DMRC to construct Metro in Pink City
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is set to take up its first fully independent turnkey project outside the Delhi-NCR region as the government of Rajasthan has approached Metro Chief E. Sreedharan to construct the Metro Rail for Jaipur city.
“An agreement to this effect will be signed on Thursday at Jaipur with chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Mr Sreedharan. In terms of the same, initially a 9.25-km-long Metro corridor between Mansarover and Chand Pole consisting of eight elevated and one underground station will be constructed by the DMRC,” DMRC spokesperson said.
The elevated section will be 8.77-km-long and will consist of the following stations: Mansarover, New Atish Market, Vivek Vihar, Shyam Nagar, Ram Nagar, Civil Lines, Railway Station and Sindhi Camp. The underground section will be only 0.473 km in length and will consist of only one station, namely Chand Pole.
The DMRC will be doing the civil construction, including the track work, construction of the Metro maintenance depot, arrangement for traction and power supply, as per the agreement. The estimated cost of the project will be Rs 1, 250 crores. The implementation time for the project is only 3 years and 7 months after signing the agreement and the DMRC has already set up a project office at Jaipur headed by the project director Mr Lalit Meghnani to ensure that the project is implemented speedily at a fast pace. Though this is the first project that the DMRC is directly implementing outside the Delhi/NCR region, the DMRC has already provided consultancy to all other state governments interested in implementing Metro projects in their cities such as Bengaluru, Kochi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune and Ludhiana.
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