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Budget thrust on transport, water supply projects

Staff Reporter

49-km Metro Rail, eight urban renewal schemes announced

CHENNAI : The State Budget has given a thrust to transport and water supply projects aimed at benefiting Chennai.

A 49-km-long Metro Rail project, extension of the Mass Rapid Transit System up to St. Thomas Mount and eight schemes, costing Rs. 1,060 crore, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have been dealt with by the Budget.

Conceived as a permanent solution to the traffic congestion problem of the city, the Metro Rail Project will be implemented at a cost of about Rs. 9,000 crore. It will comprise two rail corridors and commence operations in five years. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation recently submitted a detailed project report. A provision of Rs. 50 crore had been made to undertake the preliminary work.

On the MRTS, work on the Luz Mylapore to Velachery phase was nearing completion.

Realising that the full benefit could be harnessed only if the project was extended up to St. Thomas Mount, the State Government had conveyed to the Centre its decision to bear two-thirds of the cost of the extension, which would be an estimated Rs. 416 crore.

An initial allocation of Rs. 20 crore had been made in the Budget.

The JNNURM covers areas such as drinking water, sewerage, solid waste management, housing for the poor, roads and slum improvement. In respect of Chennai, eight schemes had been sanctioned. Metrowater would execute a scheme to improve the city's water supply infrastructure at an estimated cost of Rs. 337 crore. The Chennai Corporation would take up a Rs. 255-crore scheme to upgrade the solid waste management system.

A water supply and sewerage scheme estimated to cost Rs. 42 crore to benefit residential areas and software parks on the Old Mamallapuram Road would be completed in a year.

Traffic and road safety works would be taken up in the city under the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III at a cost of Rs. 14 crore.

A detailed project report was now under preparation for developing the estuary of Adyar river.

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