Pune Metro: State-appointed panel for Pune Metro may follow DMRC Report

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Pune: It is the practicality of the current situation that may keep Pune’s metro above the ground. Amid a chorus for an underground Vanaz to Ramwadi corridor, the state-appointed committee on Pune metro is inclined to take forward the project based on Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) report.

The hurdles and subsequent time it would take to prepare a new plan would be a setback and derail the project from the central government’s radar and other cities may win the race for central funds.

Earlier this month, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had announced a committee to look into an alternative alignment for the Vanaz-Ramwadi route — the second corridor. The committee has to submit its report by the second week of April.

Committee chairman and guardian minister Girish Bapat said the committee has met several times and is in the final stages of preparing a draft to submit to the state. “Once the report is submitted to the state government, we will announce the committee’s recommendations,” said Bapat He did not elaborate.

However, state government sources and senior members of the committee told that most of the committee members agreed that the Pune metro project must not be delayed any further.

“There is a demand for an underground metro.
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But if this demand is accepted, a new Detailed Project Report (DPR) would be required. Also the state and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will have to shoulder the additional financial burden for an underground metro. The committee is inclined to take forward the project based on DMRC report which recommends an elevated metro. Let the DMRC report be submitted to the central government and then we can always make some changes,” a senior committee member requesting anonymity, said.

A new DPR will take another three-four years and by the time Pune gets one, other cities will run away with a big chunk of central funds, he added.

The panel is working on financial details. Economist Vijay Kelkar, a committee member, will meet other members this week. “We need to discuss financial details of the elevated and underground metro with Kelkar. The report will be completed once he gives his observations,” said a committee member.

Fadnavis has already announced that the state government will immediately approve and start building corridor I of the metro, which would connect Pimpri Chinchwad and Swargate.

The committee, under the guardian minister, was to study an alternative alignment for the corridor between Vanaz and Ramwadi. Some civic groups and organizations want this corridor to be built underground.

“The state government will have to redo the entire DPR. The surveys incorporated in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) report are based on the 1997 report submitted by RITES. There is no scientific background to the DPR and the state government must not start work on any corridor without a detailed study. It would be a waste of the taxpayers’ money,” said urban planner Aneeta Gokhale Benninger.

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Delhi Metro: Real estate firm awarded for naming & marketing rights for two metro stations

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New Delhi: Real estate firm Wave Infratech has won the naming and marketing rights for Noida Sector 18 and Noida City Centre metro stations for next 10 years.

This is the first time that such a concept is being adopted in India and Wave Infratech is the first company to have been awarded the rights for two popular metro stations.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Wave Infratech the naming rights for two prominent stations — Noida City Centre and Noida Sector 18 – along with exclusive marketing rights of media space for 10 years, the real estate firm said in a statement.

“With this, the foot-hold of the company in Noida will get stronger, and would assist in ramping up our brand recall with the opportunities that DMRC offers,” Wave Infratech Executive Director (Marketing) Amar Sinha said.

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Lucknow Metro: Lucknow Development Authority mad nodal agency for providing land for LMRC

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Lucknow: Chief Secretary of UP Govt has issued orders to LDA to facilitate in providing land to the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) on a lease period of 90 years for building corridor, stations and other metro related infrastructure. He said all necessary proceedings should be initiated for transfer of land to LMRC. “All necessary clearances should be availed from the forest department on priority basis”, he added.

He was reviewing metro project and found the construction pace to be satisfactory. He asked the UPSRTC officials to immediately transfer its land to metro for building of Alambagh metro station and also arrangements should be made for signing of an MOU between UPSRTC and LMRC.

Considering the difficulties to be faced by residents while travelling to the airport during metro construction, chief secretary Alok Ranjan has directed PWD to strengthen alternative routes before monsoon begins so that traffic can be accordingly diverted from Kanpur Road during metro construction.
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The DM was instructed to provide partial land of Krishna Nagar police station to LMRC for constructing the metro station. He also directed the home department to immediately issue clearances for the above transfer. LMRC officials said that tenders for remaining stretch of N-S corridor would be floated simultaneously along with the priority section. Work around airport corridor is expected to begin in a month’s time, subject to AAI’s nod.

Meanwhile LMRC has requested AAI to grant its land for casting yard and other projects on Chennai Metro’s model where Metro Corporation has been given the land at a token amount of Rs 1 per annum on a lease period of 30 years.

This is given on a condition that metro has to share advertisement revenue on airport’s land with the AAI. LMRC said AAI has given verbal consent to this deal but is yet to be formalised.

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MoUD all set to clear metro rail projects in nine cities

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01/04/2015

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New Delhi: In an attempt to provide hassle-free transport facilities across cities in the country, the Union Government is all set to clear metro projects for nine cities entailing a whopping investment worth Rs. 83,000cr, said official sources elaborating that the cities included Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada, while work is already in full swing on building metro projects in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Nagpur.

The urban development ministry’s initial estimates indicated that the cost of constructing one km of metro rail stretch is around Rs. 250 Crore and that a total of 223 km will be covered by these metro projects. Currently, 259 km of metro rail is operational of which, 189 km is in Delhi, 60 km in other cities, including Chennai, Bengaluru and Nagpur. As a matter of fact, about 528 km of metro lines entailing a staggering investment worth Rs. 1.64 lakh Crore, including 138 km in Delhi and 25 km in Kochi will become operational very shortly.

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Kochi Metro: Alstom bags power supply contract for Kochi Metro project

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Kochi: Alstom was awarded a contract worth €9 million from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to provide receiving and auxiliary main substations for the Kochi metro.
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This contract includes high voltage cabling from the state grid for the new 25 kilometer long metro line. Alstom is the main supplier of Kochi metro after it has been awarded previous orders for 25 Metropolis trainsets, signalling, telecom and electrification. Commercial service is scheduled to begin in March 2016.

Under this new contract, Alstom is in charge of the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 110kV cabling incoming from the grid (incl. civil works), 2x GIS 110kV Intake Power Substations and their associated Power Transformers 110kV/33kV, and 33kV/415V Auxiliary Transformers.

“With this new contract, which is, by the way, the first metro receiving sub-station contract for Alstom Transport in India, we are supplying most of the Kochi metro line. It reaffirms the trust that the customer has in our products, technology and capability to provide a complete metro system” said Bharat Salhotra, Managing Director, Alstom Transport India.

Globally, Alstom designs, builds, delivers, tests and commissions all types of rail electrification infrastructure with a strong focus on customer needs and ensures maintenance of the entire system. It has installed nearly 4,000km of contact systems throughout the world and takes part in hundreds of power supply projects, including both turnkey contracts and the delivery of separate sub-systems.

Alstom has been present in India for more than a century. The company has recently opened a new facility at SriCity to build metro train sets and has a manufacturing unit in Coimbatore for traction systems and an engineering unit specialized in signalling, telecom and rolling stock in Bangalore. Alstom has strong references in the country both in signalling and rolling stock, including the metro train sets for Chennai and the signalling systems provided for Delhi, Bengaluru and Jaipur metros.

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MEGA (Gujrat) Metro l NIT for various construction work for Gyaspur Metro Depot

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TENDER NOTIFICATION No: MEGA/CONS/DEPOT/N-S/1/2015 Dated: 24-03-2015

Sealed Tenders are invited from reputed and experienced contractors for the work of “Construction of Boundary Wall, Earth Work And Land/Area-Grading Works At Gyaspur Depot On North South Corridor of Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-I”, for Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar & Ahmedabad (MEGA) Company Limited. The Interested Tenderers may purchase the tender documents from MEGA’s office during office working hours between 31-03-2015 to 09-04-2015 on Payment of non-refundable fee of Rs.25000/- (Indian Rupees Twenty Five thousand ) only, in the form of Demand Draft/Pay order/Banker’s Cheque drawn in favour of “Metro–Link Express for Gandhinagar &Ahmedabad (MEGA) Company Ltd.” payable at Gandhinagar (Gujarat).

Any alterations in Qualification Criteria and Minimum Eligibility Requirements, and terms of the Tender Document, or any amendment to the Tender Document, etc, will be uploaded on MEGA’s official website

and individually intimated to the tenderers only, who have purchased the Tender Documents, without any

obligation of press notification or other proclamation.

For further details including NIT, eligibility requirements, etc. please log on to web site

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Hyderabad Metro: HMRL still damaging heritage structures in Hyderabad

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31/03/2015

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Hyderabad: Contrary to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s declaration that heritage structures in Hyderabad would not be touched in the Metro works, many heritage buildings have become targets one after another.

On Friday, the ongoing works of the Hyderabad Metro Rail has cost another heritage structure-compound wall, a fountain and two pillared gates at Aladdin Mansion in Begumpet.

The antique building located near Shoppers’ Stop, an important landmark of Secunderabad was constructed in 1934 and was listed as a Grade-1 heritage site in 1998 by a Government order. In spite of that, it has fallen prey to the indifference and callousness of the GHMC officials.

Shailesh Ganeriwal, son of Narayanlal Ganeriwal, one of the proprietors of the building said without any notice or advance intimation the HMR officials came in the morning armed with bulldozers and razed the compound wall and also tore down an ancient fountain. “They flattened everything within a 40 feet radius of the compound,” he said

GHMC officials however said they had only demolished the wall that was not part of the heritage structure. It may be noted that the TS CM had compelled the L & T to alter their designs and route of the HMR from Assembly and also the Mozamjahi market.

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MEGA Metro (Gujrat)-2015 l Recruitment of various posts in Engineering discipline

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Recruitment Notice No. MEGA/HR/RECT/CONST./2015/01

Dated: 17 March, 2015

Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Co. Ltd., invites applications from qualified and experienced Engineers in various fields of Civil/Electrical/ Signaling/Telecommunications for appointment of key senior/middle/junior level management positions in the Project wing.

Vacancy details:-

1. Deputy General Manager (Construction) – 01 post

2. Assistant General Manager (QA & QC) – 01 post

3. Assistant General Manager (Architect)- 01 post

4. Manager (Civil) – 05 posts

5.Deputy Manager (Civil) – 05 posts

6. Assistant Manager (Civil) – 05 posts

7. Engineer (Civil) – 05 posts

8. Deputy Manager (Electrical-Traction)- 01 post

9. Deputy Manager (Electrical-E&M) – 01 post

10. Deputy Manager (Signaling) – 01 post

11. Assistant Manager (Electrical-Traction)- 01 post

12. Assistant Manager (Signaling) – 01 post

13. Assistant Manager (Telecom) – 01 post

How to apply: Eligible candidates may apply by submitting prescribed proforma.

Selection Process: Shortlisted candidates will be called for personal interview.

Click here to see official notification & download the application form

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Impact of public transport on Delhi-Capital

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31/03/2015

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Despite increased traffic, Delhi saw its lowest number of fatal accidents in a decade in 2014. Delhi Police data reveal that 1,595 deaths were reported (1,559 accidents) in 2014, compared to 1,754 in 2013; 1,866 in 2012; 2,110 in 2011; 2,153 in 2010; and 2,325 in 2009.

Apart from aggressive implementation of traffic rules, experts suggest that one of the major reasons for the fall in road accidents in the last decade coincides with the metro gradually becoming the principal artery of public transport with increased numbers of commuters using it. Today, Delhi’s metro boasts of an average daily traffic of over 25 lakh commuters, making it the city’s most preferred mode of public transport.

According to a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) survey, the number of vehicles on road fell by around 3.9 lakh per day in 2014. And, given that two-wheelers (after pedestrians) contribute the most to fatal accidents, the fact that many commuters now use two-wheelers only for last mile connectivity to metro stations has contributed to reducing accidents.

“Unlike open urban rail systems like in Mumbai, Delhi metro is safer as it is a closed system. Apart from reducing accidents on roads, cases of run-overs or people falling to death from trains are also ruled out,” says Anuj Dayal, Executive Director (Communications), DMRC.

Other benefits

Experts say carbon emission from the metro network is the least compared to other modes of transport. “Though CNG buses have helped reduce pollution levels as well, urban rail networks like metro pollute the least,” says P.K. Sarkar, Head of Transport and Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

Delhi metro is currently spread across a 190-km network. With work for the third phase in full swing, the network will extend to around 330 km in the next couple of years. Being one of the biggest urban infrastructure projects in the Capital, the metro has created large business and job opportunities. “Now everybody wants to own residential and commercial space close to the metro. Even the government is pushing for transit-oriented development (TOD),” says Mr. Sarkar.

The Delhi Development Authority has already started work on TOD near Karkardooma metro station in East Delhi on the Dwarka-Vaishali line as a pilot project. Spread across 60 acres, it will be a residential-cum-commercial hub, with 4,800 homes, plazas, public spaces, commercial and office spaces, residential areas and restaurants.

Besides, say officials, the metro in Delhi has also led to indirect employment generation. “All contracts awarded to companies by DMRC promote indigenisation. It is mandatory for companies to engage Indian companies wherever possible. Besides, several vendors of DMRC have now established manufacturing units in India,” says Mr. Dayal. Thus, Rotem manufactures rolling stock in Sawli, Gujarat, and Astom is producing near Chandigarh. Initially, metro tokens were being made in Japan, but now a manufacturing unit has come up in Noida.

Best for high density areas

Compared to other modes of mass transit networks, experts say the metro is the best suited for a populous city like Delhi. “The choice of mass transit and its success is directly proportional to the demand based on density of population. Besides, the right of way on roads also becomes a determinant in choosing the nature of mass transit system,” says Mr. Sarkar.

The carrying capacity of the metro is 80,000 to 90,000 people per hour per direction traffic (phpdt). The capacity of buses (in mixed traffic) is only 10,000 to 15,000 phpdt. In case of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), it could go up to 20,000 to 30,000 phpdt. Monorail’s capacity is 15,000 to 20,000 phpdt, while for light rail it is up to 35,000 phpdt.

“Monorails are best suited for narrow streets as they can manoeuvre curves better. Light rail trains could even run on the street along with road traffic, while the metro needs to be fully segregated. It is the artery of the city, but it can’t go where the density is poor, else it becomes unviable.
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The choice has to be entirely need based,” says Mr. Sarkar.

After Delhi’s success story, metros have been cleared in several capitals across the country, with Mumbai and Bangalore getting online in the last couple of years. However, there is a visible absence of standardisation in terms of quality and experience. Even in mechanical infrastructure such as rolling stock, there is difference. Even within Delhi, different rolling stocks are used on different lines. Officials say that, despite technology upgradation being a dynamic process, there is scope to standardise rolling stock, electrical equipment, signalling systems, etc.

“It is good for manufacturers as well. With metros coming up in several states, standardisation would help both manufacturer and operator. Things have started moving in that direction,” a senior metro official said.

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Chennai Metro: CMRL missing the deadline of metro project

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31/03/2015

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Chennai: Rewind to 2010. The then DMK government launched Phase I of Chennai Metro Rail with a huge budget of Rs. 14,600 crore for a 45 km network slated for completion in 2015.

It is 2015, and even the first leg of the project—a 10 km stretch between Koyambedu and Alandur that had to be up and running by October 2014—has not taken off. The project has also grown Rs. 6,000 crore costlier owing to various factors: delays in construction; termination of two contracts; intermittent labour problems.

Recently, the mandatory safety audit and approval from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS), which is required to start commercial operations, was postponed to next month.

Now, it is not clear when the project will take off. Metro expert E. Sreedharan recently said that the ruling AIADMK government has not given the project the support it deserves.

DMK party treasurer M.K. Stalin said that the four Chennai district units of the DMK would hold ‘jail bharo’ agitations at the points where the ‘Metro Rail service begins and ends’ to condemn the failure of the State to inaugurate the Metro Rail Project.
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“The date for the protest will be announced soon,” Mr. Stalin said.

“Even after the completion of the project between Koyambedu and Alandur, there has been no effort to operate the service, as the state government is waiting for the order on the disproportionate wealth case against the former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa,” he said.

Also, during the recent budget announcements for the State, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam only made a generalised commitment that the first phase would begin in 2015-2016, but nothing further was said about Phase I extension of the project from Washermanpet to Wimco Nagar or Phase II of the project.

Meanwhile, the city’s commuters continue to suffer, both from the continuing metro construction work and the absence of a viable mass transit alternative.

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