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The Chennai Metro Rail’s 3 hold projects — Airport to Kilambakkam, Poonamallee to Parandur, and Koyambedu to Pattabiram via Avadi — are connected the radar of the Centre’s Network Planning Group (NPG).
The NPG comprises representatives from assorted Ministries and departments, whose relation is to guarantee unified readying and integration of proposals and networks. If the NPG clears these projects, they volition beryllium forwarded to the Public Investment Board for approval. Once the Cabinet gives the last nod, the Tamil Nadu authorities tin motorboat the work.
The elaborate task reports (DPRs) of the 3 projects were sent to the Centre a twelvemonth ago, but person not been approved yet.
They supply details of the stations, their location, cost, financial, societal and biology impact, projected ridership for the adjacent fewer decades, and the imaginable benefits.
According to officials of the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), a high-level gathering with the NPG was precocious held to sermon the Airport-Kilambakkam project. “They person asked america to clasp discussions with Railways and Defence, aft which we volition sermon the task with the NPG again. Next week, the NPG volition reappraisal the Koyambedu-Avadi-Pattabiram project, pursuing which Poonamallee-Parandur volition beryllium examined. Authorities from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs are besides perpetually successful interaction with us. The files are moving astatine a reasonably bully pace. We anticipation to get the last support for these 3 hold projects soon,” an authoritative said.
In Chennai, portion the 54-km signifier I (two corridors — Washermanpet to Chennai airdrome and Chennai Central to St. Thomas Mount) and signifier I hold (one corridor — Washermanpet to Wimco Nagar Depot) are operational, the 118.9-km signifier II web (three corridors — Madhavaram to SIPCOT, Poonamallee to Light House, and Madhavaram to Sholinganallur) is nether construction. The bid services successful the archetypal agelong of the signifier II web from Poonamallee to Vadapalani are expected to statesman soon.
Meanwhile, past year, the State authorities permitted the CMRL to hole for onshore acquisition and determination utilities for operation erstwhile support is received. Since the operation of specified large-scale projects takes time, adjacent if the archetypal task is approved this year, it whitethorn instrumentality astatine slightest 3 years to marque it operational.
