Puri highlights metro infra policy

India has called for devising technologies to help in constructing and operating Metro systems in a sustainable manner, as metro lines expands to 700-km over next five years.

Making the all, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Puri, pointed out the growth in metro lines in India to 700-km in the next five years.

The country has undergone a metro rail revolution in the last decade, from a humble beginning of just 8-km in 200 to 425-km of metro lines are operational as of now in 10 different cities.

He was addressing the Communities of Metros (COMET) meeting in New Delhi on 6 Mar 2018.

He highlighted the government policy that enables greater private participation, innovative financing, value capture finance and provides more options of financing by the government for creation of metro rail infrastructure.

This policy will go a long way in further boosting the growth of metro rail, said Puri.

The Minister underline Delhi Metro success with an operational network of 231-km, carrying three million people every day.

He expressed confidence that within a year the network length in India’s National Capital Region will cross the 350-km and will place Delhi among the first five cities having the largest metros in the world.

The success of the Delhi Metro has shown the other cities in India that such large projects can be efficiently executed and operated, he said. fii-news.com