'Phase II expansion of Mumbai metro awaiting clearance'.

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) plan of setting up a new network of metro rail across Mumbai is gathering speed. Last year, first phase of metro corridor connecting Versova to Ghatkopar with an 11.40 km elevated corridor was inaugurated.

This year the MMRDA wants to initiate metro projects worth Rs. 73,000 crore so that citizens of Mumbai region could get to travel seamlessly on about 120 km of metro track in the next five to seven years.

Commissioner of MMRD, Urvinder Pal Singh Madan said the funding for most of the projects is tied up now and it is a matter of clearances and executions.


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