Title - DMRC to revise metro rail project report Fresh Survey Needed For Extended Route

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will prepare a revised report for construction of a metro rail project between Swargate and Nigdi.
    While the original report of the DMRC was for the route between Swargate and Pimpri, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has sought an extension of the route from Pimpri to Nigdi.
    Municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi on Tuesday said the metro rail route between Nigdi and Swargate has principally been approved. The revised metro rail route was discussed at a meeting of DMRC and PCMC officials on Tuesday.
    About 11 km of the proposed metro route will be along the Mumbai-Pune highway stretch from Phugewadi to Nigdi within the PCMC limits. A fresh survey and a revised report will have to be prepared for the route because the municipal corporation has widened the Mumbai-Pune highway stretch to eight lanes and constructed underground subways (grade separators) for vehicles at three locations. Moreover, the PCMC is also constructing a multistoried flyover at Nashik phata near Kasarwadi and has also proposed to construct a flyover near the Empire Estate at Chinchwad.
    Last week, the PCMC general body meeting approved DMRC’s detailed project report for the metro rail project for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Two routes were suggested in the detailed project report which was prepared in 2009. The first route was between Pimpri and Swargate and the second route was between Vanaz and Ramwadi. Since some issues had cropped up between the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the PCMC regarding sharing of costs for the metro project, there was a delay in approval of the report. The PMC had later sent a proposal to the state government for implementing the metro route between Vanaz to Ramwadi. This proposal has been approved by the state cabinet.
    At last week’s general body meeting, Pardeshi said the proposal for the Pimpri-Swargate route has taken a back seat. He told the general body that the DMRC’s detailed project report prepared in 2009 needs to be approved first and it should be sent to the state government for approval to ensure that the Pimpri-Swargate route is also developed. While approving the DMRC report, the general body gave a supplementary proposal to extend the Swargate-Pimpri route up to Nigdi.