{"id":28207,"date":"2017-07-20T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:38:11","slug":"trivandrum-metro-rail-project-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-metro-rail-project-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gvnt To Speedup Trivandrum Metro Rail Project &#8211; Rolling Stock To be Finalised Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Government has decided to speed up the Land acquisition for the much-awaited Metro projects in Trivandrum Kozhikode. The decision to speed up the metro project was taken at a high-level meeting Chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and attended by DMRC principal adviser E. Sreedharan.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Rolling Stock to be purchased soon<\/h2>\n<p>In the meeting, it was decided to setup a dedicated committee select the rolling stock. The government has asked DMRC to finalise the rolling stock\u00a0while waiting for the Centre&#8217;s approval for the Rs,6728 crores mega project.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling stock will be either based on linear induction motor or rotary motor. DMRC has proposed an 18-metre-long and 2.5-metre-wide rolling stock, with aluminium or stainless steel body.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Land Acquisition to start soon<\/h2>\n<p>The earlier government has given the nod for the land acquisition for the construction of four flyovers in the Technocity-Karamana corridor in\u00a0Trivandrum. The process will be speeded up.<\/p>\n<p>However, DMRC has to wait for the mandatory nod from the Union Ministry of Urban Development to take up other works\u00a0related to Trivandrum Metro Project.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Nod Four Flyovers<\/h2>\n<p>Approval has been given to start the preparatory work for the 4 flyovers which cost Rs.272.84 in the Technocity-Karamana Light Metro corridor in the capital. After this, land acquisition will be started.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Extending Metro to Pappanamcode and to Medical College Junction<\/h2>\n<p>DMRC is also exploring the feasibility of expanding the Trivandrum Metro to Pappanamcode on NH 66 and the flyover at Ulloor to the Medical College junction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Government has decided to speed up the Land acquisition for the much-awaited Metro projects in Trivandrum Kozhikode. The decision to speed up the metro project was taken at a high-level meeting Chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and attended by DMRC principal adviser E. Sreedharan. Rolling Stock to be purchased soon In the meeting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452,493],"class_list":["post-28207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum","tag-trivandrum-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28208,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions\/28208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}