Mumbai gets Nation’s first Monorail on Feb 1

Mumbai gets Nation’s first Monorail on Feb 1

Posted by Unknown on Thursday, 30 January 2014 0

The nation's first Monorail administration will start operations one month from now on the 8.9 km Wadala-Chembur area in the focal eastern suburbs of the city after a postponement of over two years. 

The Monorail administration will be introduced on February 1 by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here and the business operations will start from the following day, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) head UPS Madan told columnists here on Thursday. 

The Rs 3,000 crore mono rail undertaking is, no doubt actualized in two stages. The predominant stage embodies the 8.9 km long Wadala-Chembur area, which will be tossed open to people in general on Saturday while in the second stage the administrations will be stretched out to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk in South Mumbai. 

The Authority has settled passages between Rs 5-11 for the first stage of operations, he said including that MMRDA will work six trains in the first stage, and an alternate 10 will be included the second. 

Regardless, the administrations will work with four mentors having a joined together convey limit of 2,300 travelers at regular intervals, Madan said. 

“We aim to provide a service at every four minutes going forward,” he said.

The monorail venture has been executed by a consortium of building significant Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&t) and Malaysian firm Scomi Engineering and possessed and worked by MMRDA. 

The monorail is required to lessen the travel time between Wadala and Chembur by practically half, from 40 minutes at present to about 21 minutes. 

MMRDA has recently used Rs 1,900 crore of the Rs 3,000 crore dispensed for the venture, Madan said accumulation, “the civil work on the second phase of the project has been completed."