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Amaravati: Things are moving at good pace for Vijayawada Metro. As per press briefing by minister for Municipal Administration P Narayana, the detailed project report (DPR) will be ready within 3 months.  With DPR ready, process for metro work will begin post approval from authorities. As per the minister, the DPR is being prepared for the metro corridors of 65 km stretch in the city. He also shared that the he reviewed the progress of metro rail with Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation MD N P Ramakrishna as well as the representatives of German government owned KfW Bank, SISTRA public transport consultants (France) at the Secretariat in the first half of the week. As per the minister the initial DPR was made for two corridors for a stretch of 25km in the Vijayawada city. He added that this was later extended to Gannavaram airport and Amaravati. Narayana shared that they are also planning to construct additional corridor to Jakkampudi location. The DPR for the new corridor will be p...

Vijayawada: The Amaravati metro is ready to be shot by its arm with international agencies that come to support the project. Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC) is exploring the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to execute the project, something that became inevitable since the government of the Union in its Metro Rail Policy 2017 turned the PPP into a mandatory component to take advantage of the Financial assistance from the Center AMRC was initially proposed as a medium-sized metro project in 2015 with the support of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). However, the project had to be carried out by the Union for financing, for which a new detailed project report (DPR) had to be made. KFW Germany came forward to finance the DPR for the project. The government then signed a pact with SYSTRA to prepare the DPR. AMRC had intensified the work of DPR and is now looking for investors for the project in PPP mode. “Soon we will invite tenders for the Metro Rail of Visakhapatnam ...

Vijayawada: The Amaravati metro is ready to be shot by its arm with international agencies that come to support the project. Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC) is exploring the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to execute the project, something that became inevitable since the government of the Union in its Metro Rail Policy 2017 turned the PPP into a mandatory component to take advantage of the Financial assistance from the Center AMRC was initially proposed as a medium-sized metro project in 2015 with the support of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). However, the project had to be carried out by the Union for financing, for which a new detailed project report (DPR) had to be made. KFW Germany came forward to finance the DPR for the project. The government then signed a pact with SYSTRA to prepare the DPR. AMRC had intensified the work of DPR and is now looking for investors for the project in PPP mode. “Soon we will invite tenders for the Metro Rail of Visakhapatnam ...