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The first metro rail corridor project in the city is beginning to move forward with a Chinese company bagging the Rs 604 crore contract to supply 16 trains. read more »
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Mumbai’s ambitious metro rail project today received a shot in the arm with the Centre announcing the sanctioning of Rs 4,500 crore for its completion.

“Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had requested for funds from the Centre. The Centre is sanctioning Rs 4,500 crore as viability gap funding for the Mumbai Metro Rail Project (MMRP)” Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said.

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Constructing a 233-metre concrete bridge 17 metres above the ground with crush-packed local trains zipping past down below; constructing a viaduct at 7 metres above the Andheri flyover on Western Express Highway—that’s a sampling of the engineering challenges whose high-precision solutions are getting fine-tuned in the office of the Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd.

That’s why, K P Maheshwari, directo read more »
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Three face-offs over multi-crore projects in the last 26 months.
The latest battleground for India’s richest brothers is the bid to build the second Metro rail project in Mumbai, which will have 27 stations costing nearly Rs 6,192 crore. read more »
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While the city’s first Metro Rail is at a stage where the company executing the project “can start construction very soon” in the words of its director, Mumbaiites won’t see any work beginning just yet. read more »
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Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd—the special purpose vehicle executing the 11.4-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro Rail corridor—will inaugurate the first public information centre at Saki Naka. read more »
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"The Navi Mumbai SEZ has been cleared with the condition that promoters should build, within a year, the infrastructure that would ensure contiguity on the 1,250-hectare land where it is coming up in Maharashtra," Commerce Secretary and Chairman of BoA G K Pillai said.

With timely completion of this project and Metro rail, coastal transport etc, life should improve in and around Mumbai. Do w read more »
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Anil Ambani-led consortium, which is developing the ambitious metro rail project in metropolis, has some some good news for Mumbaikars on Tuesday.

Burdened as they are with high transportation costs and uncomfortable public transport facilities, news that the cost of travel between the suburbs of Versova and Ghatkopar will be as low as Rs 6 should indeed be a welcome news for Mumbai commuters. read more »
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