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Delhi Metro Security | Parliamentary panel feels, metro stations vulnerable to terror attacks

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Delhi Metro Security | Parliamentary panel feels, metro stations vulnerable to terror attacks

New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel has felt there is an urgent need to strengthen the security of the Delhi Metro to neutralise the possibility of any terrorist strike as the capital’s mass rapid transport system is vulnerable to attacks. It also suggested that the visibility of Delhi Police in the Delhi Metro stations must be substantially increased. ”The committee observes that about 25 lakh commuters travel through metro rail daily in Delhi and in view of the prevailing security scenario in the country, metro rail in Delhi appears to be vulnerable to man-made disasters or terrorist attack,” the department-related Parliamentary standing committee on Home Affairs said in its 189 report.

The panel recommended that Delhi Police should continue to take pre-emptive steps to guard Delhi Metro against any causality or strike. ”Delhi Police should be in close coordination with Central Industrial Security Force to provide appropriate security without any possibility of lapse. Deployment of Delhi Police staff at more Metro stations may also be examined,” it said. The ridership of Delhi Metro has already touched 26 lakh. As crowd density at Metro station at any given point of time is very high, hence it is a potential target for the terrorist activity. At present, there are eight Metro Police stations to look after the law and order, crime and security of the area, it said.

Delhi Police is taking various pre-emptive steps like anti-sabotage check in cooperation with CISF. To strengthen the security of the Metro stations and to neutralise a terrorist strike, a proposal for Quick Response Teams at different metro stations is also under process, the Committee said. Besides this, process to install CCTV camera at parking lots and other areas of Metro stations has also been initiated. The manpower proposal for the creation of 2,088 posts for eight existing metro stations is part of the 17 proposals sent to Ministry of Finance for approval.

These booths at the metro stations are already in operation at Rajiv Chowk metro station and Chandi Chowk metro station where staff from Metro Police station is being deployed. ”There is also a proposal for creation of six new Metro Police stations for the metro stations coming up in the Phase-III of Delhi Metro. A close coordination with CISF is being maintained by the Delhi Police. Delhi Police presence has been increased at Metro stations,” the report said.

MEGA Metro Scam |Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta gets interim bail

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MEGA Metro Scam |Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta gets interim bail

Ahmedabad: Former IAS officer Sanjay Gupta was today granted interim bail of one week on health grounds by the Gujarat High Court as well as Gandhinagar court in two separate graft cases in connection with Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Metro rail scam. While hearing his bail plea today, HC justice A J Desai granted interim bail to him till December 14. Gupta had sought interim bail on the grounds that he needed urgent medical treatment for his lever-related ailment.

In May this year, Gujarat CID arrested Gupta, who had served as Executive Chairman of state-owned Metro-Link Express for Ahemdabad and Gandhinagar (MEGA) company, alleging that financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 113 crore had taken place during his tenure in MEGA in 2012. CID had booked Gupta and seven others for siphoning off around Rs 113 crore by presenting forged bills and bogus documents related to ground-filling work carried out near Bhat village for Metro project in 2012.

Since Gupta is also a co-accused in another scam of Rs 2.62 crore related to MEGA, Gandhinagar police arrested him yesterday from Sabarmati jail here through transfer warrant. He has been named as an accused in an FIR filed at Sector-7 police station of Gandhinagar. After the high court granted him relief, Gandhinagar police produced him before the local court to seek his remand during evening.

However, Gupta’s lawyers opposed the move and argued that Gupta urgently needs medical attention. They also submitted the high court order and sought similar relief from the Gandhinagar court. After hearing the arguments, Principal District Judge A C Rao also granted him interim bail till December 14. In December last year, a senior official of MEGA had lodged an FIR with Sector-7 police station alleging that the company’s former manager Radhesh Bhatt siphonned off Rs 2.62 crore through forged invoices from 2012 to 2013.

In the course of investigation, police found Gupta’s alleged involvement in the scam and made him a co-accused. Gupta quit IAS in 2003 to start his own business. He runs his hotel business under the banner ‘Neesa Group’. He had also started a Hindi channel called ‘Jano Duniya’ recently but it was closed within a short span. He was appointed to MEGA by Gujarat government after he quit IAS.

Metro Coach Factory |After Bihar, railways plan metro coach unit in West Bengal

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Metro Coach Factory |After Bihar, railways plan metro coach unit in West Bengal

Kolkata: After awarding a Rs 40,000 crore project to Alstom and GE Transport for locomotive projects in Bihar last month, Railways has embarked on a second major initiative.

It is set to open tender for a delayed metro coach factory at Kanchrapara in West Bengal on Thursday, for which global transportation and engineering biggies including Bombardier Transportation, Siemens, Hyundai,Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles of Spain and Alstom had evinced interest.

This time the Railways is offering more amenable terms to attract private players, but it it is not yet known if they are still interested given the time and cost overruns.

Initially, the project was for manufacturing just Electric Multiple Units, or EMU, the technical nomenclature for coaches used in city trains, as per the Request for Qualification floated in October. Now, the joint venture partners would be allowed to manufacture metro coaches as well, sources said.

With this, the number of responses is expected to be higher as the closing date for bid draws near.

As per estimates of National Transport Development Policy Committee, there would be a requirement of 30,000 EMU and MEMU coaches by 2032.

However, metro coaches are more profitable using greater use of material and technologies, sources said.

The Cabinet had approved the project at an estimated cost of Rs 860 crore.
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The cost has now been revised at about Rs 1,000 crore as per the Request for Proposal document, which may again get revised following feedback from the bidders.

The project, which plans to manufacture about 5,000 coaches over 10 years, would be using state-of-the-art propulsion system, using materials like stainless steel and aluminium to build the coaches to ensure energy efficiency and longer life.

This factory at Kanchrapara, located close to Kolkata, would be set up on Railways’s land and site works related to filling of land, widening of roads and provision of power supply is nearing completion which would save significant time for the developers.

The JV partner is to be selected through international competitive bidding and the Railways would hold about 26% of the equity.

Railways last month awarded contracts to global giants Alstom and GE Transport for setting electric and diesel locomotive factories in Marhora and Madhepura in Bihar, marking the first major FDI in rail projects after the limit was raised by the government in select Railways sectors.

The government also expects the Bengal project to attract such marquee names.

“The factory will attract significant FDI apart from creating opportunities for direct and indirect employment. There will be transfer of technology to India to manufacture various equipment including propulsion system,” Railways had said while launching the project.

Noida Metro|Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor will be operational by June 2017

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Noida Metro|Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor will be operational by June 2017

Noida: About 15% of work on the 28.8-km Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor has been completed, the fifth board meeting of the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) was told on Monday.
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NMRC chairperson Alok Ranjan – who is also chief secretary, Uttar Pradesh – convened the meeting also attended by Rama Raman, who is also NMRC’s managing director, and G P Singh, executive director of NMRC, were present. Ranjan expressed satisfaction at the progress of the Metro track and said, “The route will be operational by June 2017.”

The board addressed 22 issues on the agenda.

With the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) having been granted 5% stake in NMRC, the board approved Arun Vir Singh, CEO of YEIDA, as one of the directors of the company. Deepak Agarwal, CEO of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, has also been made a director.

Ranjan also said he was satisfied with the progress of the state-of-the-art bus project. He reviewed the progress of the 100 buses being put on track by March 2016.

The NMRC board finalised that a Metro train will run between Sector 142 and Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The Noida Authority was mulling over bringing a tram service for the route. It also approved the detailed project report (DPR) for the corridor.

According to the DPR, the corridor till Sector 142 will have eight stations – Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Noida sectors 91, 93, 94, 98, 125, 136 and 142. Measuring around 10.92 km, the track is likely to come up at a cost of Rs 2,127 crore. Once in place, the track will bring Noida, Faridabad and Greater Noida closer to Delhi and will improve connectivity within the city.

Delhi Metro|DMRC presents papers on its environmental initiative in COP 21 Summit

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Delhi Metro|DMRC presents papers on its environmental initiative in COP 21 Summit

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in a presentation at the COP 21 environmental summit in Paris demonstrated that it is possible to quantify reduction in coal and fossil fuels while providing world class mass transit services.

According to Sh. Anuj Dayal, Executive Director, Corporate Communications, DMRC, who presented the paper on the subject at the conference, DMRC helps to remove more carbon from the atmosphere then it contributes, making it a completely carbon neutral system.

Sh. Dayal, in his paper, also told that DMRC is the only Metro getting carbon credits for its regenerative braking and modal shift projects.

DMRC also highlighted the manner in which carbon finance could be generated, by the revenue earned from the sale of carbon credits from its two GHG mitigation projects which are the very first of their kind in the world for the transport sector.
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Sh. Dayal said that DMRC has been able to effectively demonstrate the enormous socio-economic co- benefits of a Mass Rapid Transit System. DMRC also plans to tap 50 MW of solar power in next three years, he added.

DMRC has a well laid out Sustainability Plan for the future and the next step is to capture the positive health impacts from DMRC’s operations, given the state of pollution in Delhi, said Sh. Dayal.

Delhi Metro|Delhi Govt’s Odd Even Formula may increase rush in metro

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Delhi Metro|Delhi Govt’s Odd Even Formula may increase rush in metro

New Delhi: In coming days, the ridership in the Delhi Metro is set to increase owing to the Delhi government’s latest pollution control measures.

Although the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation claims that its train continue to run below its capacity, commuters have mostly complained of overcrowding, especially in the busiest lines like Dwarka-Noida/Vaishali and Dilshad garden-Rithala.

From an average ridership of 80,000 per day in 2002 when the Metro was introduced in Delhi, the numbers have drastically risen to 26 lakh per day now. According to officials, in the past five years itself metro’s ridership has increased by a mammoth 156 per cent.
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Reacting to the Delhi government’s comment of asking it to increase the frequency of trains, the DMRC said, “We have already reduced the average frequency of trains from 3.35 minutes to 3.10 minutes by pushing 210 extra trips and adding 20 more trains in the network. Things would clearly ease out once Phase III is operational next year as there would be multiple routes to reach a particular destination. We still would do whatever best is possible,” said a senior official.

Meanwhile, Transport Minister Gopal Rai told reporters that the public transport system would be strengthened by introducing more buses and frequency of Metro trains to accommodate the rush due to its decision.

Mr. Rai said the DMRC and Delhi Traffic Police will be approached in this regard and a strategy worked out early next week. “I have called a meeting with officials from Transport Department, Public Works Department (PWD), Delhi Traffic Police and environment department on how to execute the government’s decision,” Mr. Rai said.

A senior government official said that transport department does not have sufficient staff to execute the new decision on its own and it will approach Traffic Police for cooperation with the government. Sources in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) said that it is difficult for the public-owned bus authority to include more buses in its fleet.

The public transporter is trying to procure around 2,000 new buses for almost two years but to no avail and must contend with its existing fleet of 4,500 buses.

Mitsubishi Electric opens its first transportation-systems factory in Bengaluru

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Mitsubishi Electric opens its first transportation-systems factory in Bengaluru

New Delhi: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced on Friday that its Indian subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India Pvt. Ltd. (MEI) has opened a factory for transportation-systems business in Bidadi, near Bengaluru, India.

Mitsubishi Electric is targeting transportation-systems annual revenue of USD 170 million in India by fiscal 2020, in part by strengthening sales and maintenance services for subways and trains to meet the growing global demand for transportation infrastructure.

In the early 1960s, Mitsubishi Electric began providing Indian customers with electrical products for locomotives. Later, the company has expanded into rolling stock equipment business for metro projects since 2000s, and now it provides about 65 percent traction systems of the nation’s metro rail networks.

The factory will assemble electrical propulsion equipment for rolling stock under a plan to expand Mitsubishi Electric’s transportation-systems business in the Indian market. This is Mitsubishi Electric’s third manufacturing facility in India, following plants for automotive equipment and factory automation products in Gurgaon and Pune, respectively.

The factory, which cost around US$ 8 million, is on a site measuring 4,605 square meters. It can produce traction inverters, motors and other electrical equipment for rolling stock in metro systems across the country. The factory also has facilities for equipment maintenance. Initial staffing totals about 50 people.

Makoto Kitai, managing director of MEI, said: “Our factory can produce and supply state-of-the-art electrical propulsion equipment for rolling stock. By setting up this factory in India, we have demonstrated our commitment to invest, foster innovation, enhance skill development, protect intellectual property and build best-in-class manufacturing infrastructure in India, which we call our ‘Make in India’ initiative.”

Bullet Train Project|Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail project to cost Rs 98,000 crore

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Bullet Train Project|Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail project to cost Rs 98,000 crore

New Delhi: An Indian Railways-Japan International Cooperation Agency feasibility study has concluded that the Mumbai-Ahmedabad 505-km high-speed rail corridor will cost an estimated Rs 98,000 crore. Minister of State for Railways, Manoj Sinha, stated this in a written reply during question hour in Parliament on Wednesday.

Though there is no visibility on when the project will start, it is estimated that trains on this corridor run at a top speed of 320 kmph, reducing commute time between the two cities to less than two hours from the current seven.

The Japanese government has offered a package proposal for the corridor, which involves technical, operation & maintenance (O&M), and financial assistance to the tune of 81 per cent of the project cost, which will be disbursed as a loan. The interest and other terms have not been finalised, a government statement said.

The ambitious project requires 11 new tunnels, including one under the sea near Mumbai.

It is expected to start at Bandra Kurla Complex, while the Ahmedabad point has not been decided.

In September, China had won the contract to assess the feasibility of a 1200-km high-speed rail corridor between Delhi and Mumbai, a project that is expected to cost at least twice as much. No loan has been offered so far on the Delhi-Mumbai corridor.

These two projects are part of the ‘Diamond Quadrilateral’ of high speed trains, with over 10,000 km of tracks connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.

Recently, Japan agreed to fund Rs 1,069 crore for the Chennai Metro Rail and Rs 4,410 crore for Ahmedabad Metro Rail, adding momentum to the bilateral ties between India and Japan.

“With overall consensus and popular support for greater cooperation between India and Japan, the partnership is poised for a great future,” said a government statement.

Chennai Metro| Recruitment of Section Engineer (Civil)

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Chennai Metro| Recruitment of Section Engineer (Civil)

Chennai Metro Rail Limited, entrusted with the implementation of Chennai Metro Rail Project, requires efficient, experienced and competent officials for the post mentioned below on Contract basis for a period of 3 years. The contract period may be extended for further period upto one year based on project requirement and performance of the individual.

Name of Post: Section Engineer (Civil-AutoCAD) – 01 post
Salary: Pay Scale :Rs.16000-30770/- (IDA)

Persons with requisite experience and qualification alone need apply. Age may be relaxed for experienced candidates. The number of vacancy indicated above may increase or decrease based on the requirement of the project. The engagement shall be purely on temporary and contract basis.

Applications must reach to GM (HR) at the below mentioned address on or before 18-12-2015.

General Manager (HR),
Chennai Metro Rail Limited,
Admin Building, CMRL Depot,
Poonamallee High Road,
Koyambedu, Chennai – 600107

GM (HR) can be reached at email ID “gmhr.cmrl@tn.gov.in”

For details regarding qualification, experience, general conditions, application format etc., please visit CMRL’s official website www.chennaimetrorail.gov.in

Nagpur Metro|312 trees to be cut for metro rail’s first phase

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Nagpur Metro|312 trees to be cut for metro rail’s first phase

Nagpur: It is truly said that development comes at a price. For the city’s ambitious metro rail project, over 300 trees will be chopped off during the first phase.

According to the Detailed Project Report (DPR), the proposed length of Nagpur metro is 38.2 kilometre and the work will be conducted in two phases. The first phase would pass from Sitabuldi to Mihan via airport while the second would be from Sitabuldi to Automative Square in Kamptee Road and Lokmanya Nagar near Hingna to Prajapati Nagar near Wardhaman Nagar. The first phase of 25 kilometre would incur an expenditure of Rs4,400 crore while the second one of 20 kilometre would require Rs3,800 crore.

The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL)’s deputy general manager and public relations officer (PRO) Shirish Apte said that in the first phase, the at grade stretch (ground level) of metro will be around 5.6 kilometres long, starting from Mihan depot and meeting Wardha Road between new airport metro and airport metro station.

After a joint survey conducted by NMRCL and Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) garden department, 312 trees have been identified for felling along the at grade stretch. “Trees coming in the way of metro route have been marked and we have taken permission from the NMC’s garden department to cut them. We have also deposited around Rs25 lakh with the department as security amount,” said Apte.

Confirming the development, NMC garden inspector Amol Chorpagar said that NMRCL would have to carry out about 1,560 compensatory plantations as per 1:5 ratio. “The deposited amount will only be returned after the plantations are done and survived for at least three years,” he added.

Apte said that they are planning to do plantations at the metro depot area in Khapri. “We are also in the process of identifying more vacant areas for doing compensatory plantations after which we will start the work. Experts will be consulted regarding which species to be planted how to ensure high survival rate,” he said. He added that some trees will also be felled in the second phase of the metro rail project. “Though the second phase has elevated metro corridor, trees on the border would need to be cut. For that, we will again plan a joint survey,” said Apte.

NMRCL has got permission to cut 312 trees for the first phase of Nagpur metro rail project.

Trees will be cut at the 5.6 kilometres long at grade stretch (ground level) which is starting from Mihan depot and meeting Wardha Road between new airport metro and airport metro station.

NMRCL official said they have deposited Rs25 lakh with NMC garden department as security amount

NMRCL would have to carry out about 1,560 compensatory plantations

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