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Mumbai Metro|MMRDA finalise plan for 118-km metro rail network in Mumbai

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Mumbai: In what could change the way Mumbaiites travel, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has finalised an ambitious plan to build a Metro network with lines that cover 118km across the city. The plan, which has been put on the table after updating the original Metro master plan, includes for new Metro lines in addition to the proposed Metro 3 (Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ) and Metro 4 (Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane- Kasarvadavli). Both Metro 3 and Metro 4 already have state government approval.

The four new lines that have been proposed are Mankhurd-Bandra-Kurla Complex (12km), DN Nagar- Dahisar (18km), Andheri East-Dahisar East (17km) and JVLR-Kanjurmarg (12km).

The MMRDA is expected to submit the revised master plan to the state government on August 20 during the meeting of its governing authority headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Besides that, a detailed plan of two of the new lines – Andheri East-Dahisar East and DN Nagar- Dahisar – will also be submitted for approval. The detailed project report (DPR) for these two lines has been prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

“We are going to seek approval for the revised plan of 118-km metro network, as well as Andheri East- Dahisar East metro line in the meeting. If the DPR for DN Nagar-Dahisar line is received in the next few days, it will also be put before the authority,” said Sanjay Sethi, MMRDA additional commissioner.

Of the four proposed lines, the JVLR-Kanjurmarg line will be built along the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR). It will be linked to Metro 3 at SEEPZ. The Metro 3 is being developed by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation with financial assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency.

The Metro 4 (Wadala- Ghatkopar-Thane- Kasarvadavli) line will have an underground line from Wadala to Kapurbawdi, while the rest of the stretch till Kasarvadavli (in Thane) is proposed to be elevated.

MMRDA is planning to develop all future Metro lines on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode, commonly known as the cash-contract system.

“We are going to build these lines on EPC mode, in which we will seek financial assistance from funding agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, etc,” Sethi said.

The state is expected to incur expenses of about Rs 64,000 crore to develop the city’s Metro network by 2020.
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Mumabi Metro|DPR for Andheri-Dahisar Metro has pegged the project cost at Rs 5,757 crore

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New Delhi: The detailed project report (DPR) prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the Andheri-Dahisar Metro has pegged the project cost at Rs 5,757 crore. The project is expected to take at least four and a half years to complete.
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The 16.5km corridor will run along the Western Express Highway, one of the busiest road stretches in the city. The Andheri-Dahisar line will have connectivity with the existing Line 1 and the proposed JVLR-Kanjurmarg line.

MMRDA’s additional commissioner Sanjay Sethi said, “As per the DPR, there will be 16 stations on the corridor (translates into one station per km).” The depot is being planned on Airports Authority of India (AAI) land at Dahisar.

The DPR will be put before the MMRDA committee on August 20. This corridor and the ones from DN Nagar to Dahisar, BKC to Mankhurd and Jogeshwari to Kanjurmarg combined will be 118km. All these corridors will be elevated.

Sethi said the project will be executed on cash contract. “We will be approaching multi-lateral agencies like Asian Development Bank and World Bank for loan.”

The DPR did not touch upon the interchange facility of the network with the suburban rail corridor that runs parallel. The DPR is being updated for other transport corridors originally proposed by the MMRDA, including an elevated bus rapid transport system (BRTS) along WEH from Kalanagar in Bandra (East) to Dahisar. The project was dropped because of the state government’s preference to build an elevated Metro corridor between Dahisar and Andheri-Bandra.

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Kanpur Metro|RITES submits DPR to Kanpur Development Authority

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Kanpur: Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) has submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Metro rail project in Kanpur to the Kanpur Development Authority (KDA). The agency had been asked to submit its report by June, but it was delayed by one month due to soil testing reports and some incomplete information from KDA. Now, the KDA is examining the report submitted to it a couple of days back and is gearing up for consultations with other stake-holders for consensus on DPR.

In fact, the report presented by RITES is not final. KDA would seek objections from other departments and make some suggestions. Thereafter, the suggestions would be incorporated by RITES and only then a final report would be made. Copies of the DPR draft have been sent to the KDA, Jal Nigam, divisional commissioner, district magistrate and Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) to study and examine it and give their suggestions.

The DPR submitted by RITES is for two routes.
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As per plan, in the first phase there would be two routes. One is from IIT to Naubasta and is 25-km-long while the second one is 10-km-long and is from Chandra Shekher Azad University for Agriculture to Barra. According to sources, the cost of IIT to Naubasta route as around Rs 9,500 crore and the Metro would be underground in half of the route while the other half would be elevated. The proposed route would begin from IIT and would pass through Kalyanpur, Rawatpur, Mall Road, Phoolbagh, Kanpur Central Station, Jhakarkati Bus Terminal, Transport Nagar, Bara Devi, Kidwai Nagar and Naubasta.

Another link route would pass through Harsh Nagar, Chunniganj Parade , Bada Chauraha and Central Station. The second route would begin from CSA and would pass from GSVM Medical College, Fazalganj, Vijay Nagar, Govind Nagar to Barra-7. RITES had done soil testing at 50 points and had collected techno-feasibility report.

According to KDA vice-chairman Jaishree Bhoj, “The draft prepared by RITES has been received and KDA is discussing and examining it. Copies of the draft had been sent to other departments and it there is any objection, it would be attended to and after that the draft would be sent to the state government for approval.” KDA is planning parking lot and market space in most of the stations, she added.

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The main corridor is to be 25 km. The proposed Metro Rail route includes IIT, Rawatpur, Bada Chauraha, Motimahal,Kanpur Central, Jhakarkati Bus Termnial and Naubasta. According to the plan, the metro route would begin from IIT Kalyanpur- Rawatpur, Mall Road, Phoolbagh, Kanpur Central Station, bus terminal of Jhakarkati- Kidwai Nagar – via Transport Nagar crossing- to Naubasta.On this route, 17 km track would be elevated and left 8 km would be underground. From IIT to Harsh Nagar, the route shall be elevated and from Chunniganj to Jhakarkatti via Parade, Bada Chauraha and Central Station the route will be underground.From Transport Nagar to Naubasta the track will be elevated. A 10-km secondary corridor with 8 stations is also being though of. It would begin from Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University via GSVM Government Medical College- via Govind Nagar Road- Fazalganj Chouraha to Vijay Nagar crossing to Barra 7 via Barra Road.From CSA to Double Pulia via Kakadev and Rawatpur Station, the route will be underground while from Double Pulia to Barra 7 the route will be elevated.

According to KDA, the DPR will be sent to state government for approval and further to central government for final approval. If the latter is approved the work would be started by January, 2016. RITES has already done the soil testing in Gooba Gardens neighbourhood of Kalyanpur sub city followed by Rawatpur and other 8 places. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced the date of 15th August, 2015 to officially approve the project.

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Namma Metro|BMRC to complete phase-I by March 2016

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Bangalore: With the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) directly monitoring the progress of Bangalore Metro, Chief Secretary Kaushik Mukherjee has asked the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) MD Pradeep Singh Kharola to stick to the timelines and complete the 42-km phase I by March next.
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“We are already two years behind the schedule and we have committed to the PMO that phase I will be ready by March 2016. I have told Kharola that his life depends on it,” Mukherjee told Media. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had, in June, said the first phase will complete by March.

Namma Metro is one of the six projects monitored by Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the Pro-Active Gover nance and Timely Implementation (PRAGATI) platform. The phase I of the project has seen many postponements of deadlines and the state government has come under increased pressure as the PMO will flag questions to the chief secretary on the project’s progress. The Centre has invested a half of the equity in the project and the Union Urban Development Secretary is the chairman of the corporation.

Mukherjee reviewed the project recently . Only 19.1 km of the total 42-km network of phase I is operational along the purple (east-west) and green (north-south) corridors.

“We always compare it with the Delhi Metro. Here, we are sitting on hard rock. Our people underestimated the underground portions. The tunnel boring machines were not able to cut through as expected.Another advantage Delhi had was wide roads,” Mukherjee said.

‘PHASE II BY 2020’

The second phase of Namma Metro, a 72-km network that connects the IT cor ridors of Whitefield and Electronics City , will take five years to be ready .

“The land acquisition process is underway for phase II. By 2020, the entire phase will be complete,” Mukherjee said. This is a renewed deadline as Siddaramaiah told the Legislative Assembly last year that phase II would be ready by 2019.

Phase II will connect Byappanahalli to IPTB-Whitefield, Mysuru Road to Kengeri, Hesaraghatta to BIEC, Puttenahalli cross to Anjanapura, Gottigere-IIMB-Nagavara and RV Road to Bommasandra at a cost of ‘26,405.14 crore.

Kharola confirmed that the PMO had set March 2016 as the deadline to finish land acquisition for phase II, while the same has been set for finishing phase I.

A proposal to connect Nagawara to the Kempegowda International Airport is before the government.”This is under phase III. As it looks now, we cannot have a metro line going on the same alignment as the elevated road. I think it is very immature to talk about this right now,” he said.

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Delhi Metro|DMRC organises puppet shows on Delhi Metro for school children

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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is organising ‘Puppet shows’ at schools to spread awareness about travelling etiquettes in Delhi Metro among school children. It is an initiative to inculcate good manners and etiquettes among the children and create disciplined Metro commuters for the future.

Puppeteers from `Katputli Colony’ in north Delhi perform these shows. In this initiative – Enactus, an international non-profit organization of students based at Shri Ram College of Commerce has also helped DMRC.

The duration of each puppet show is 15 minutes and these shows are organized free of cost for schools located in Delhi/NCR.

The puppet show recordings are already uploaded on YouTube at link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKoEyODLN0

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Vijayawada Metro|DMRC finalises metro rail station design

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Vijayawada: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has approved designs for main station for metro rail in the city. A ground plus four building will come up near Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS).

The first floor of the building will be used for elevated corridor of the metro rail. A track would pass through the first floor, while station would be constructed at second floor. Third and fourth floors would be used for administrative offices. A roof top food court would come at the building.

The DMRC also planned a sky walk from the PNBS to the metro station to facilitate movement of passengers from bus station to metro station.
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The cost of this building is not known.

The first phase of Vijayawada Metro Rail project, estimated to cost Rs. 6,823 crore. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Principal Advisor and Advisor to A.P. government on metro rail projects, E. Sreedharan submitted the Detailed Project Report (DPR) on the Metro Rail project which includes two corridors.

The total length covered by the two corridors would be 26.03 km and the cost per km works out to Rs.209 crore, according to the DPR. While Corridor 1 between Pandit Nehru Bus Terminal and Penamaluru covers a distance of 12.76 km, Corridor 2 (Pandit Nehru Bus Terminal-Nidamanuru) covers 13.27 km.

The first phase of Vijayawada Metro Rail project, estimated to cost Rs. 6,823 crore.

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Hyderabad Metro|Metro Rail project may cost an additional Rs700cr

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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail realignment may cost an additional Rs 700 crore. The major cost increase will result from realigning Route No. 2 that leads through the Old City. The realignment will increase the route by 3.5 km. However, the realignment on Route No. 1, near the legislative assembly, might lead to a reduction of 100 metres in length.

Although there might be some cost reductions here, the realignment may lead to the destruction of the Public Gardens, an old landmark of Hyderabad. The realignment on this route is to protect another landmark building – the state assembly.

The technical feasibility for the realignment has been presented to the state government by the concessionaire Larsen & Toubro many weeks ago, but the powers-that-be are yet to take a view on the report. Only after the government approves the technical feasibility report will L&T come up with the detailed cost estimates. However, at present rates, each kilometer of Metro Rail costs Rs 200 crore.

Public analysts say that the government might find it difficult to fork out the additional costs of realignment — which will be substantial. Because the major cost increase will be on Route No. 3, these analysts apprehend that the Old City section of the Metro Rail may be abandoned. Route No. 2 starts from Jubilee Bus Stand and ends at Falaknuma. The realignment is proposed near Charminar and the route under the realigned proposal will go over the Musi.

Meanwhile, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s announcement that he wants to demolish Osmania General Hospital’s main building has sparked off a public debate. Although Chandrasekhar Rao has cited poor structural condition of the hospital building, many public analysts have other apprehensions. Since two lines of the Metro rail — Route No. 1 (from Miyapur to Nagole) and Route No. 2 — intersect close to the Osmania Medical College (OMC), the averment is that the chief minister’s intent has something to do with the Metro.

The OMC is just two kilometers from OGH, which sits on 26 acres of land part of which has been encroached upon. Public analysts perceive that the land freed from the demolition of OGH might be used to generate revenues that might help finance the additional cost of Metro Rail, post realignment.

This perception, however, might be without basis. Chief Secretary of Telangana Rajiv Sharma, when quizzed, said, “I can tell you categorically that there is no Metro Rail connection with Osmania General Hospital.” L&T Metro Rail managing director VB Gadgil was even stronger in his response. “Where did you pick this up from? What may happen to OGH has nothing to do with Metro Rail,” he asserted. “Earlier we had wanted land there. But we were given compensatory land in Raidurgam. So we don’t want land there at all,” he added.

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Delhi Metro|DMRC parking lots to remain closed due to Independence day security

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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) released a public notice that parking facilities will not be available at the Delhi Metro stations from 6:00 AM on Friday i.e, 14th August, 2015 till 2:00 PM on Saturday i.e, 15th August, 2015 in view of the security measures adopted on the occasion of Independence Day.

The Delhi Metro has instructed all the parking contractors to use this opportunity for cleaning all the parking lots thoroughly in the spirit of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and will also depute its officials to inspect the parking sites for strict compliance.

Besides maintaining physical cleaning of the premises / structures at all times, each and every staff including contractor’s staff is being counselled to inculcate attitudinal change on this aspect.
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Cleanliness of the associated areas is also on everyone’s minds to achieve the objectives of the campaign. During this campaign the main focus area will be –

  • Removal of unauthorized posters/graffiti from piers/walls of the stations.
  • White washing and sprucing up of stations is being done in phases.
  • Emailing photographs of unauthorized parking/encroachments to Delhi Traffic Police
  • Stress given on mechanized cleaning at stations.
  • Stress given to clean inaccessible areas beside accessible areas at stations
  • Toilets at many Metro stations have been renovated and periodic inspection is done by the staff to ensure that the contractor is running them in the best condition.
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Delhi Metro|NHRC sends notice to DMRC over labourer’s death at metro site

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New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) over reports of a labourer’s death and injuries to another due to negligence.

Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report that a labourer, Vijay Kumar, died and another was injured when a huge cement slab, weighing about three tonnes, fell on them in a tunnel at an under construction Metro site in West Delhi, the Commission has observed that the incident, if true, raises questions regarding violation of human rights of the labourers.

“When the work involved is of such a hazardous nature, safety measures have to be strictly followed and safety of the labourers and other persons working at the site has to be ensured,” said NHRC which issued a notice to the Managing Director of DMRC seeking report on the matter in four weeks.

According to a media report, the incident happened on July 29. The two labourers were rushed to nearby Bhagatchandra Hospital where Vijay Kumar (26) was declared brought dead while Jai Prakash (35) was treated for injuries and discharged the same day.
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The DMRC had outsourced the construction work to a company HCC-Samsung.

The police has already registered a case of causing death by negligence against the contractor.

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SmartRail Asia Congress & Expo|Nov. 25-27, 2015|Bangkok, Thailand

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