Mumbai Metro trial run flagged off
- 5 years ago
India News: It has been 2,505 days or little less than seven years, since the foundation stone for the first corridor of the Mumbai metro rail was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The corridor is still not operational, with only trial runs under way.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who flagged off a trial run on Wednesday at the Versova metro station in Mumbai, said December 2013 would be the new timeline for completing the project.
The deadline for the 11.4-km corridor on elevated tracks, which will connect the western suburb of Versova to the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar through suburban Andheri, has already been extended twice.Talking to the media after the flag-off, Chavan accepted that the project had been inordinately delayed.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who flagged off a trial run on Wednesday at the Versova metro station in Mumbai, said December 2013 would be the new timeline for completing the project.
The deadline for the 11.4-km corridor on elevated tracks, which will connect the western suburb of Versova to the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar through suburban Andheri, has already been extended twice.Talking to the media after the flag-off, Chavan accepted that the project had been inordinately delayed.