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Lucknow Metro|Lack of funds should not impede construction of metro project

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Lucknow Metro|Lack of funds should not impede construction of metro project

Lucknow: The chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Alok Ranjan has said that Lucknow Metro rail is an ambitious project of the state government and any delinquency in its implementation would not be pardoned. He directed the department of housing and urban planning to take immediate action on proposals received from different government and semi-government departments for providing the land to LMRC for metro construction.

He asked the LMRC (Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation) officials about the requirement of funds and said that lack of funds should not impede construction of Lucknow Metro rail project. He directed the Housing Development Board, Lucknow Development Authority and UP State Industrial Development Corporation to immediately provide the remaining amount of FY 2014-15 for development of metro rail to LMRC along with contribution specified for FY 2015-16. The state government has recently sanctioned around Rs 100 crore to the project.

He directed that in view of problems being faced by metro officials while purchasing of private land through negotiations for stations and other purposes for Lucknow Metro Rail project, the committee formed under divisional commissioner, Lucknow should meet immediately to resolve the issues and take effective action to make the land available to Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation. The chief secretary was reviewing the progress of Lucknow Metro Rail project on July 27.
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Managing Director, LMRC Kumar Keshav informed the chief secretary that the progress on primary section of metro rail from Charbagh to Transport Nagar (about 8km) has been satisfactory and according to the key dates fixed for completion of works by December 2016. The meeting was attended by secretary, Housing and Urban Planning, Pandhari Yadav, Managing Director, LMRC Kumar Keshav along with other senior officials.

Chennai Metro|One injured at Chennai Metro Rail site

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Chennai: A Metro Rail crane operator suffered 50 per cent burns after the crane he was working on touched a live wire near the St Thomas Mount Station on Saturday. The Metro Rail stretch between Alandur and Airport has been accident-prone.

Recounting the incident, Manoj, a Metro Rail worker, said he along with his colleague Munna got into the boom of the crane to plug the gaps on the elevated stretch near St Thomas Mount station.

“It was around 10.30 am and crane operator Umapathy moved the boom after we had finished the work to another place. As he was moving the boom, it came in contact with a live electrical wire. There were sparks. We found ourselves being lifted in the air and we blacked out,” recalled a shocked Manoj from Aurangabad.

It was plywood that saved the lives of Manoj and Munna, from Bihar. But Umapathy, from Uttar Padesh who has three years of experience as crane operator, was not that lucky. The impact of the boom coming in contact with 25 kv AC live wire was such that not only was the crane electrocuted but also the road below. Umapathy suffered 50 per cent burns on both his legs and is now under treatment in Balaji hospital.Manoj said he and Munna were lying unconscious in the boom for nearly 20 minutes after which fire-fighters rescued them.

“While coming down, we were shocked to see the extensive damage. I would have never gone up if I had known that there was a live wire above,” he said.

A senior Chennai Metro Rail official said the incident was due to a safety lapse. “We will be conducting an enquiry as well as a safety audit of the work site. It would have been due to a failure on the part of one individual,” the official said.

Although the Larsen and Toubro contractor at the site refused to comment on the incident, sources said it was the firm’s lapse. The failure was in not ensuring that the electrification of the stretch between Alandur to OTA was shutdown while the work was being done.
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“It was putting the lives of the workers at risk. They should have ensured that it was safe to do the necessary work,” said an engineer at the site.

Nagpur Metro|BJP MLC urges Maha CM to expedite the Nagpur Metro Rail project

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Nagpur Metro|BJP MLC urges Maha CM to expedite the Nagpur Metro Rail project

Nagpur: BJP MLC Anil Sole has urged chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to expedite the metro rail project by clearing proposals at state government level. He met the CM on Sunday and urged him to hold meetings in this regard as early as possible.

The memorandum submitted by the MLC states that land required by Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL) has not been handed over to it. There were some issues pertaining to urban development department (UDD) that needed to be sorted out. Similarly, the funds sanctioned under 2015-16 state budget were yet to reach the corporation. CM Fadnavis assured Sole he would complete the necessary formalities at the earliest.

Right now, NMRCL needs land belonging to Special Reserve Police Force (SRPF) at Hingna for constructing a metro rail depot. Even though the home portfolio is with the CM, the formalities related to hand over have not been completed.

UDD is yet to clear the proposal of Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) to increase the floor to space index (FSI) along the metro corridor. NMRCL, NIT and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will collect premium by selling the extra FSI. This revenue is important for funding the project as well as meeting its operating cost. The urban development portfolio is also with the CM.
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Lucknow Metro|Lucknow Metro Rail project yet to get clearance from Public Investment Board

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Lucknow Metro|Lucknow Metro Rail project yet to get clearance from Public Investment Board

Lucknow: With the Lucknow Metro Rail project yet to get clearance from Union Ministry of Finance’s Public Investment Board (PIB), the state government has decided to complete the first stretch of the work with its own resources in order to meet the deadline of December next year — UP will go to polls in 2017.

Officials said the government will spend around Rs 2,000 crore from the state exchequer to complete the 8.3-km priority section stretch from Transport Nagar to Charbagh. This Rs 2,000 crore will be a part of the state’s share of the total project cost — worth Rs 6,880 crore — for the entire North-South corridor from Amausi to Munshipulia.

The decision is likely to mount pressure on the Centre to ensure that PIB clearance is issued at the earliest to ensure that UP cannot blame the Union government for any delay in the implementation of the project.

The Metro project is being projected as the lifeline Lucknow — Lok Sabha constituency of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. While the Centre has to bear 20 per cent of the total project cost, UP will pay around 27 per cent while the rest of the funding will come in the form of loans from various agencies.

However, neither the Centre can release its share, nor the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) — the project’s executing agency — could seek loan until it has been approved by PIB.
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The PIB, for this project, has been formed under the chairmanship of Secretary (Expenditure) of Union Ministry of Finance.

The first meeting of PIB for the project was held in August last year. The Centre had allocated Rs 50 crore for the project in the Budget for 2014-15. But that fund could not be released in the absence of the PIB’s clearance. In the current financial year, Centre allocated Rs 173 crore but even that is awaiting PIB’s clearance. The next meeting of the Board is scheduled on August 6 in Delhi and the state government officials are expecting to get the clearance then.

However, sources said that even after the PIB’s clearance, it will take another two to three months for the state to actually get the Centre’s share of funds and loan from other agencies.

“We are hopeful to the get PIB nod in the next meeting,” said Kumar Keshav, Managing Director of LMRC. Keshav added that the state government has given a commitment to complete the first 8.3-km stretch of the project from its own resources so that a trial run could begin by December 2016.

Construction work on the first stretch of the project had started in September 2014. The state government had provided Rs 20 crore for the project in 2013-14, Rs 90 core in 2014-15 and Rs 425 crore is required in the current financial year.

Out of the assured Rs 425 crore, LMRC has so far reportedly received Rs 100 crore from the UP government. Transfer of the remaining fund from agencies such as UP Housing and Development Board, Lucknow Development Authority and UPSIDC is in the process.

Delhi Metro|140% rise in crime in Delhi Metro in a year

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New Delhi: There has been a rise of 140 per cent in the number of crimes including theft and pick-pocketing in Delhi Metro’s jurisdiction in NCR from 2013 to 2014.

In a reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said that “Metro is running with maximum capacity most of the time. The crime such as picking pockets, mobile theft, etc have increased with the increase in the ridership.”

“The ridership of Delhi Metro has risen to 2.6 million,” he told the Upper ouse

While 962 crimes were committed in Delhi-NCR areas under the jurisdiction of the metro in the year 2013, the figure rose to 2,309 within a year. The number of crimes has already touched 1,769 by June in 2015.

He said that there were eight Metro police stations in Delhi at Kashmere Gate, Shastri Park, Rithala, Raja Garden, Qutab Minar, Yamuna Bank, Kalkaji Mandir and IGIA. The corresponding figure for Gurgaon and Noida are one and three respectively.

“52 women personnel of Delhi Police have been deployed at the metro stations as well as in the metro rails,” he said.

Delhi Metro|DMRC tokens to be made available for micro advertising

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Delhi Metro|DMRC tokens to be made available for micro advertising

New Delhi: Delhi Metro tokens would soon be wrapped by micro advertisements, a move aimed at augmenting revenue by tapping the nearly eight-lakh-strong commuter base who use the circular coins.

While about 70 per cent commuters travel using smart cards as per Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) data, the rest, primarily visitors to the national capital, are dependent on tokens. Nearly 16,000 smart cards are sold every day from stations across the network.

Explaining the logic behind the step, DMRC officials said that on an average a token is circulated in three different hands within a day, thus providing “repetitive visibility” to different persons in different sections of the network.

“Moreover, tokens are mostly used by new travellers to Delhi. Hence, advertisement on tokens provide an attractive destination to the advertisers for wide publicity,” DMRC chief spokesman Anuj Dayal said.

The tokens, with an average diameter of 30 mm, provide printable space for advertisement at the centre with diameter of 25 mm, which can be viewed from both sides.

“This printable space shall be licensed to selected bidder for advertisement of its artwork in pursuant to bidding process,” the Request For Proposal (RFP) said.

Last December, the metro had leased out the outdoor bodies of its coaches to agencies, following which fully ad-wrapped trains were introduced on the network’s busiest corridors, namely Yellow and Blue lines.
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Delhi Metro|All upcoming phase-III metro stations to have toilate facilty

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Delhi Metro|All upcoming phase-III metro stations to have toilate facilty

New Delhi: All upcoming metro stations including 32 of them under the Delhi Metro will have toilets, Rajya Sabha was informed today.
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Direction has been issued to all metro companies implementing metro projects under 50:50 joint venture partnership between the Centre and respective state and Union Territory (UT) governments to provide toilets in the paid areas of all proposed metro stations, Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in a written reply.

He said all stations of metro projects being implemented under equal joint venture partnership between the Centre and respective state and UT governments have toilets in the paid and unpaid areas. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has informed that 32 of its upcoming stations under the Phase-III project in Delhi will have toilets in the paid area. Naidu further said there are no separate funds earmarked for construction of toilets at metro stations. Toilets are an integral part of the station design and the cost of construction of toilets is part of the project cost.

Nagpur Metro|Metro rail project workers living on the road

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Nagpur Metro|Metro rail project workers living on the road

Nagpur: It seems Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL) is not taking safety at its work sites seriously. The labourers engaged in the ongoing geotechnical investigation for Nagpur Metro are sleeping in makeshift tents pitched on the road, right where they are digging holes. They are at high risk of getting mowed down by a speeding vehicle that does not notice the diversion.

TOI team visited a Wardhaman Nagar site on Thursday, where the soil testing work was being conducted at various spots. An interaction with the labourers revealed that they have not been provided any accommodation facility by the contractor.

At one of the digging spots, around ten labourers from Uttar Pradesh and other states were cramped in a small tent with all their belongings, including clothes, utensils and sleeping mattresses. Adding to the risk, proper reflective radium tapes had not been put up to denote the obstruction on the road. Simple blue plastic drums were acting as barricades.

Light Metro Project|Decision on Light Metro for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode

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Light Metro Project|Decision on Light Metro for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode

Thiruvananthapuram: The Cabinet is to take a call on the Rs.6,728-crore Light Metro proposed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode on Wednesday.

The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Light Metro, in 35.12 km in the two cities, submitted by the DMRC on October 8, will come up before the Cabinet for the mandatory clearance, official sources told The Hindu.

State Planning Board Member and Principal Adviser, DMRC, E.
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Sreedharan, who mooted the MRTS instead of the scrapped monorail, arrived in the capital on Tuesday night for consultations.

Mr. Sreedharan reached the capital after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that he wanted to meet him ahead of the Cabinet meeting. As the Assembly is in session, the meeting will take place either at the Cliff House on Wednesday morning or at the legislature complex. The Cabinet will meet in the evening. Although the Light Metro figured in the agenda for the Cabinet meeting on July 15, it was deferred in the last minute.

Top officials of the PWD and Kerala Rapid Transit Corporation Ltd., the SPV set up under the PWD to execute the project, had a meeting with Minister for Public Works V.K. Ebrahim Kunju on Tuesday night and discussed the project.

The PWD has overruled the objections of the State Planning Board and the Finance Department and has recommended that the DMRC should be entrusted with the Light Metro on turn-key basis. The PWD has listed various funding options mooted by the DMRC in the DPR for the project along with Mr. Sreedharan’s proposal to secure STEP loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency .

The State Planning Board and Finance Department had mooted PPP mode instead of turn-key basis suggested by DMRC as in Kochi Metro. The Finance Department has asked the PWD to float global tenders.

Chennai Metro|Rain exposes poor Metro Rail building construction work

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Chennai: Just a month after launch, poor quality of work at the Chennai Metro Rail stations has been exposed, with the roofs leaking and platforms flooded with water following heavy rain.

Commuters who travelled through Koyambedu and CMBT stations on Wednesday had to carefully tread on the granite flooring and staircases filled with pool of water at various places. For a brief period, one of the escalators in Koyambedu station stopped working.

The staff at CMBT Metro Rail station had placed buckets at the concourse level to collect water leaking from the roof. Commuters were clearly disappointed at the dismal state of stations, What is worse is that it was just 3 centimetres of rainfall (in Nungambakkam and 2 cm in Meenambakkam).

S. Gopalakrishnan, a first time rider of Chennai Metro Rail, looked at the leaking roofs in disbelief.

“I knew the traffic would grow worse during rain and hence chose to take Metro Rail to Alandur. I was quite eager to travel since it is my first ride; but I’m quite disappointed with the standard. A recently inaugurated building cannot afford to have leaking roofs. This place looks similar to the Chennai airport that had similar problems,” he added.
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G.K. Dinakaran said he didn’t expect the stations to have buckets to collect leaking water.

“The floor is slippery in many places and it is difficult to spot pools of water on the granite flooring. Elderly persons may have to be careful or else they may slip and fall,” he added.

Officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited said they had deployed staff to clean the stations. “Also, we are taking steps to remove the water in stations. The problem will be sorted out soon,” an official said.

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