Mumbai Metro's red line 7, yellow line 2A likely to be operational within 3-4 months: MMRDA

Mumbai Metros red line 7 and yellow line 2A are likely to be operational within the next three to four months informed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority MMRDASpeaking to ANI MMRDA Commissioner SVR Srinivas who earlier inspected the ongoing work and was briefed by the officials regarding the same expressed hope that the project will be finished within the next couple of monthsI do not want to make any announcement regarding a deadline as we are already late by over two years These lines were supposed to be functional in December 2019 but it got delayed for various reasons he statedI hope that these lines will be operational for the public in the next three to four months and two more lines will be in service within the next half a year he added The work on Mumbai Metros line 7 from Andheri East to Dahisar East red line and line 2A from Dahisar West to DN Nagar yellow line started in 2016 and the two lines were scheduled to be inaugurated in December 2019Speaking on the various reasons for the delay Srinivas said that pandemic was not the only reason for the delay as the lockdown started in March 2020 much later than the inauguration was scheduledThere were several issues like availability of space for entry and exit points of the stations encroachments of the worksites and some other reasons We had to face some litigations also and rehabilitations of residents from encroachment sites was also very tedious and timeconsuming he statedThe commissioner further revealed the catch up plan being carried out by MMRDA to expedite the ongoing work We have increased the number of our teams who are working in 24 by 7 365 days pattern now Instead of sequential work where the project is done in a sequenced manner one after the other we have started parallel work for various phases of the ongoing project Srinivas statedAlso Read BMC hires consultant to find out why tunnel on freeway is leakingApart from Mumbai we are also working in Bengaluru Some works are parallelly being done in Japan and Italy he added Srinivas also ensured the availability of metro coaches in time We have already received four trains and another will be delivered to us in a day or two Seven more coaches will come to us in few days So we will have 12 trains in a months time he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever