City’s Metro Rail project work, may shoot up from the present estimation of Rs 14,600 Crores to about Rs.20, 000 Crore because of several aspects including Rupee declination and sky-high prices across construction and labor charges.
A metro rail project official informed that the challenging part of the project, which involves the digging of tunnel under the Cooum River has just started.
With the metro rail construction work along Koyambedu and Alandur on the go, the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has made an initiative to integrate property development near stations.
Chennai Metro Rail Limited will divert the existing water transmission line and interconnect it with the pipeline at GST Road near Meenambakkam domestic terminal.
Test-runs are being conducted on for a distance of 6 km both tracks of Koyambedu to Ashok Nagar section. The planned schedule is to start the metro train operations for the public from October.
