Maharashtra Govt Approves Pune Metro’s 4.4 KM Nigdi Extension
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Maharashtra state government’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the extension of Pune Metro’s 16.589 km Purple Line (Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation – Swargate) to the northern suburb of Nigdi.
This 4.41 km elevated extension from PCMC will consist of 3 stations at Chinchwad, Akurdi and Nigdi, and will be implemented by Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro) at an estimated cost of Rs. 946.76 crore.
Within that, the central government will fund 10%, state government and PCMC will fund 30% (Rs. 170.30 crore from state), and the rest 60% will be funded through foreign loans. Daily ridership for the 21 km entire line (Swargate – Nigdi) in 2023 has been estimated at a highly optimistic figure of 4.95 lakh.
Here’s the cabinet’s approval decision which refers this extension as 1A:
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The project’s detailed project report (DPR) was prepared by Maha-Metro and submitted for PCMC’s approval in September 2018. At that time, it had been estimated to cost Rs. 1050 and envisioned building a new depot in Nigdi. It’s unknown if that is still part of the current plan.
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With this exciting development, the project’s proposal and DPR will be sent to the central government’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), and MahaMetro will begin talks with lenders. I see tendering for its construction starting no sooner than mid-2022.
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– TMRG
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