Metro Rail News April 2017
A Monthly Magazine with deep focus ongoing metro rail & high speed rail projects in India.
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| <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> <strong>News</strong> | <strong>April</strong> <strong>2017</strong> | www.metrorailnews.in<br />
“We got the sanction today and are going ahead with the<br />
detailed project report for Gorakhpur <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong>. We will<br />
submit the DPR within six months,” a senior officer at the<br />
housing department told media.<br />
<strong>Rail</strong> India Technical and Economic Services (RITES)<br />
has been given the task to draft the DPR. “Since<br />
Gorakhpur doesn’t have a comprehensive mobility plan<br />
(CMP), which is a mandatory pre-requisite for metro rail,<br />
RITES has also been asked to prepare the CMP<br />
simultaneously with the DPR,” he said.<br />
The blueprint for the Gorakhpur <strong>Metro</strong> will be prepared under the supervision of Lucknow<br />
<strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> Corporation (LMRC), which has been appointed the nodal agency for all metro projects in<br />
Uttar Pradesh.<br />
Ahmedabad <strong>Metro</strong> | MEGA to start trial test of run of metro trains in September <strong>2017</strong><br />
Gujarat chief Minister Vijay Rupani today personally<br />
visited and observed the east-west corridor functioning<br />
of Vastral to Apparel Park route of Ahmedabad <strong>Metro</strong><br />
<strong>Rail</strong> Project phase-I, and expressed his commitment to<br />
begin 6.5 km long route in forthcoming September-<br />
<strong>2017</strong>. The <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> Project will be useful medium to<br />
make people divert towards mass transportation to<br />
resolve traffic problems of Ahmedabad Municipal<br />
Corporation as BRTS project, he added.<br />
Rupani clearly said that this multifarious developmental project has come on fast track<br />
after Narendra Modi take charge as Prime Minister of India. We are getting green signals from<br />
railway authority and finance ministry on prior basis.<br />
Rupani further said that second phase of 39.259 km long <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> will be commenced in<br />
2018-19. DPR for <strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> in Surat is under progress to finalize and work will begin in near<br />
future.<br />
Delhi <strong>Metro</strong>: DJB tells NGT that no permission to DMRC for groundwater extraction<br />
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has told the National Green<br />
Tribunal that it has not granted permission to the Delhi<br />
<strong>Metro</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> Corporation (DMRC) for extraction of ground<br />
water.<br />
The submission was made before a bench headed by<br />
Justice Jawad Rahim by the counsel appearing for DJB<br />
in response to a plea alleging that Delhi <strong>Metro</strong> was<br />
extracting ground water instead of using waste water to<br />
wash its trains.<br />
DJB, in an affidavit filed before the NGT, told the bench that Delhi <strong>Metro</strong> has installed 276<br />
borewells across the national capital for which it had no permission.<br />
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