JAIPUR: Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) is waiting for the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) to conduct trials before throwing open the corridor to the public.
With the corporation having completed the civil work and is in the last lap of completing the remaining signalling work, a request has been sent to the CMRS to conduct the mandatory trials.
On Thursday, Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi, MLA Ameen Kagzi along with the JMRC chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) Samit Sharma took stock of the project.
Sharma said, “Civil work of the project is completed and request has been forwarded to the CMRS to conduct trials. We have already conducted a few internal trials. During the inspection, the commissioner will check track parameters, tunnels and the stations, calibration of the trains and firefighting system among others,” he said.
It was informed that due to the coronavirus, installation of automated fare collection has been delayed as machines are imported from South Korea.
The underground corridor, which is expansion of Phase-I (Mansarovar to Chandpole), is expected to be operational by March 2020.
The length of entire Metro corridor Phase 1A and 1B is 12.07km. After BJP came to power, the then chief minister Vasundhara Raje inaugurated Jaipur Metro Rail Project (Phase 1A) in June 2015. This corridor was made operational in 2015 after spending Rs 2,023 crore.
“The project cost of underground Phase-IB project is Rs 1,126 crore. Out of which Rs 969 crore has been provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),” said a senior offical
Sources at JMRC said the Metro Phase 1B missed its June 2018 deadline due to various reasons including Supreme Court ban on sand mining, shifting of seven temples and design change of two underground stations. The JMRC officials believe there will be increase in ridership after the Phase 1B) is operational. In absence of Phase 1B, the performance of Phase-IA of Jaipur Metro was ‘poor’ as the average ridership dipped.
“At present, an average 20,000 passengers commute through Metro daily, as against the projected figure of one lakh. But Phase-II is expected to boost the numbers,” said a senior official.
With the corporation having completed the civil work and is in the last lap of completing the remaining signalling work, a request has been sent to the CMRS to conduct the mandatory trials.
On Thursday, Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi, MLA Ameen Kagzi along with the JMRC chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) Samit Sharma took stock of the project.
Sharma said, “Civil work of the project is completed and request has been forwarded to the CMRS to conduct trials. We have already conducted a few internal trials. During the inspection, the commissioner will check track parameters, tunnels and the stations, calibration of the trains and firefighting system among others,” he said.
It was informed that due to the coronavirus, installation of automated fare collection has been delayed as machines are imported from South Korea.
The underground corridor, which is expansion of Phase-I (Mansarovar to Chandpole), is expected to be operational by March 2020.
The length of entire Metro corridor Phase 1A and 1B is 12.07km. After BJP came to power, the then chief minister Vasundhara Raje inaugurated Jaipur Metro Rail Project (Phase 1A) in June 2015. This corridor was made operational in 2015 after spending Rs 2,023 crore.
“The project cost of underground Phase-IB project is Rs 1,126 crore. Out of which Rs 969 crore has been provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),” said a senior offical
Sources at JMRC said the Metro Phase 1B missed its June 2018 deadline due to various reasons including Supreme Court ban on sand mining, shifting of seven temples and design change of two underground stations. The JMRC officials believe there will be increase in ridership after the Phase 1B) is operational. In absence of Phase 1B, the performance of Phase-IA of Jaipur Metro was ‘poor’ as the average ridership dipped.
“At present, an average 20,000 passengers commute through Metro daily, as against the projected figure of one lakh. But Phase-II is expected to boost the numbers,” said a senior official.
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