A latest report that was tabled in Lok Sabha confirms that round 743 km lengthy metro rail line is operational within the nation in a complete of 19 cities. The seventeenth Lok Sabha report additionally confirmed that over 1,000 km of metro rail line is beneath building in 27 cities, which additionally contains the 82 km-long Delhi-Meerut Regional Fast Transit System (RRTS) hall. The RRTS challenge features a rail size of 291 km stretching between Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Alwar. Speaking of the first-ever metro rail stretch, it was commissioned in 1984 in Kolkata. The three.4 km lengthy route comprised 5 stations between Esplanade and Bhowanipur stations.
“Metro challenge proposals of a number of cities, reminiscent of Delhi Section-IV (steadiness three corridors), Kochi Section-II, Chennai Metro Section II, Bangalore Metro Section-2A and 2B, Nashik, Nagpur Metro Section-II, Thane, Pune Metro Extension, Jammu, Srinagar, Kochi Section IA, Noida Metro Aqualine extension, and so on, are into consideration,” it added.
Many extra cities like Varanasi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Guwahati, and Chandigarh are aspiring to have metro rail system, the panel report stated.
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On Delhi Metro’s ridership, the report stated, “Precise Common Day by day Ridership (AADR) of Delhi Metro was 26.14, 28.00, 25.86, 25.93 and 50.65 lakh in 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20, respectively, in opposition to Common Day by day Ridership required for break-even of 16.07, 18.59, 16.26, 17.03 and 38.24 lakh, respectively, in the identical years.”
Regardless of a lapse of greater than 4 years, six of the 12 states the place metro rail networks are both operational or beneath building have been but to represent Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) as a statutory physique, in response to the report.
These six states are Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (in Mumbai solely) and Rajasthan, it stated.
For Delhi Metro, the report stated that “the method of organising of UMTA has been initiated in September, 2021. The proposal is into consideration of GNCTD (Delhi authorities) for taking vital motion”.
With inputs from PTI