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The Institute of Urban Transport, a nonrecreational assemblage nether the purview of the the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), has raised definite queries connected the Chennai Metro Rail’s 3 hold projects — namely, Airport to Kilambakkam, Poonamallee to Sunguvarchathiram, and Koyambedu to Pattabiram.
In 2025, the Chennai Metro Rail submitted the elaborate task reports (DPRs) of these 3 projects to the Tamil Nadu government. They were past forwarded to the Union government.
While the ₹9,335-crore Airport-Kilambakkam agelong is simply a 15.46-km corridor touching 13 stations, the ₹9,744-crore Koyambedu-Avadi-Pattabiram corridor volition screen 21.76 km, with 19 stations. The Poonamallee-Sunguvarchatram corridor runs for a region of 27.9 km, making stops astatine 14 locations, and volition beryllium built astatine an estimated outgo of ₹8,779 crore.
According to officials from Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), portion they person commenced immoderate of the preliminary procedures for these projects, the Institute of Urban Transport examined each 3 task proposals and raised immoderate queries recently.
“We are responding to the queries. We request approvals from the Centre for these 3 task proposals, and it whitethorn instrumentality anyplace betwixt six months to 1 twelvemonth to person them,” an authoritative said.
Sources said the Institute had raised queries regarding the income classification categories with respect to housing, immoderate aspects of the economical investigation to cheque the viability of the projects, accusation regarding the integration betwixt antithetic modes of transport successful the city, and astir the initiatives that CMRL takes to propulsion the Make successful India Scheme with these projects.
Officials said that adjacent arsenic they await approvals from the Union authorities for each 3 projects, they person begun the preliminary processes for commencing the work. “Since the Government Order has been passed for onshore acquisition for these 3 projects, the enactment to displacement utilities volition soon begin. Moving utilities safely without causing immoderate inconvenience is the archetypal signifier of starting the project,” said an official.
“We are waiting for the State authorities to deposit funds for these 3 projects. Once that happens, we volition manus them implicit to the respective agencies, similar TANGEDCO oregon CMWSSB, for the shifting of the utilities. Simultaneously, we tin commencement the onshore acquisition process, too. These activities volition greatly trim the task execution time,” a root said.
