Rapid population growth and the expansion of metropolitan regions are defining features of India’s economic growth story. The number of Indian cities with populations above one million increased from 23 in 1991 to 53 in 2011. The average population density has also snowballed to 464 persons/sq km in 2020, 13 …
Gayathri Nivas and S Praveen Dhaneshkar, Bangalore: The decision of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to issue show-cause notice to Gammon India may have implications for Namma Metro. The reason being that the Mumbai-based firm has been contracted for some of the construction work by the Bangalore Metro Rail …
The capital has often been riled for not overhauling its rickety, unreliable and, at times, killer public transport (read Bluelines). Even though Metro brought about a much-needed image makeover, Delhi has a lot of ground to cover. And Commonwealth Games 2010 came as a godsend opportunity for city government to …
It is impossible to replicate the Delhi Metro model Sunil Jain / New Delhi July 20, 2009, 0:04 IST Till even a few days ago, if you took a poll, despite the recent string of disasters in the Delhi Metro
Mumbai The first Metro project of Navi Mumbai appears to have run into a fresh roadblock, long before work has begun. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is reconsidering whether to opt for a Metro rail or to resume the suburban rail project it had opted against. CIDCO managing …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has observed that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had scaled down its testing requirements in four cases, company representatives did not witness the tests in eight cases, and that it tested material in non-accredited laboratories and did not preserve the reports. These tests were …
New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief Ellatuvalapil Sreedharan may have sparked off a nation-wide debate last year on whether allowing commercial exploitation of land by private metro rail developers as in the Hyderabad Metro Rail project was akin to
NEW DELHI: Haryana Government on Monday gave the sanction for the Guragaon Metro Rail link during a Cabinet meeting in Chandigarh. The work has been awarded to the consortium of ITNL ENSO Rail Systems Limited (IERS) and DLF. The 6.1 km link will have six stations from Sikandarpur, covering DLF …
E Sreedharan gets both the credit and the blame A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi July 15, 2009, 0:45 IST Everyone in Delhi feels good about Delhi Metro. It has given residents of the city a public transport network of which they can really be proud. It manages the network …
KOCHI: With only one more hurdle before the Kochi Metro Rail project, the authorities of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), the implementing agency for the project, has decided to prepare a detailed execution plan for the project. A meeting convened by DMRC Chairman E Sreedharan in Kochi on Wednesday …
Mumbai Mumbaikars will get their first glimpse of the Metro rail this October when the first rake will be shipped from Shanghai, China, for a trial run on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar link. The trial run of the four-coach rake will be held on a 100-metre stretch between D N Nagar and …
The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday scrapped the Rs 12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project contract awarded to Maytas Infra. Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Anam Rama Narayana Reddy said that a Cabinet meeting would be held on July 13 to decide whether to go for global retendering.
July 7: The state government has finally ejected the scam-hit Maytas and the consortium it heads from the Hyderabad Metro Rail project. After extending the deadline for financial closure several times, the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Tuesday directed officials to cancel the concession agreement signed with the …
Pune To get the metro project on track, Guardian Minister Ajit Pawar has called an all party meeting, which will be convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, in the city. Pawar said an all party meeting, with the support of MLCs and MLAs, will be conducted shortly which will discuss …
KOCHI: With the Planning Commission giving the green signal to the Kochi Metro Rail project, the ball is now in the court of the State Government. From land acquisition to augmentation of existing infrastructure, the State Government has to complete a lot of facilitation work before starting the construction. Of …
KOCHI: The traffic woes of Kochiites will finally be solved as the Kochi Metro Rail Project is getting ready to take off with the Planning Commission giving nod to the project. The implementation of the project is expected to ease the road traffic in the city limits and reduce the …
Studies on Resident Welfare Associations draw attention to their predominantly middle class and exclusive character. Based on survey and ethnographic data on such associations across diverse neighbourhoods in Bangalore, this paper reveals the fractured, often contradictory, nature of claims made by different sections of middle class. The category urban
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get the Rs 2082-crore Delhi-Faridabad Metro Project cleared from the Delhi Government. The Detailed Project Report of Delhi-Faridabad Metro (Badarpur to YMCA Chowk) was prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and this project having a length …
