MUMBAI
Construction of the third metro line Colaba-SEEPZ via Bandra has moved a step further with the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) short-listing civil consortia. Interestingly, Chinese firms have shown keen interest in the project.
Nine consortia have been finalised in the pre-qualification bids, whereas five have been disqualified from the 32.5-km-long underground project.
As per the list available with dna, a majority of the qualified foreign partners for various Indian bidders are from China — China Railway Tunnel Group, China Railway 3 Engineering Group, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering, among others.
The rolling stock (rakes) of the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar line too are from China, manufactured in Nanjing.
On August 26, bhoomipujan for the Rs23,136-crore third line was held at Marol.
The project will connect Cuffe Parade, Nariman Point, Fort, Girgaum, Mahalaxmi, Worli, Bandra-Kurla Complex, airport, and SEEPZ. Construction work on the car depot planned at Aarey Colony will commence in September.
It will have passenger interchange facilities with Central Railway at CST, Western Railway at Churchgate, Mumbai Central and Mahalaxmi, Metro Line 1 at Marol Naka, Metro Line 2 at Bandra-Kurla Complex, and Monorail at Mahalaxmi; all facilities are being designed to provide seamless travel.
As per the plans, platforms of the 26 stations on the route will have screen doors. A platform screen doors acts as a barrier, preventing commuters from falling on the tracks. The doors open only when doors of the metro rail and platform are parallel to each other.
These have already been installed at the stations of Delhi Airport Express Metro.
QUALIFIED CONSORTIA
AFCONS Infrastructure Ltd-Kyivmetrobud
Continental Engineering Corporation-ITD Cementation India Ltd-Tata Projects
DOGUS-SOMA
IL&FS Engineering and Construction-China Railway 25th Bureau Group
J Kumar Infraprojects-China Railway 3 Engineering Group
Larsen & Toubro-Shanghai Tunnel Engineering
OSJC Moscow Metrostroy-Hindustan Construction Company
Pratibha Industries-Guandong Tuantian Engineering
Unity Infraprojects-IVRCL-China Railway Tunnel Group
DISQUALIFIED CONSORTIA
PIIL-CTCEC
Obrascon Huarte Lain-SK Engineering & Construction
Sacyr Construction-Cooperativa Muratori & Cementisti-Essar Projects
SaliniImpregilo-Gammon India
Strabag AG-Patel Engineering
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