MMRDA plans to terminate contact with present Monorail operator SCOMI
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has planned to issue a termination letter to scomi engineer, the supplier and operator of Mumbai monorail coaches.On the other the MMRDA is planning to float a tender in the next two months for 12 more new monorail trains .This time the supply tender will not operate the contract for the operations and maintain of new coaches.From chembur to Wadala and Wadala to Jacob circle this project was taken up in two phases .On February 14 th , the 8.8 km monorail stretch in the first phase was opened. In the starting of this year the MMRDA issues a new tender calling for bidders. It was mainly done to take over from scomi to operate and maintain the monorail. This decision was mainly taken because there were a number of maintainence related issues like frequent break-downs, jamming of doors and a major fire that broke out in November 2017 which burned two coaches a station building and platform were damaged too. ...