Uncertainty looms on running Mumbai Monorail despite of more coaches
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will get more coaches for the city transit project. But it is uncertain as to when the Mumbai Monorail will be made operational. MMRDA has already received six coaches out of 10 from LTSE - a consortium of Larsen & Toubro and Scomi Engineering. The officials are pinning the delay on contractors who have not been able to deliver the spare parts. MMRDA will receive two more coaches by December and by February the other two coaches too be delivered, informed the MMRDA official. The authority added the postponement is due to contractor’s inability to organize spare parts for the monorail on time. The first phase of Mumbai Monorail was closed last year after fire broke out in November. Since then MMRDA has not started the operations. MMRDA stated that owing to non-availability of spare parts of RSTs, they have reduced the number of working trains to facilitate sustainable operation of the monorails. But t...