Chennai:
Velachery MRTS station is likely to have additional two floors which
will be used as office space in the next 18 months.
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority sources told Express that
tenders have been floated in this regard. The designs are likely to be
ready in the next couple of months after which the construction of
additional two floors will begin.
The two floor office space to be developed in 1.11 lakh square feet at
a cost of Rs 40 crore will boost railways attempt to have commercial
buildings in the MRTS stations.
Interestingly, the feasibility report which was submitted by Tamil
Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd has earlier suggested
for four floors and it was in public private partnership mode. Now the
project is being implemented with the government funds, sources added.
Interestingly, this also comes in the wake of Union Ministry of
Housing and Urban Development discussing the proposal of Chennai Metro
Rail to take over MRTS with Indian Railways.
Meanwhile, the work to complete the Rs 495 crore Phase II extension of
Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) between Velachery and St Thomas Mount
is still to pick up as the land acquisition process is still on. A
total of 28 beneficiaries have been identified and they have to be
compensated.
To a query on whether the beneficiaries would be compensated as per
the new land acquisition act, a CMDA official said that since the
guidelines of the new land acquisition act has yet to be framed, they
would be compensated as per the existing act.
“Till the guidelines are not framed by the state, the old act exists,”
the official said.
The proposed alignment and extension of Phase-II took place in the
year 2008 and till now 3.7 km out of the 5 km stretch of MRTS line has
been completed.
The project envisages development of the elevated MRTS on single
pillars along the median of the Inner Ring Road (IRR) from MBL Road to
St Thomas Road for a distance of about 5 km.
Velachery MRTS station is likely to have additional two floors which
will be used as office space in the next 18 months.
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority sources told Express that
tenders have been floated in this regard. The designs are likely to be
ready in the next couple of months after which the construction of
additional two floors will begin.
The two floor office space to be developed in 1.11 lakh square feet at
a cost of Rs 40 crore will boost railways attempt to have commercial
buildings in the MRTS stations.
Interestingly, the feasibility report which was submitted by Tamil
Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd has earlier suggested
for four floors and it was in public private partnership mode. Now the
project is being implemented with the government funds, sources added.
Interestingly, this also comes in the wake of Union Ministry of
Housing and Urban Development discussing the proposal of Chennai Metro
Rail to take over MRTS with Indian Railways.
Meanwhile, the work to complete the Rs 495 crore Phase II extension of
Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) between Velachery and St Thomas Mount
is still to pick up as the land acquisition process is still on. A
total of 28 beneficiaries have been identified and they have to be
compensated.
To a query on whether the beneficiaries would be compensated as per
the new land acquisition act, a CMDA official said that since the
guidelines of the new land acquisition act has yet to be framed, they
would be compensated as per the existing act.
“Till the guidelines are not framed by the state, the old act exists,”
the official said.
The proposed alignment and extension of Phase-II took place in the
year 2008 and till now 3.7 km out of the 5 km stretch of MRTS line has
been completed.
The project envisages development of the elevated MRTS on single
pillars along the median of the Inner Ring Road (IRR) from MBL Road to
St Thomas Road for a distance of about 5 km.
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