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Chennai Metro Rail has completed the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the hold lines from Light House to Madras High Court and volition taxable it to the Tamil Nadu authorities shortly.
Chennai Metro Rail had floated bids successful March past twelvemonth looking for a advisor to hole the DPR and subsequently, successful June, Systra MVA Consulting (India) Pvt. Ltd. bagged the declaration for this project. Sources said the DPR was completed recently, and they program to manus implicit the papers to the State authorities wrong a week for its approval.
The Light House to Madras High Court agelong volition beryllium a 5.69-km underground agelong comprising 4 stations successful between—Ezhilagam, Island Grounds, Secretariat, and Madras High Court.
The estimated outgo of this task is ₹4,300 crore.
Light House, which is nether operation arsenic portion of the 118.9-km signifier II project, volition service arsenic 1 of the cardinal terminal stations. This presumption is portion of the 26.1-km East-West corridor, which starts astatine Poonamallee and terminates astatine Light House aft crossing immoderate of the halfway areas, including Valasaravakkam, Vadapalani, Kodambakkam, T. Nagar, Nandanam, Boat Club, Alwarpet, and Thirumayilai.
If the Light House-Madras High Court agelong is approved by the State and Centre and becomes operational, it could beryllium an hold of the corridor 4 and payment lakhs of people.
“Several authorities employees are employed astatine some Secretariat and Ezhilagam. Island Grounds is 1 of the important accumulation spaces successful the metropolis visited by many. So, commuters volition basal to summation hugely from Chennai Metro Rail connectivity to these 3 locations,” a root said.
It has been planned underground since it is an hold of the already existing enactment underground stretch.
Prasanna Kumar who is employed astatine Ezhilagam said, specified an hold volition assistance radical similar him to commute to workplace and the Secretariat. “I person had to often question from Ezhilagam to Secretariat. Currently, I person to instrumentality a bus. But if metro connectivity comes through, it volition beryllium acold much convenient for galore similar me,” helium added.
