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Chennai Metro Rail has roped successful a 3rd contractor to implicit the way enactment betwixt Porur and Power House for the upcoming signifier II project.
A portion of corridor 4 (Poonamallee to Light House) of the signifier II task betwixt Poonamallee and Porur is getting acceptable for inauguration aboriginal this year. Following this stretch, Porur to Power House indispensable beryllium completed and opened for the public.
After the viaduct was built and way laying was finished betwixt Poonamallee and Porur, Chennai Metro Rail commenced proceedings runs. But the adjacent agelong — Porur to Power House — has been posing a batch of challenges. The operation of the viaduct — including a 3.75-km double-decker enactment betwixt Alapakkam and Alwarthirunagar — for the Porur-Power House agelong is inactive nether way.
According to officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), wherever the viaduct had been built, they had instructed the contractor in-charge for laying the tracks to statesman the work. But the archetypal contractor who was initially fixed the occupation to laic the way had delayed the enactment rather a bit.
“Since we didn’t privation the enactment to dilatory down further, we held talks with different contractor who was already carrying retired the viaduct enactment and the steadfast agreed to travel connected board. Both firms had been moving simultaneously successful antithetic locations betwixt Porur and Power House to laic the track,” an authoritative said.
But the CMRL noticed that some the contractors had not been gathering the expected gait successful completing the work.
“We are peculiar astir finishing the Porur-Power House agelong soon arsenic well. We don’t privation the hold successful laying the way to person an adverse interaction connected task completion. Hence, now, we person roped successful a 3rd track-laying contractor who has begun enactment on this stretch. We are monitoring the advancement to guarantee its completion astatine the earliest,” different authoritative said.
Sources said, terminating a contractor and floating caller tenders would effect successful terrible delays for a project. Rather, this statement of roping successful their existing contractors progressive successful civilian enactment connected different stretches volition assistance prevention clip significantly.
Completing the Porur-Power House agelong astatine the earliest is important for commuters arsenic lone then, they tin alteration from signifier II web to signifier I web astatine Vadapalani Metro Rail station.
