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New Delhi: The Delhi Government has rejected the Delhi- Meerut  RRTS corridor,   National Capital Region Transport Corporation"s (NCRTC) proposal to build an elevated station at Sarai Kale Khan. The Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) aims to reduce travel time between the two cities to just 55 minutes. The construction of the station would delay the redevelopment project of the existing Sarai Kale Khan inter-state bus terminal (ISBT) by more than two years. The Sarai Kale Khan station was supposed to be the starting point of the RRTS line from Delhi. However, State Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot returned the file on September 12 saying that the government would approve the station only if it"s according to the previous plan in which the station was designed to be underground, said Delhi government.   While changing the station"s design, the Delhi government was not kept in loop by the NCRTC. At least 11 approvals including DDA, ASI, Delhi Urban A...

New Delhi:  Union Housing & Urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri communicates to Delhi government that it cannot bear Delhi’s share for rapid rail project.  The propose project is between Sarai Kale Khan and Meerut. This comes after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting center to fund the project. Puri has instead written to Kejriwal with a suggestion that Delhi government can get loan for the raid rail. As per close sources, Puri has made it clear that there is a template for all mass transit projects. The template clearly states the shares of equity that the Centre and state have put to. The urban minister asserted that they will not change the said arrangement. Previously, Puri had communicated to Delhi government that his ministry can help them avail loan at economical rate of interest. As per current data, Delhi government requires to pitch in Rs 1,138 crore as equity for the Rs 31,902 crore project. Urban affairs secretary Durga Shankar Mishra during ...

New Delhi: The introduction of GST has made difficulty for the Delhi government to buy new metro coaches as it will have to shell out more money as compared to the centre. Delhi metro proposed to procure 582 coaches with Delhi government for 17 months but now they have piped down it’s demand for 164 coaches. So now the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has sent the fresh proposal to the Delhi and the state government as both the government’s are the equal shareholders in the corporation. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) director SD Sharma says wrote to the city’s transport department on June 9 that “metro will incur the costs of procurement on it’s own through ‘external borrowings’ and ‘internal accurals’. Metro originally proposed for 582 coaches to Delhi government on January 11, 2017. But after the launch of magenta line and the rise in commuters it led to more coaches. Due to the delay on the part of the city governmen...

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi Government has refused to grant sanction for construction of two new corridors of DMRC’s phase-IV project. Delhi government declaring two of the six corridors “economically unviable”. These two corridors are Rithala-Bawana-Narela and Aerocity-Saket-Tughlakabad corridor which have been found to be non-feasible in a detailed analysis of Phase IV conducted by the chief secretary at the behest of the Kejriwal government. The DMRC had sought a nod for three routes- Janakpuri West to RK Ashram, Mukundpur to Maujpur and Aerocity-Tughlakabad. It was planning to initiate work for Phase-IV starting from the Aerocity line, followed by Rithala-Bawana-Narela as it deemed a significant route to the DMRC. It had also put in place tasks like civil design, building architect so as to start the work as soon as it gets a green signal from the government. In last year Delhi Government had given in principle approval to DMRC on a detaile...

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi Government has refused to grant sanction for construction of two new corridors of DMRC’s phase-IV project. Delhi government declaring two of the six corridors “economically unviable”. These two corridors are Rithala-Bawana-Narela and Aerocity-Saket-Tughlakabad corridor which have been found to be non-feasible in a detailed analysis of Phase IV conducted by the chief secretary at the behest of the Kejriwal government. The DMRC had sought a nod for three routes- Janakpuri West to RK Ashram, Mukundpur to Maujpur and Aerocity-Tughlakabad. It was planning to initiate work for Phase-IV starting from the Aerocity line, followed by Rithala-Bawana-Narela as it deemed a significant route to the DMRC. It had also put in place tasks like civil design, building architect so as to start the work as soon as it gets a green signal from the government. In last year Delhi Government had given in principle approval to DMRC on a detaile...

New Delhi: Four days ahead of the proposed Metro fare hike, the Centre has informed the Delhi government that if the latter is willing to pay an amount of Rs 3,000 crore to the DMRC every year, then a new Fare Fixation Committee (FFC) could be set up, news agency ANI reported. The DMRC, which is... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/d6NYnF

New Delhi: In a rare meeting of minds, the ruling Aam Admi Party and the opposition BJP today opposed the Delhi Metro’s fare hike which will take effect from October 10. Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal directed his Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot to look into the matter, the... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/vBxFVu

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the proposal on Phase IV of Delhi Metro, involving extensions of the existing lines and one new, will be soon sent to the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for approval. The issue was discussed when Kejriwal met Housing... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/n3ZmuY