Title - Chandigrah to get 16 trains in 2018

CHANDIGARH: Sixteen Metro trains are expected to run in the city by 2018. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has fixed it as the projected year of completion, provided work begins next year. A detailed project report (DPR) has been submitted to administration.Around 1.7 lakh passenger trips per day are expected on east-west corridor including 1.1 lakh passengers from Chandigarh, 14,645 from Punjab and 40,804 passengers from Haryana.Similarly, DMRC has projected around 1.7 lakh passenger trips per day on Corridor-II.In the first phase, a total of 37.573km metro rail project has been proposed including 23.468km elevated and 14.105km underground in the Tricity. Four-coach Metro trains would be designed to accommodate over 1,100 people. The Metro system will have a fleet of 16 trains of four coaches each.Corridor-I will run from north to south and will start from a site close to Capitol Complex and will reach Sector 17 plaza through UT secretariat on Jan Marg, Sector 22 and 35, ISBT 43 and will go up to Aerocity in Mohali. In Mohali it will cover City Centre and will take a turn near Sohana gurdwara. Known as East West Corridor, Corridor-II, will start from Sector 21, Panchkula and lead to railway station Sector 17, PGI, Sarangpur and reach up to Mullanpur.