Putting the city’s ambitious metro rail project under the mass rapid transport system back on track, a team of the Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC) on Thursday commenced preliminary work on the preparation of the detailed project report on its feasibility. A DMRC team, led by executive director SD Sharma, inspected various proposed corridors and alignments for the metro.
The Rs 15,000-crore project is aimed at easing traffic problems in the tricity and providing an affordable and faster means of transportation for commuters.
Earlier, the team discussed various modalities for drawing up the project report, on the basis of which various stakeholders will be in a position to press for more funds from the central government.
In the project’s first phase, scheduled to be completed by 2014-15 at a cost of Rs 10,765 crore, two corridors --one from the Punjab & Haryana Civil Secretariat to Sector 75 in Mohali and the other from Sarangpur in Chandigarh to Sector 15, Panchkula - are being built.
Last January the UT administration and the Punjab and Haryana governments approved the terms of reference proposed by Rail India Technical & Economic Services (RITES).
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