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Mumbai: Employees of the Malaysian based Scomi Engineering involved in operations of India"s first Monorail  in Mumbai. They have now appealed to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to find some solution for their salary issue. They urged the Chief Minister to restart operation of Monorail so that their issues can be resolved. If once the operation start employees will get new ray of hope that the will get their unpaid salaries since April 2018. In June, company told some employees to work from home and some were sent on leave due to issues raised between MMRDA and the Scomi Engineering. MMRDA should charge to scomi for sending scrap trains to Mumbai.They cannot play with the career of 175 innocent Indian workers. @Ateeq # Employees didn"t get their salary from past 2 months and now they have been asked to be at home. @MMRDA # please get some alternate options. — Mukesh Gupta (@mukeshprofile) June 16, 2018 Fadnavis who is heads Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (M...

Mumbai: Once again the monorail is back in the news and this time too for wrong reasons. The Mumbai monorail that was heading towards Chembur from Wadala developed a technical snag and stopped after reaching near Chembur station. The incident took place at around 9-9.30 pm on Saturday and the train filled with passengers, suddenly developed technical issues. The monorail had reached the Chembur platform halfway when it suddenly ceased to operate. Another train arriving from Wadala had to then towed the monorail to the end of the platform. All the passengers are safe and this incident is currently under investigation," said an MMRDA official.