Officials of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation met Chandigarh administration's top brass here today and discussed the ambitious project which proposes to link the city with the satellite towns of Mohali and Panchkula.
“The DMRC officials were here last week. They are here today and our officials are discussing various aspects of the project with them,” Mr K.K. Sharma, Advisor to the Chandigarh Administrator, told a news conference here.
The DMRC officials are here to scrutinise the proposed links and check their feasibility after which a Detailed Project Report (DPR) would be prepared.
Earlier in January, senior officials from Punjab and Haryana Government, RITES, a Central government enterprise, officials from DMRC and Chandigarh Union Territory officials had met to finalise the terms and conditions for the DPR for the metro project.
Mr Sharma stressed that integrated planning was a must in Chandigarh's peripheral areas. “It is important that the administrations of Chandigarh and its satellite towns work together so that problems like congestion on roads can be solved,” he said.
The Advisor said that the administration was also looking at the feasibility of having a dedicated bus lanes on some routes in the city to decongest the traffic and was planning to take help from Punjab Engineering College here and IIT, Delhi, in this regard.
Top brass of Chandigarh, including the Home Secretary, Mr Ram Niwas, the Finance Secretary, Mr V.K. Singh, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Brijendra Singh, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Pradeep Srivastava, and the Chandigarh SSP, Mr Naunihal Singh, were present at the news conference.