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Metro Rail take four years to go Greater Noida

11. March 2010

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Greater Noida from Noida’s way to bring the Metro. Construction will begin this year. To complete it in four years time DMRC has sought, but the Authority has demanded earlier to start Metro. Wednesday of the subway Detaild DMRC project report (DPR) submitted to the Authority. Greater Noida Phase One construction of the Metro DMRC [...]

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Mundka Metro line to open by March-end

22. February 2010

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First Line On Standard Gauge West Delhi locales like Paschim Vihar, Peeragarhi and Madhipur are coming closer to the heart of the capital next month. The new Delhi Metro line from Inderlok to Mundka, via Punjabi Bagh, will be opened for use by the end of March. With this, commuters will be able to traverse [...]

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Metro rail from Gurgaon to IGI

19. February 2010

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The Haryana Government has decided to connect Gurgaon with the Indira Gandhi International Airport through a high-speed Metro rail, besides taking up the issue of additional road links between Delhi and the towns of National Capital Region. A spokesman of the Haryana Town and Country Planning Department said the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRCL) had [...]

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No OK for Ghaziabad Metro extension plans

13. February 2010

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The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) officials on Friday denied having received an approval for the second phase of Metro-extension plans in Ghaziabad. At a meeting with the state officials earlier this week, the GDA was asked to find out the finance options for the second part. It had earlier been reported that the approval for [...]

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Metro’s LINE 5 Fifteen-km Mundka-Inderlok line to open in March

12. February 2010

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Delhi Metro’s first standard gauge line is set to open in March. The 15-kilometre section between Mundka in west Delhi and Inderlok is the first line that connects two already operational lines — Dilshad Garden - Rithala Line (Line 1) at Inderlok Metro station and Noida - Dwarka line (line 3) at Kirti Nagar metro station. While [...]

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Gurgaon Metro rail trial run on Jan 29

16. January 2010

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The Millennium City’s wait for the national capital’s biggest infrastructure achievement of the last decade is slowly but steadily coming to an end. The Delhi Metro’s trial run on the tracks in Gurgaon will take place on January 29. The stretch is part of the metro’s 14-km-long Qutub Minar-Gurgaon line. Union Minister of Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy [...]

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Delhi govt to pay Rs 600 cr for third phase of Metro

9. January 2010

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Cash-strapped Delhi government has now been told that it would need to cough up approximately Rs 600 crore for the third phase of Delhi Metro. This, after Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) reportedly expressed a reluctance to fund more than 30% of phase III. JBIC had given 70% of the funds for phases I [...]

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METRO’S ANAND VIHAR LINE MAY OPEN NEXT WEEK

1. January 2010

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For hundreds of residents from several East Delhi colonies and those from Ghaziabad, this should come as a much-awaited relief from the tiring commute to the city. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) Anand Vihar line is likely to start next week. “The Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety is to inspect the line (Yamuna Bank ­ [...]

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Yamuna Bank-Anand Vihar Metro trial runs begin

13. December 2009

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Residents of East Delhi and Ghaziabad will soon be able to enjoy the comfort of travelling in the Metro. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) started trial runs on the much awaited Yamuna Bank-Anand Vihar section on Saturday. The 6.17-km Yamuna BankAnand Vihar corridor, which will be the fourth line to be added to the Delhi [...]

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Anand Vihar Metro Rail trial run starts Dec 10

8. December 2009

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All construction is complete. The Metro line & its 5 stations will open by month-end The clock has started ticking again. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is going to start trial runs for its new stretch from Yamuna Bank to Anand Vihar this week. The commencement of trial runs, which marks the completion of construction, [...]

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Metro’s first green station coming up

30. November 2009

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GURGAON STOP The terminal station will have environmental certification WATER WILL BE CONSERVED IN RUNNING THE MALL AS FAR AS POSSIBLE: WASTE WATER BE RECYCLED… RAIN WATER HARVESTED. By next January, as you hop off the metro at the upcoming station in Sector 29 in Gurgaon, not only will you step into a psychedelic shopping and [...]

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Metro undecided on Anand Vihar launch

28. November 2009

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TRACK RECORD Ridership rises, anxious moments await DMRC Delhi Metro’s ridership crossed the 10 lakh figure. On Thursday, the aggregate figure of people who’d travelled on the metro since it started on December 25, 2002, crossed the one billion (100 crore) mark. While increasing ridership has sparked jubilation in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), it has also made [...]

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Gujarat, Rlys to jointly build Ahmedabad-Gandhi nagar metro

27. November 2009

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The city could be getting closer to its dream of riding a metro train after the Gujarat government agreed to bear 50 per cent of the project cost on lines of the Chennai metro project model. The wholly-elevated metro rail project is expected to cost Rs 7,000 crore. The state government has recently set up a [...]

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Begin Metro project soon: CM

20. November 2009

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The managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, (DMRC), E Sreedharan, on Thursday met chief minister Ashok Gehlot to discuss the progress of metro rail project in the city. Gehlot wanted the Metro rail project to begin soon. He urged all officials to work in tandem so that project bottlenecks may be overcome quickly. He asked [...]

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Panel set up for Metro to Faridabad

12. November 2009

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Central government has set up a threemember committee to facilitate the extension of Delhi Metro to Faridabad and Bahadurgarh on Wednesday. The panel will submit a report soon considering Haryana government’s continuous effort to expedite the extension plan. Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy announced this after chairing a meeting of the National Capital Region [...]

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