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Mumbai: Application for Height exemption permission to install overhead cables forMumbai Metro Rail Junction has been withdrawal by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).  Height clearance granted in March would cause no safety issues for Juhu Aerodrame, said Airport Authority of India (AAI). MMRDA mainly took decision to withdraw application after this statement of AAI. Metro 2B route which is passing through a funnel area of Juhu Aerodrome, along SV road in santacruz, MMRDA wanted height exemption for part of elevated corridor. This route is being implemented by MMRDA. On 13 July a division bench of justice SC Dharmadhikari and Bharthi Dangre allowed MMRDA to withdraw it application. An email was forwarded by the AAI offices and signed by general Manager (ATM-NOC) New Delhi. Which was later informed to High Court by Shilpa Kapil. A grant of NOC for height of 16.76m AMSL stands was mention in email. [caption id="attachment_15862" align="alignnone...

Coimbatore: The rural and administrative minister of municipal, SP Velumani, said on Wednesday that talks had been held with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to implement the railway project of metro in the city. According to sources, the first phase of the metro rail project, whose feasibility study has not yet been carried out, is likely to start at Avinashi Road, where an overflight is also approaching. “The work on the Avinashi Road overpass and the metro rail project will be taken simultaneously and working on one will not affect the other,” Velumani said when asked how both projects would be implemented on the same stretch. The minister, who inspected the soil test work for the Avinashi Road overpass here, said the state government has allocated Rs 950 crore for the construction of overpass and sanctioned another Rs 65 lakh for the testing process of soil. ...