Metro III contracts to be awarded in a month

May 11, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 05:39 am IST - MUMBAI:

Contracts for the construction of Mumbai Metro III, connecting Colaba with SEEPZ via Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) and the airport, will be awarded within a month, and work will commence after the monsoon, a top Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) official said. “We have been facing many issues. The project was conceived in 2011 and the detailed project report was prepared that year. In 2014, it got the Cabinet approval. Now we are in 2016, but yet to start work,” Aswini Bhide, managing director, MMRC, said at an interactive meeting on Tuesday.

“So many issues keep coming up. This Rs 23,000-crore project needs to come up fast and in next one month we will issue the order for civil work,” she said. “We are at the final stage of approval. We will start work after the monsoon and it has to be completed within five years. The State government has set up a war room at the Chief Minister’s Office where most of the issues are resolved. Land acquisition and other issues have already been taken care of.” Ms Bhide said once the project is completed it will connect six centres which are not on the mass rapid transport system.

Speaking at the same event, UPS Madan, metropolitan commissioner, MMRDA, said over half a dozen metro rail projects have been taken up to improve public transport and decongest roads.

He said work on corridors with a combined length of 118 kilometres will start this year and the entire Mumbai city will be covered by the metro rail in the next five years. He said work on the Dahisar East-Andheri and Dahisar-DN Nagar metro corridors will start after the monsoon. Similarly, the second phase of mono rail connecting Mahalaxmi and Wadala will start by the end of this year. On the Mumbai Trans Harbor Link Project that will connect the island city with Navi Mumbai through a sea link, Mr Madan said MMRDA will undertake the project through financial assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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