM). The 3D model helped JMRC to avoid damage and settlement to a state monument.
After the design was prepared by the experts from Greece, it was proof checked by the geo consultant in Paris and finally by the IIT, Delhi. At the time TBM was physically operational near the monument, the design pressure, rotation speed, thrust of the jack, grouting pressure were closely monitored online in Greece, Athens, Paris, Delhi and Jaipur. In the Walled City area, the tunnel is constructed near four archaeological monuments- Chandpole Gate, Isar Lat, Jantar Mantar and Hawa Mahal. As the second tunnel has crossed Isar Lat, JMRC officials can heave a sigh of relief as there are no major hurdles ahead.
New Delhi: The buzz word in the developmental arena, of late, has been smart city and now it took another leap forward with the shift in focus on how the cities will become adaptable to the changes and become sustainable. While speaking at the second edition of ‘National Summit on 100 Smart Cities 2016’, Mr. Tarun Kapoor, IAS Principal Secretary, Government of Himachal Pradesh, said “the Himachal Pradesh government is rolling out incentives to help propel the formation of sustainable smart cities.” The second national summit was organised by Bharat Exhibitions.
National Summit on 100 Smart Cities 2016
The discussions at the summit revolved around the needs, looks and role of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) in making the smart cities sustainable.
Mr. Kapoor further spoke on how the government of Himachal Pradesh has incentives for those who generate power using waste. “The government has directed to control waste in areas like Manali and Rohtang where efforts are being made so that the hotels and other establishments in the area generate energy from their own waste. These are few steps which have been initiated”, he further added.
The discussion revolved around the development of the smart cities and the role of IoT in a way that they sustain the future developmental dynamics. While giving his key-note address Mr. Stefan Sjöström, Vice President Asia, Public Sector, Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd., said, “Technology today touches every aspect of our life and one very important aspect is the education domain. The massive e-learning initiatives with over 2000 online courses are changing lives of around 30 million students in the country.” According to him, IoT would touch all aspects of human life. “Technology is the backbone of all the development that smart cities can expect in future,” he added.
While praising the efforts of the Government of India, Dr. Sumit D Chowdhury, Founder & CEO, Gaia Smart Cities said, “This was for the first time that different departments sat together to discuss and plan a project. Individual projects are not going to help, as it becomes a financial burden, so all departments have to work in tandem, together. Biggest part of the smart cities is behavioral change. They need professionals who would work long term in the city towards the development of the same city.”
Besides education, the impact of health industry too would be a focus of a sustained smart city. “Every year epidemic happens and we know the issues. A design has to be worked out so as to clean the metrics. The major problem is of maintenance. There is vast talent pool, all we need to change is the behavior,” said Mr. Sumit Puri, CIO, Max Health Care.
“The urban planning is an important aspect of our future smart cities,” said Prof. Dr. P.S.N. Rao, Head of Housing, School of Planning and Architecture & Chairman, DUAC. “However, there is no urban planner in the picture, there is much more to uniformity in design. How you mange the garbage, water and other important resources is a very critical part of the whole process. Five years is just a warming period to re-do Indian cities. We surely need much more time. Also, for a better implementation, there should be a CEO appointed for a minimum of ten years for each smart city,” he added.
“We need smart cities as there is a lot of urban pressure and a lot of wastage of resources. The inspirational part is already under way as the small townships that are growing at present are trying to fit into the smart city frame. We need a bag of economically viable projects,” said Mr. Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India.
“One cannot have all decisions taken at the municipality level. Some decisions have to be taken by the citizens as well. We have to have the vision as to how our cities are going to become in the next five years and later. Smart spaces have to be focused on. We have to define future-ready cities,” said Mr. Indraneel Ghosh, Assistant Vice President, Brillio India.
As a concept, the mission of smart city is a well thought out, well-planned initiative of the Government of India. The cities intend to monetize the assets.
“For a threat challenged country like India, embedded SIM can be a revolution. One embedded SIM can take as many as five subscriptions. This will help address the coverage issue, which is a major problem that is faced while executing the smart plans as many areas do not have connectivity,” said Mr. Sharad Arora, Managing Director, Sensorise Digital Services Pvt. Ltd.
Making it truly global platform to conduct business, global players such as; Microsoft, Gaia Smart Cities, Brillio, Sensorise, TATA DoCoMo, Smart Cities Council India participated at the event.
Chennai: With an aim to improve mobility in the city, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has evolved a Master Plan for Chennai Metropolitan Area that envisages a 100-km rail network with multimodal transport system, announced Pankaj Kumar Bansal, MD, Chennai Metro Rail Limited .
Addressing the session on “Railway Connectivity and Urban Transport Solutions” at CII Suminfra 2016,he added that Chennai Metro believes in multi-modal integration strategy, which is factored right from project design and construction. This strategy provides access to metro railway stations for pedestrians, bicycles, bus, and pick up & drop off vehicles.
He mentioned that the share of public transport in Chennai has come down from about 50% in 1992 to 30% in 2014 and over 40% of transportation depends on private facilities. “In order to reduce congestion and bring down transportation cost and pollution, the city has to strengthen its public transportation system,” he said and added that CMRL’s Chennai Central Square, a 500 meter long hub, at Chennai Central, will act as a link traffic network.
In his address, Anil Kumar Saini, head, Railway Systems, L&T Metro Rail, Hyderabad, said that integration planning and multimodal integration is key to developing urban transport infrastructure. The integration should be done at all levels: physical, operational, fare, and information, under the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority’s framework that the Government of India is working on.
He said that excepting tramway, other mass transit systems like BRTS, LRTS, mono rail, and metro rail are suitable for Indian cities. However, cities must undertake feasibility studies, understand ridership pattern, future development, and rate of return before selecting the mode.
Varanasi: The metro rail project for the city, which has been approved by the state government, is waiting for the approval of the Central government. Principal secretary housing Sadakant instructed the officials to display the picture of metro rail at public places to apprise the masses of proposed project.
Sadakant, who held a meeting with officials of Varanasi Development Authority on Monday, said that the detailed project report (DPR) of metro rail was prepared by Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES), a government of India enterprise. The work on project will start immediately after the nod from the Centre, he said adding that the DPR has already been forwarded to the Central government for approval.
New Delhi: Jindal Steel and Power Ltd said on Tuesday that the company is set to supply rails for the high-speed railway and metro rail projects after its ₹200 crore plant set up in collaboration with SMS Meer, Germany, has come onstream.
The plant is capable of producing 30,000 tonne of head hardened rail a month and it aims to substitute imports, which metro rail developers were forced to use till now.
“The declared metro rail projects itself give us a market of 0.5 million tonne over the next two-three years. With this new line of product, we expect that our rail business will yield ₹200 crore of revenues a month from this fiscal (2016-17) compared to ₹45 crore a month in the previous fiscal,” said Ravi Uppal, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.
Uppal said that currently, the landed price of imported head hardened rails is around ₹75,000 per tonne, while normal rails which are imported costs ₹50-55,000 per tonne.
“We would aim to bring down this cost difference. Apart from getting head hardened rail at a cheaper price, buyers can also benefit from shorter delivery times and would also be able to order as much as they need rather than bulk orders which they need to place for imports,” he added.
JSPL expects its entire rail business to contribute ₹1,800-2,000 crore to its revenues during the 2016-17 fiscal which would be scaled up to over ₹3,300 crore over the next two-three years.
Already the company’s order book for normal rails is 3 lakh tonne, which will be delivered over the next few months.
Head hardened rails are typically used in metro rail projects and high speed freight corridors.
Head hardening technology entails a special heat treatment process which requires precise temperature control to achieve nearly 50 per cent higher hardness as compared to a normal rail.
