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    The Assam State Cabinet approved the implementation of the Guwahati Metro Rail Project to ease growing traffic congestion. The Detailed Project Report prepared by the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority was submitted and approved. The first phase of construction will connect Narengi to Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The project aims to provide a fast, comfortable, and affordable mass transit system but specifics of funding and timelines are still unclear.

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    The Assam State Cabinet approved the implementation of the Guwahati Metro Rail Project to ease growing traffic congestion. The Detailed Project Report prepared by the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority was submitted and approved. The first phase of construction will connect Narengi to Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The project aims to provide a fast, comfortable, and affordable mass transit system but specifics of funding and timelines are still unclear.

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    The Assam State Cabinet approved the implementation of the Guwahati Metro Rail Project to ease growing traffic congestion. The Detailed Project Report prepared by the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority was submitted and approved. The first phase of construction will connect Narengi to Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The project aims to provide a fast, comfortable, and affordable mass transit system but specifics of funding and timelines are still unclear.

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    India, Guwahati Metro Rail Detailed Project Report

    Approved

    India, Guwahati Metro Rail Detailed Project Report


    Approved :On 18 January the Assam State Cabinet finally
    approved the implementation of the Guwahati Metro Rail
    Project.
    Assam Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary
    stated: “To ease the growing traffic congestion in
    Guwahati, the Cabinet has approved the implementation
    of the Metro Rail Project. The Detailed Project Report
    prepared by the Guwahati Metropolitan Development
    Authority has been submitted.”
    “To ease the growing traffic congestion in Guwahati, the
    Cabinet has approved the implementation of the Metro
    Rail Project”
    The previous Cabinet had approved the Detailed Project
    Report (DPR) prepared by RITES (“Rail India Technical
    and Economic Service”) in February 2016, and former
    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had laid the project
    foundation stone at Khanapara on 29 February of the
    same year.
    The function was attended by many dignitaries, including
    Indian National Congress politician Akon Bora, Chief
    Secretary Vinod Kumar Pipersenia and others.
    The previous Cabinet had also approved the formation of
    a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), the Guwahati Metro Rail
    Corporation Limited (GMRCL), for implementation of the
    project.
    However Mr. Patowary, on 18 January 2017, told the
    press clearly: “There was no DPR and no money had
    been sanctioned. The foundation stone was laid without it.
    Now, we have the DPR.”
    The DPR prepared by RITES in 2016 envisaged a 203 km
    metro, to be completed in three phases. Phase 1 was
    planned to be in total 61.4 km long, divided into lines as
    follows:
    Line 1: 22.6 km of elevated track from Dharapur to
    Narangi, 22 stations
    Line 2: 10 km of underground track from Mahatma Gandhi
    Road in Barowari to Khanapara, 10 stations
    Line 3: 19.4 km of elevated track from Jalukbari to
    Khanapara, 14 stations
    Line 4: 9.4 km from Rupnath Brahma Inter-State Bus
    Terminal (ISBT) to Paltan Bazaar, 8 stations
    The latest version of the DPR has changed the alignments
    and priorities: the first phase of construction will see
    Narengi connected to Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
    International Airport.

    According to Mr. Patowary the service will later be


    extended northwards to North Guwahati (on the other side
    of the Brahmaputra river), with Kamakhya being
    connected to Khanapara in the southeast in a further
    stage of development.
    The project is expected to reduce traffic congestion in the
    city by implementing a fast, comfortable, safe and
    affordable mass transportation system.
    A project office will soon be set up at the Guwahati
    Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) building in
    Bhangagarh. However it is still unknown when work will
    start and how long it will take before the first section will go
    into service.
    It is also unclear how the project will be funded: as per
    preliminary decisions the cost would be split into three
    portions, with the Central and State governments sharing
    two parts and the third part would be covered by funds
    obtained from financial institutions. But the size of the
    three portions hasn’t been quantified and the financial
    institutions haven’t yet been identified.

    Guwahati, located between the banks of the Brahmaputra


    river and the foothills of the Shillong plateau, is the largest
    city in the Indian northeastern state of Assam and one of
    the fastest growing cities in India.
    The current population is around the 1 million mark, but it
    is estimated that the city will count 2.8 million residents by
    2025.

    Writer: John Carlo Ottaviani

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