Nine international firms have showed interest in providing rolling stock—trains, signaling, communication and tracks-—for the 11-km Belapur-Kharghar-Pendhar Metro rail line in Navi Mumbai.
The selected company will not only provide eight trains, but will also maintain the system for the subsequent three years of operation.
The nine consortia who have bought applications are—Hyundai Rotem, Balfour Betty and Nippon Signal; Siemens AG & Siemens India; L&T Construction; Ansaldo STS; CAF and CAF India; OHL-Obrascon Huartelainsa; Bombardier Transport; CSR Nanjing Puzhen; and Alstom India Ltd.
The Rs.2,111-crore project to create a 11-km viaduct for the Metro with 11 stations, with most of it coming up in Kharghar, was launched in May 2011. Out of 300 pillars, 105 have already been built with nearly 25 spans of the viaduct in place. Cidco expects to complete construction of the viaduct by March 2014 and stations by September 2014.
While the project’s civil work will cost Rs.1,011 crore, the rolling stock will cost Rs.1,020 crore. This Metro route is part of the 24-km line between Belapur and the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport via Kharghar, Taloje and Pendhar. The 11-km line is a challenging task as it will come over a creek, railway line, Pune highway.
Over 8,000 people are expected to use the rail every hour in one direction as total eight trains will be run at a frequency of eight minutes.
According to planners, the Metro will be extended till Khandeshwar near the proposed airport from Taloja in the next phase. The next phase between Pendhar and the airport will be taken up as soon as the airport construction takes off.
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