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NAGPUR: Work on Nagpur metro railway is likely to begin next year if everything goes as per schedule. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has told Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) that it will submit the detailed project report (DPR) in September.NIT chairman Pravin Darade said DMRC had completed the surveys and was now preparing the report. "Once we get the report, we will send it to state and central governments for approval. Then we will start the tender process," he said.Darade added that NIT had signed the agreement for preparing the DPR with DMRC in February and given it a target to do the job in eight months. "DMRC has assured us that it will meet deadline," he said.The DMRC had conducted five type of surveys junction, screen line, outer cordon, parking and door-to-door surveys.The junction survey was done at prominent squares and traffic junctions. The screen line survey was done at railway over bridges (ROBs), flyovers, railway under bridges (RUBs), nullah crossings, etc. In the outer cordon survey DMRC agents studied the traffic movement in areas near municipal limits. Availability of parking spaces was noted down and the agents went to many residences at random and asked them about their vehicular movement patterns.