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Ludhiana: In a good news for city residents, the much-awaited meeting of the Ludhiana Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is scheduled for tomorrow in Delhi. The LMRC has been waiting for the meeting for long as the final process of the Ludhiana Metro Rail project will fall on track.During the meeting, the detailed project report (DPR) prepared by DMRC in 2008 and the recently conducted survey of the LMRC will be discussed.Apart from the LMRC officials, senior officials of the Ludhiana municipal corporation, the state local bodies department and Punjab Infrastructure Development Board will also attend the meeting."Presently the Ludhiana Metro Rail project is in its initial stages of planning, but once the meeting is held, the project will fall on track and we expect that the construction work will start soon," said a senior MC official.The corridor I is 15. 798 km long and will start from the Ayali Chowk on the Ferozepur Road and will go till the BBMB Power House on Chandigarh Road. It will have a total of 14 stations, including 10 elevated and four underground.The corridor II is 13.035 km long and will start from Gill village and will end at the Rahon Road Octroi post. The corridor will have 13 stations, including six elevated and seven underground.The corridors will be elevated as the metro rail will run some 26 feet above the ground level and for underground corridor, the metro rail will run 15-20 m below the ground.

To speed up the work concerning the Ludhiana Metro Rail project, the Ludhiana municipal corporation Commissioner has already constituted a three-member "support cell" that will look into various aspects of the project, including the acquisition of land and liaisoning with other government departments.

The team includes Assistant Commissioner (Technical) HS Khosa, who will oversee the work of Ludhiana Metro Rail project as a coordinator-cum-nodal officer, senior town planner (STP) Hemant Batra will study and prepare a detailed report regarding all government and private properties to be acquired for the project and SDO (bridges and roads) Sanjay Kanwar will look into the office work of the support cell.