The entire 20-km monorail corridor between Chembur and Jacob Circle (Saat Rasta) is unlikely to open to the public by the end of this month, as speculated earlier.
The reason: the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has given five companies time till February 28 to submit bids for operation and maintenance of the corridor. The bidders are ILFS-Rail India Limited, Reliance Infrastructure, Aecom, BVG India Limited and Scomi Engineering Limited.
The 8.8-km corridor between Chembur and Wadala was commissioned in February 2014. The services have remained suspended since November 9 last year owing to a fire. The remainder 10.6-km corridor between Wadala and Jacob Circle has missed several deadlines. Earlier, there were speculations that the entire line will be made operational by February 1. Read More…
