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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

16:32

MMRC floats RFP for Electrical Systems on Colaba-Seepz Corridor

MMRC floats RFP for Electrical Systems on Colaba-Seepz Corridor

The electrical system will have 25 KV alternating current traction system with a design to operate the Metro at an optimum speed of 95km/hour. Although, the design has higher speeds but the actual speed, once commissioned, won’t touch 95km/hour.

Mumbai: In an attempt to keep up with the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro project’s schedule, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has floated bids for installing electrical systems to operate the 32.5km-long underground corridor.

“Bids for the electrical systems had to be invited for it to be in place much before 2018-end for this Metro to be operational in phases,” said an MMRC official.

Therefore, private parties have been invited to design, supply, install, test and commission overhead system, substations and integrate with other systems — signaling, control room, car depot, etc.

The electrical system will have 25 KV alternating current traction system with a design to operate the Metro at an optimum speed of 95km/hour. Although, the design has higher speeds but the actual speed, once commissioned, won’t touch 95km/hour.

The bids will be submitted by February-end and later on evaluated. It will be awarded to the bidders only in March or thereafter.

In all, there will be 27 stations but not all of them will be commissioned by December 2018. The entire alignment of 33.5km is scheduled for completion only in April 2020. The entire corridor will be thrown open for public use in four phases. In the first phase, the route between Kanjurmarg and Seepz will be commissioned in December 2018, whereas Aarey/Seepz-Bandra-Kurla Complex is scheduled for June 2019, followed by the line up to Science Museum in December 2019, and eventually the entire line.

Last May, the MMRC had received bids to construct the entire line with a schedule to award works by 2015-end, but it has got delayed by a few months. Officials claimed that it won’t impact the larger schedule of the project worth Rs23,136 crore. During the evaluation of bids of civil construction, authorities have realised the increase in civil construction cost.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

07:48

The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-III project is proposed to be operational by 2021 at a cost of Rs 23,136 crore.

If Kanjurmarg Land unavailable, Metro Rail car depot likely at Aarey

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has moved the Bombay high court seeking that a nearly two-decade-old stay on 135.7 acres of land in Kanjurmarg be lifted for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-III project. Assistant government pleader G W Mattos mentioned the application for urgent hearing before a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anil Menon on Monday. The bench has scheduled the case for hearing on Wednesday.

The High Court, in 1997, had restrained the state government from allotting the around 400-acre land in Kanjurmarg to any person following a legal dispute over it that dates back to 1953.

In an application filed by Mumbai suburban district collector Shekar Tanne, the state government has urged the HC to lift the status quo order on the land that is required to set up the Metro car shed and pre-cast yard for the Metro-III project. Pointing to the fact that Metro-III was a “public project of urgency”, the state said that even if the outcome of the litigation goes in favour of the persons claiming the land, they can be compensated at that stage. The state claimed that if the stay was not lifted, the entire Metro-III project would be stalled and would not just affect the city, but also the country, as it is an crucial mass transit link connecting the island city to transportation hubs as well as the domestic and international airports.

The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-III project is proposed to be operational by 2021 at a cost of Rs 23,136 crore. The project is part funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

The project proposes to have eight cars with a capacity of 2,500 passengers on the route, carrying around 14 lakh passengers every day, and help reduce 3.73 lakh vehicles daily on the route.

The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz project will be underground with the line to the car shed being over ground. The government had initially planned to construct the car shed at Aarey Colony but met with stiff opposition from environmentalists and local residents as the area falls in an eco-sensitive zone.

A government-appointed committee then searched for an alternative and narrowed down to the Kanjurmarg land for the car shed and for allied activities such as the pre-casting yard. However, the Kanjurmarg land was under a legal dispute since 1953. The claimants had launched a second round of litigation in 1996, and the following year the HC granted the status quo order.

Committee studied nine sites across the city and found three to be most feasible

An expert committee has recommended building the metro car depot for the proposed Metro 3 project at Kanjurmarg, but there are still chances that it may come up at Aarey Colony.

In its recommendations, the chief minister-appointed committee said that a double-deck depot at Aarey Colony may be a viable option in case the state government is unable to acquire the Kanjurmarg land, which is under litigation.

After studying nine sites across the city, the committee, headed by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) commissioner UPS Madan, found three sites feasible — Kanjurmarg, Backbay Reclamation, Aarey Colony — to build the Metro 3 (Colaba-BandraSeepz) car depot.

“The committee recommends that in case the land at Kanjurmarg is not made available for some reason, then the modified layout of a full service double-deck depot at Aarey Colony near the present site may be considered,” said one of the recommendations.

The double-deck car depot can be constructed on 20.82 hectares of the 30 hectares land earmarked for the project. It will also result in 446 trees being axed instead of the initial 2,298.

The double-deck facility, however, will increase the project cost by Rs 750 crore, but it can be constructed without any uncertainty, the report said.

The panel stated that the land in Kanjurmarg was the most feasible alternative, and suggested that metro depot on the land be used for both Metro 3 and the JVLR Kanjurmarg metro lines.

The committee cautioned the state government that the Metro 3 project may get delayed if the decision to hand over the land in Kanjurmarg to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), the nodal agency for the project, is not taken in three months.

On suggestions from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the committee also recommended use of both Aarey Colony and Kanjurmarg lands for operational efficiency.

“Another option will be to provide the main depot with stabling line and workshop at Kanjurmarg and with limited stabling facilities at Aarey Colony. By this option, intervention in Aarey can be minimised without compromising the operational requirements of the system. By adopting this option, substantial increase in cost can also be avoided,” the report said.

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Thursday, 9 July 2015

06:56

Mumbai Metro III carries Fresh Logo -MMRC

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), which is implementing the crucial Colaba- Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 corridor, from Monday, will carry itself with a fresh logo.

“The earlier logo was designed with an elevated Metro-3 corridor in mind as was planned originally. The new logo will present the organization more appropriately as it is more relevant, fresh and robust,” said UPS Madan, Director, MMRC and Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, while unveiling the new logo.

“It may also be noted that MMRC was initially floated as an State Government agency. However, the same now is a joint venture of State and the Central Government and will function as such,” said Madan.

“The infrastructure industry communicates with the world with its brands that are communicative and logos that are relevant to the business,” said Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, MMRC.

“We are looking forward to establish a fresh dialogue with the city, as it desperately is in need of this underground metro corridor, which will rid this city of its traffic woes and more importantly the hundreds of on-track deaths,” concluded Bhide.

Also present on the occasionwere Ambuj Bajpai, Under Secretary, MoUD, GoI; S.K. Gupta, Director (Projects), MMRC; A.A. Bhatt, Director (System), MMRC; D.G. Diwate, Chief General Manager (Tracks), MMRC; S.R. Nandargikar, Chief General Manager (Civil), MMRC; .R. Ramana, Executive Director (Planning), MMRC; Indranil Sarkar, Chief Finance Officer, MMRC; R.M. Gotaphode, Chief Accounts Officer, MMRC; Dilip Kawathkar, (GM-HR) and Ritu Deb.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

20:47

All four lines are for now proposed to be elevated corridors costing about Rs 350 crore per km.

All four lines are for now proposed to be elevated corridors costing about Rs 350 crore per km.

Mumbai: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had recently announced that the state government would ensure a Metro network to connect the entire city with assistance from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

The state government has drafted a new Metro rail master plan for Mumbai, which envisages six more lines and a total investment of about Rs 64,000 crore to achieve its target of rolling out a Metro network of over 130 km by 2020.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had recently announced that the state government would ensure a Metro network to connect the entire city with assistance from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which is headed by the chief minister, has drafted a plan for four new lines, adding 60 km. Two other lines are already on the cards — the 33.5 km Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ underground Metro and the 32 km Thane-Wadala-Kasarvadavali Metro. The 11.4-km Metro corridor from Versova to Ghatkopar has been operational since 2014.

UPS Madan, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, said, “In the four new lines itself, we will add 60 km of Metro network in the city. With two other planned corridors and the first line that is operational we will be able to meet the target.” The previous Congress-NCP government had also drafted a Metro rail master plan for Mumbai over a decade ago envisaging a 146.5-km Metro network by 2021. However, while the plan was altered several times, the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar elevated Metro was the only line from the plan to be taken up and completed.

The four new lines that BJP-led government has now planned are Andheri East to Dahisar East, Andheri West to Dahisar West, Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) to Kanjur Marg, and Bandra Kurla Complex to Mankhurd. All four lines are for now proposed to be elevated corridors costing about Rs 350 crore per km. Together, the four new Metro projects will cost of about Rs 21,000 crore. These will be constructed as cash contracts, but the government is yet to finalise sources for the funding. The Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ underground line, for which the tendering process is already underway, will cost Rs 23,136 crore, while the Thane-Wadala-Kasarvadavali Metro, which is currently planned as a partially underground corridor, will cost about Rs 20,000 crore. The state government may, however, consider constructing the latter on an elevated stretch, substantially reducing its cost.

Another Metro that was being planned for more than six years in different forms, the 40-km Dahisar-Bandra-Mankhurd line, has been dropped and will now be executed in three parts instead — Dahisar-Andheri, Andheri-Bandra, Bandra-Mankhurd. While the first and the third portions are parts of the new Metro master plan, the middle section from Andheri to Bandra is currently on hold. “We are still considering if the Andheri-Bandra Kurla Complex line should be taken up. All Metro corridors will intersect at certain points for commuters to easily change lines,” Madan said.

The DMRC will give a presentation to the chief minister about the feasibility, estimated ridership, and construction methodology, for the four new lines on June 17, and will aid in preparing a detailed project report.
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