Delhi Metro, Reliance Infrastructure rift widens by railenquiry on 12 August, 2012 - 08:00 AM | ||
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railenquiry | Delhi Metro, Reliance Infrastructure rift widens on 12 August, 2012 - 08:00 AM | |
NEW DELHI: A month after the Reliance Infrastructure-led consortium shut down the Airport Metro Express line, the acrimony between Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the concessionaire has reached another level. DMRC has now accused R-Infra of trying to shift the blame for the maintenance and related work on to Delhi Metro after it refused the concessionaire's request to defer payment of concession fee for five years.Jitender Tyagi, director (works), DMRC, has told TOI, "The contractual agreement is very clear: The concessionaire can inform DMRC of any problem that occur on the Airport Metro line and DMRC will address those issues for the first 12 months. Thereafter, maintenance is the concessionaire's responsibility."According to Tyagi, R-Infra could also have inspected the line six months after the start of services and before the expiry of the 12-month period for any defect or problem on it. "However, the concessionaire never approached Delhi Metro with any such complaints during this period."Tyagi claimed, "All the problems started surfacing after DMRC rejected the concessionaire's request for deferring the concession fee for the next five years. Reliance had cited mounting revenue losses for deferring the payment of concession fee, which is Rs 51 crore annually, plus a percentage of the gross revenue every quarter." |