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  MMRC shifts offices along Metro-3 route

MMRC shifts offices along Metro-3 route

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : May 15, 2016, 1:26 am IST
Updated : May 15, 2016, 1:26 am IST

In order to kickstart construction work for the 33.5-km-long underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 corridor, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has begun shifting its offices and officials alo

In order to kickstart construction work for the 33.5-km-long underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 corridor, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has begun shifting its offices and officials along to the route of the project. The first office of the employment exchange officer in Churchgate, which is required by the MMRC, has agreed to move to an alternate location.

“We are soon going to start civil work for the project and we need site offices for the same and many government and private organisation have been requested to give their space and in exchange we will relocate them to a temporary location,” said a senior MMRC official.

The MMRC has also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a private firm for using its land for the construction of Metro-3 corridor.

According to another MMRC official, “The corporation has also sent a proposal to the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Hudco) which has its office in Fort, and Hudco has also agreed to give part of its space for the MMRC officials to have their site office.

For the construction of Metro-3 corridor, the MMRC will require around 25.04 hectares of land on a temporary basis from private and government institutes and around 8.70 hectares of land permanently for the project. According to MMRC officials, it has sent proposals for acquiring around 5.45 hectares to private institutes, out of which around 3 hectares will be for permanent usage and the rest on temporary basis.

Recently, the MMRC also floated pre-qualification bids for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of rolling stock (metro coaches) for the project.

The work on the project has missed deadlines due to various reasons like protests from environmentalists over construction of metro depot at Aarey Colony and the approval from the Japanese Cooperation International Agency (JICA), which is funding 57 per cent of the total cost of the project. The MMRC got JICA’s approval last month.