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| Akhilesh wants metro rails in major |
| Akhilesh wants metro rails in major UP cities
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| INDIA
, 27-March-2012
5:30:43 AM |
| With new Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav prioritising the mono rail and metro rail projects for major cities in Uttar Pradesh, officials are working overtime to prepare a feasibility report on the projects. Officials say the report would be with the chief minister's office in three weeks.
Orders have been issued to check the 'soil concentration' - a major benchmark for the rail project - in Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Varanasi, for which the rail projects are being conceived.
"Work has been initiated soon after last week's meeting with the chief minister and officials of the Agra Development Authority, Kanpur Development Authority, Lucknow and Varanasi Development Authority are doing the spade work," a senior official from the Chief Minister's Secretariat told IANS.
Officials in the urban development department are exploring two options - direct funding by the state and union governments (as in the case of the Delhi Metro Rail project) or a public-private partnership (PPP) model (as in the case of Mumbai) - while preparing the feasibility report.
A separate team from the housing department is working on the proposed routes that should be considered for the rail projects, keeping in mind the traffic bottlenecks and an "objective assessment of the ground realities".
With regard to the Metro rail project for Lucknow along a 36-km stretch, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had already submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) a year back when the Mayawati government was in power.
The Metro rail project for Lucknow was initially pegged at Rs. 12,672 crore but the inflated cost, worked out by officials, puts it at Rs. 16,000 crore now.
In the DPR, the city was divided into three phases for the Metro rail link - North-South Corridor, East-West Corridor and the Gomtinagar link. The biggest among these three phases was the North-South Corridor which was to cost somewhere around Rs. 5,421 crore.
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