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Gurgaon Metro | DMRC study for Metro to old city, Faridabad

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Gurgaon Metro | DMRC study for Metro to old city, Faridabad

Gurgaon: The Haryana government has asked Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to conduct a feasibility report for three routes on which it proposes to build new Metro lines – two from Huda City Centre to old Gurgaon and old Faridabad, respectively, and another from Narela in Delhi to Kundli in Sonipat district.

The feasibility study was ordered after a high-level meeting in Chandigarh chaired by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. The Haryana government has been dragging its feet on Metro connectivity in Gurgaon and other parts of NCR, and watched Uttar Pradesh race ahead with several lines either under construction or in advanced stages of planning in Noida and Greater Noida.

Khattar is keen to move quickly on these projects. But it’s still a long-drawn process as the feasibility report, which is likely to be completed by September, will be followed by a detailed project report (DPR) before the government finalises the logistics, funding and construction.

A senior government official told TOI, “The DMRC has been asked to let us know the feasibility of these three routes.” But another proposed Metro corridor, from Dwarka Sector 21 to IFFCO Chowk, was not discussed in the meeting, the official added. “That is a separate case and we have sought time from the chief minister to discuss the detailed project report that has already been prepared by DMRC. We want both DMRC and Rapid Metro representatives to be present so that both networks can be integrated to form the best route possible to connect Dwarka and Gurgaon,” the official said.

DMRC said the feasibility report will be prepared taking into account things such as population along the proposed route. “Once the feasibility report is prepared, the next step will be to prepare the DPR in which the station’s location, design, ridership, cost, utilities, electrical and several other components will be factored in. Then, after the DPR is approved by the state government, it will be sent to the ministry of urban development for approval,” said a DMRC spokesperson.

Gurgaon MP and Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh and MLAs in the district have been pressing hard to connect DMRC’s Yellow line or the Rapid Metro network with old Gurgaon. There are plans to start a new Rapid Metro line connecting old and new Gurgaon, but the state government has not yet approved this.
The Dwarka Sector 21-Iffco Chowk Metro line has been hanging fire for years. Last July, Khattar rejected the route suggested by DMRC in 2012 because he felt it would fail to attract commuters and the government would end up incurring heavy losses. He wants the route to be tweaked in such a way that large parts of the old city are included.

According to government estimates, the entire project will cost around Rs 5,000 crore.

The cost of each kilometre is likely to be Rs 400 crore. Around Rs 1,500 crore is needed just to build the depot. Because of the huge costs involved, government officials said the state wants to reach a carefully delberated decision rather than a rushed one under pressure.

(Source: TOI)

Delhi Metro | Women pickpockets caught in Delhi Metro

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Delhi Metro | Women pickpockets caught in Delhi Metro

New Delhi: 21 women pickpockets were apprehended and fined over Rs 3,000 today as part of a special crackdown by CISF security personnel in the Delhi Metro.

The operation was carried out at some of the busiest stations like Rajiv Chowk, Barakhamba road and Kashmere Gate by the plainclothes intelligence wing personnel of Central Industrial Security Force, officials said.

“These lady pickpockets were fined a total of Rs 3,190 as per Delhi Metro rules and were later sent out of the Metro. Such drives will be undertaken at other stations of the rail system in the coming days,” a senior official said.

Only yesterday, 21 pickpockets were held as part of a similar drive in the yellow line (Samaypur Badli-Huda City centre) of the Metro.

An average of 26 lakh people take the Delhi Metro everyday to reach their destinations in the national capital region of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad.

(Source: PTI)

Delhi Metro | DMRC to deploy ‘Internal Combat Group’ for female passengers

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Delhi Metro | DMRC to deploy ‘Internal Combat Group’ for female passengers

New Delhi: To ensure safety of women passengers in metro, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has decided to deploy ‘All Women Internal Combat Group’.

The decision was taken after a string of complaints registered at Metro police stations about eve-teasing, ogling from various female commuters.

The team deployed by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), has been given special training to fight multiple opponents in Metro trains, using Pekiti-Tirsia Kali (style specific to Filipino Martial Arts).

They have been given special training to fight miscreants bare-handed.

The Delhi Metro has been instrumental in ushering in a new era in the sphere of mass urban transportation in India. The modern metro system revolutionized the mass transportation scenario not only in the National Capital Region but the entire country.

Having constructed a massive network of 213 Km with 160 stations in record time, the DMRC today stands out as a shining example of how a mammoth technically complex infrastructure project can be completed before time and within budgeted cost by a Government agency.

Gurugram Metro | CM Khattar reviews the progress of metro rail projects in Haryana

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Gurugram Metro | CM Khattar reviews the progress of metro rail projects in Haryana

Chandigarh: A meeting presided by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to review pending issues of metro and other railway projects here today.

 He reviewed the progress of Metro projects in Haryana and gave necessary directions to the officers concerned.

The meeting was told that Gurgaon metro — Badarpur to YMCA in Faridabad and Sikanderpur Station to NH 8, Gurgaon have already been made operational.

The metro link from Sikanderpur station to Sector 56, Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh metro project and Ballabhgarh metro project are under implementation and would be completed by the end of 2017.

The state government has requested Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to carry out a techno-feasibility study of three projects — metro connectivity from HUDA City Centre to Old Faridabad, extension of Delhi Metro till Kondli and metro connectivity between Faridabad and Gurgaon.

Delhi Metro | DMRC Fare Fixation Committee invites suggestions from the public

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Delhi Metro | DMRC Fare Fixation Committee invites suggestions from the public

New Delhi: The 4th Fare Fixation Committee (FFC) constituted by the Government of India for the purpose of recommending the revised passenger fares for the Delhi Metro has invited suggestions from the general public in this regard.

The notice inviting suggestions from the Metro passengers has also been displayed at major interchange Metro stations of the Delhi Metro Network namely Rajiv Chowk, Kashmere Gate, Mandi House and Central Secretariat at appropriate locations. The suggestions can be sent through email at 4thffc@dmrc.org or by Post to the Chairman, 4th Fare Fixation Committee, Metro Bhawan, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-110001. The last date for sending suggestions is 30th June 2016.

Set up under Sections 33 & 34 of the Metro Railway (Operations and Maintenance) Act, 2002, the Committee has been given three month time from the date of assumption.

The members of the 4th FFC are Justice M.L.Mehta, retired Judge of the High Court of Delhi, Shri K.K.Sharma (Chief Secretary, G NCT Delhi) and Shri Durga Shanker Mishra (Additional Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development). The committee assumed the charge on 9th June 2016 and has to submit its report by 8thSeptember 2016.

The last Fare Fixation Committee submitted their recommendations on Metro fares in 2009. The Delhi Metro’s fares were last revised in November 2009 when the minimum fare was revised to Rs. 8 from Rs. 6 while the maximum fare was revised to Rs 30 from Rs 22. Since then, DMRC’S network has increased from 90 km to 213 km while fares have remained the same and operating expenses have gone up considerably.

Delhi Metro | Entry/Exit at Rajiv Chowk Stn will remain closed till 8.30am on June 21

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Delhi Metro | Entry/Exit at Rajiv Chowk Stn will remain closed till 8.30am on June 21

New Delhi: On the occasion of International Yoga Day, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has issued a public notice and notified that the entry and exit for passengers at Rajiv Chowk Metro station will remain closed till 08:30AM on 21st June 2016. This has been necessitated in view of the security requirements and the advisory issued by Delhi Police for the ‘International Day for Yoga’ which is being organized at Connaught Place (Rajiv Chowk) on 21st June 2016.

However, interchange of passengers will be available at the station for Line 3/4 (Blue Line) and Line 2 (Yellow Line) and vice versa during this period.

Normal entry/exit for passengers will be available at the station from 8:30AM onwards.

Delhi Metro | DMRC proposes hike in min fare 15 and max 70 to union ministry

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Delhi Metro | DMRC proposes hike in min fare 15 and max 70 to union ministry

New Delhi: Commuting by Metro in the National Capital Region is set to get more costlier. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has proposed to hike the fares across the routes to take care of it ever increasing expenses.

The fare fixation committee of the city’s metro body has recommended to raise the minimum fare of Rs 8 to Rs 15 and the maximum fare of Rs 30 may be hiked to Rs 70.

Considering its increasing operating expenses and the outgo on the repayment of the Japanese loan, the fare hike has turned imminent. Delhi metro saw the last fare hike in 2009.

As per media report, the fare fixation committee of the metro body is likely to submit its recommendations to the government in the next two months.

New Metro Project | NCRPB approves 3 RRTS corridors, metro projects loan repayment

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New Metro Project | NCRPB approves 3 RRTS corridors, metro projects loan repayment

New Delhi: The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCPRB) on June 15 decided to increase loan repayment tenure from 10 to 20 years for metro and rail-based projects, reduced interest rates for infrastructure projects by 0.

5 percent and gave nod for implementation of three RRTS Corridors – Delhi-Alwar, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Meerut.

The 36th meeting of the NCRPB held under the chairmanship of Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu, also asked participating states to prepare the sub-regional plans for newly added districts within three months time for which 100 percent funding will be provided by the Board.

The Board also directed the NCR states to resolve the inter-state connectivity issues at the earliest, which would help in decongestion of roads leading to Delhi from adjoining states.

“As metro projects are very capital intensive and have long gestation period, it needs support from financial institutions to make them viable.

“First step in this direction is announcement of increase in the loan repayment period from 10 years to 20 years including moratorium period of 5 years for repayment of principal for all existing and new metro/ rail-based projects with financial assistance from NCRPB,” Naidu said while addressing the meeting.

To provide a push for infrastructure development, the interest rates on funding from NCRPB was reduced from 7.50 percent to 7 percent for priority sector projects, while it was reduced for land development projects from 9.25 percent to 8.50 percent.

The priority sector projects include water supply, sewerage, solid waste management, drainage, metro/rapid rail, road, expressways, affordable housing, whereas the land development projects include residential and industrial projects, commercial and office buildings and social infrastructure.

Naidu said issues related to Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), a rail-based system, have been resolved and further work on these three corridors, namely, Delhi-Alwar, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Meerut could be started immediately.

Delhi Metro | Train fare revison panel seeks lessons from abroad

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Delhi Metro | Train fare revison panel seeks lessons from abroad

New Delhi: A government-appointed panel to suggest fare revision in Delhi Metro recently sent a proposal to the urban development ministry to visit Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo to learn how the Metro rail systems in these cities go about revising their fares.

Though the ministry is yet to decide on the proposal, Panel chief Justice M L Mehta said it would first examine various presentations on Metro rail systems. “No decision has been taken yet. We may reconsider the proposal to visit any of the cities. We have taken presentations of many of the Metro rail systems. Once we go through all of them, there may not be need to visit any city abroad,” Justice Mehta told TOI.

He said the earlier panel set up in 2009 for the same purpose had visited these cities. Sources said the present fourth Fare Fixation Committee (FFC) may have followed the earlier practice to make such a suggestion.

The other two members in the committee are urban development ministry additional secretary Durga Shanker Mishra and Delhi chief secretary K K Sharma. Justice Mehta said the committee will complete the task in less than three months, the time given to them for fare revision. “We have held three meetings. Our report will be submitted to the government as soon as we are through,” he added.

Fares were last revised in 2009 when the minimum fare was raised from Rs 6 to Rs 8, while the maximum fare was hiked to Rs 30 from Rs 22.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has demanded that fares be hiked in view of increase in electricity tariff. According to data provided by the ministry, DMRC registered a net loss before tax of Rs 275.46 crore in 2014-15, a huge increase of 353 per cent from Rs 60.74 crore in 2013-14.

Source: TOI

Vijayawada Metro | Metro rail project may hit fund problem

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Vijayawada Metro | Metro rail project may hit fund problem

Vijayawada: The Vijayawada Metro Rail Project is facing starting problem due to lack of funds.

DMRC Principal Advisor, E. Sridharan also expressed his displeasure over delay in funds release at a meeting with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu two days ago and is learnt to have reminded him about the deadline of 2018 for completion of the project. Now it seems difficult to complete the project as per deadline.

Initially an amount of Rs 800 crore is required to pay the land owners under the land acquisition scheme, but the Centre has allocated on;y Rs 100 crore for the project in the last Budget. Though the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is ready to fund the project but Rs 1,000 crore is needed for land acquisition and other works to begin the project. The state government too has not released any funds for the project so far.

The state government has completed all the necessary works and the Centre has also given nod to this project. Nearly Rs 6,000 crore is required for the project but the JICA formally accepted to provide funds only up to 60 per cent. The remaining funds should be allotted by the state and central governments equally. The JICA will release its share of funds at project works execution stage only.

Actually, Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation has requested the state government to release funds for land acquisition process. As per the preliminary estimations, nearly 75 acres of land is required for establishing metro stations and metro depot on the city outskirts. The funds release is important at present to begin the works.

One senior official, on condition of anonymity, said that nearly Rs 1,000 crore is needed for land acquisition process. The state government assured to release Rs 150 crore three months ago. But the project execution is totally dependent upon funds release, he added.

Source: Deccan Chronicle

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