Metro
Construction on the Metro’s much-awaited Ghaziabad corridor is likely to start by December this year. Delhi Metro officials said tenders had already been called and several big companies had shown interest in constructing the line. The tenders will be opened on September 30. The extension of the Rithala Dilshad Garden Line, the 9.6-kilometre corridor up [...] Continue Reading »
With the Centre’s requisite approval to the Phase-I extension of the Chennai Metro Rail expected in the near future, the land acquisition process for the Metro extension project will likely be commenced by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited in the coming months. The Phase-I extension of Chennai Metro Rail involves a 9-km stretch between Washermanpet [...] Continue Reading »
A metro extension connecting Dwarka and Gurgaon has been delayed indefinitely, as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has not submitted the detailed project report to the Haryana government. With the state assembly polls due in October, the model code of conduct will further delay the project. The extension plan has been struggling to take [...] Continue Reading »
Just 83m downstream of the Nizamuddin road bridge, another bridge has come up on the Yamuna mirroring the location of its pillars exactly. For Delhi Metro, constructing the bridge to link Hazrat Nizamuddin with Mayur Vihar-I has been an exercise in replicating the existing road bridge. The idea was to align the pillars of the [...] Continue Reading »
A proposal to reduce the population norm for financing metro rail projects is under consideration for the urban development ministry. Currently, the Centre finances Metro projects in towns and cities with a population of more than 20 lakh. The urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu stated that the government is considering reducing the population criteria to [...] Continue Reading »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the city on August 21, and may lay the foundation stone for the ambitious metro rail project. He seems to have agreed for his maiden visit to Vidarbha as a PM for a couple of programmes at Tuljapur and Deoli in Wardha district. S tate BJP president [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Thursday completed the tunnelling work at the Lal Quila Metro station. This constructed tunnel is going to be a part of the extended Central Secretariat Kashmere Gate corridor of phase 3. The 650 metre long tunnel runs between the Jama Masjid and Lal Quila Metro stations. The maximum depth [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi no longer has realty prices that are constantly gaining momentum as per the statistics of the first quarter (January to March) of 2014. The National Housing Bank’s property price index has shown a marginal drop of residential property prices in this city by 1.5%. 13 out of the 26 major cities in India haven’t [...] Continue Reading »
An official release issued here said. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet here today, It said The Central government has given in principle approval for the project. It said the Badarpur-Faridabad Metro line upto YMCA chowk is likely to be completed by September 2014. A sum of [...] Continue Reading »
Whilst the India’s first double-decker flyover— Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) — has started providing much-needed east-west connectivity, experts suggest that around the stretch the real estate market is most likely to go up, which is being seen as a good sign. There has already been a jump of close to 25 per cent in [...] Continue Reading »
