Many metro projects were being delayed because of late environmental clearances, land acquisition troubles and protests.
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Lax work by contractors has been pointed out as the primary reason for the delays in Navi Mumbai metro project by CIDCO officials. “The first consortium of contractors failed to complete the work till the fixed deadline and were terminated.” said Sanjay Nadgauda, Additional Chief Engineer at CIDCO.
MUMBAI: Monorail, which has been billed as a white elephant in the past, is expected to incur a net loss of Rs 529 crore in the current financial year (2023-24), while Metro lines 2A and 7 have reported Rs 280-crore loss for 2022-23.
They're driven by people. Although they are attempting to automate them. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked out yet. Recently, they tried it on the 7 line but ended up causing massive delays to passengers when the trains would fail to position themselves correctly at stations.
The financial capital of India received its first Metro in June 2014, and after nearly 8 years, Mumbai welcomed its two new metro corridors 2A and 7, which are now fully operational. New Metro flagged off the new metro lines 2A and 7 on 2 April 2022.
There are currently 16 operational rapid transit (Officially and popularly known as 'Metro') systems in fifteen cities across India, with Delhi Metro being the largest.
While the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited is responsible for all metro rail projects being developed in Maharashtra, except for those in the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority is the authority that is responsible for maintaining the metro system in the Greater ...