Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Metro project’s deadline extended to 2017
The deadline for the Navi Mumbai Metro project has been extended by the implementing body, Cidco.
While the original deadline for the completion of the first phase of the ambitious 23.4-km Belapur CBD to Khandeshwar Metro project in Navi Mumbai was 2014, the Metro is now likely to become operational only by 2017. The first phase of the project involves the 11.1-km corridor from Belapur CBD to Pendhar. The cost of construction of this corridor will be more than Rs 2,500 crore.
The extension of the Navi Mumbai Metro project deadline by Cidco is essentially a result of the fact that Cidco has decided to increase the width of the coaches from 2.9 metres to 3.2 metres, so that they align with the Mumbai Metro.
As such, the ‘Belapur CBD to Pendhar’ corridor of the Navi Mumbai Metro will now be launched in 2017, instead of the previously projected deadline of 2014. The extended deadline will give Cidco the required time to get the Metro project’s coaches reworked from its rolling stock vendor, Spanish consortium Ansaldo.
About the extended deadline, an unidentified Cidco official said: “We had to make certain changes in the original structural plan…. keeping in mind that in future the Mumbai Metro, which uses the standard gauge rolling stocks, may be integrated with our metro. This resulted in a delay as we had to rework on our plan.”
Source – The Hindu Business Line
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