Thiruvananthapuram | DMRC withdrawals the partnership, disruption in Light Metro Projects
Thiruvananthapuram: Decision of Metro Man E Sreedharan and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to back out of this Light Metro Rail projects in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode has greatly disrupted the work progress. Now the Kerala government need to scout for a new consultant. There were three proposed flyovers in the Kerala capital to support the Light Metro Rail and the designs prescribed by the DMRC team. A senior official of the KRTC (Kerala Rapid Transport Corporation) told FE that the “Tender procedures to identify the new consultant are under way.” The state government last week assigned the KRTC with the task of finding an appropriate consultant to replace the DMRC. The total project length is 35.12 km in two cities. Of the three flyovers for the Thiruvananthapuram Light Metro, the socioeconomic impact study for this project has been already completed and land acquisition has to begin. The similar survey for the second flyover is on process and the third is ...