Spelling cheers for Mumbaikars, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has completed the overhead electrification work on two suburban metro lines where it will start test runs from Monday (May 31), an official said here on Wednesday.
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Palghar township to come up on 337 hectares of Cidco land
ByClara LewisClara Lewis / Updated: May 24, 2021, 11:29 IST
(This story was first published in TOI on May 24, 2021)
Mumbai: A new, planned satellite township will be built in
Palghar, about 115km from Mumbai. This will be the second such township after
Navi Mumbai, the development of which started in the 1970s.
Expression of interest invited
The township will be developed on 337 hectares given to the
City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) in lieu of constructing the district headquarters, spending Rs 1,000 crore. Cidco has been given 400 hectares, of which 70 hectares is prime sea-facing land. The 337 hectares, which can accommodate 35
Mumbai: 20 km trial run to begin anytime soon on Metro 2A and 7
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has achieved a significant milestone in the overhead cable work of metro line 2A (Dahisar to DN Nagar) and 7 (Dahisar East to Andheri East) work. On Monday, it informed that the chief electrical inspector of the government of India (CEIG) did inspection via video call of Over Head Equipment (OHE) line of Metro line 2A successfully for the section from Dahisar to Kamraj Nagar.
Due to the prevailing pandemic situation and travel restrictions, the MMRDA shared updates to the inspection officer using digital platform so the proposed plan of metro trial run could be achieved. Now the charging OHE on this metro line 2A for the said stretch will be done on Tuesday. Thereafter, the proposed 20km trial run (Aarey to Kamraj Nagar) will begin.