Kochi Metro Rail Ltd’s director board would be reconstituted, following which the new board would take all decisions related to the construction of the metro rail.

Electricity and Transport Minister Aryadan Mohammed on Tuesday said that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will execute the Kochi metro rail project work. Addressing a press conference soon after the last director board meeting of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd, in its current format, Mr. Mohammed said the Cabinet had in the month of March decided that the construction work should be bestowed on the DMRC.

The proposed Kochi Metro will be implemented by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

A 35-km Metro rail service was announced on Monday to connect Noida with Greater Noida. The public-private partnership (PPP) model will be adopted for the Rs 7,500-crore project.

While Kochi is on a high after the Union Cabinet issued its nod for the Kochi Metro Rail, agitations are also on the rise against the project.

On Wednesday, the Vyttila-Petta Road agitation committee blocked the Public Works Department (PWD) officials, who were carrying out land survey for acquisition, at Vyttila junction. The agitators pointed out that the survey is being carried out without any official confirmation about the road alignment. Following the protests, the team of PWD officials comprising executive engineer Hashim, Tripunithura section assistant engineer Aniroopa and overseer Joy returned without undertaking the survey.

The land owners on Banerjee Road and MG Road who had to surrender land for metro rail-related infrastructure projects have seemingly softened their stand with the Union Cabinet granting its final nod for the city’s dream project on Tuesday.

Having earlier taken a stiff stand that they would approach the courts, the land owners climbed down and said that they were waiting for a discussion with the Chief Minister.

Promoters of at least four metro rail projects in the country have approached electricity regulators and state governments seeking cheaper electricity, arguing that rising cost of power will otherw

The much-awaited nod for the proposed Kochi Metro Rail project is likely to be given by the Union Cabibnet on Tuesday.

The project is expected to provide reliable, safe, energy-efficient, comfortable, affordable, and non-polluting rail-based mass transit system for Kochiites, who have to grapple with jammed roads every day. The value of the project at ‘current cost’, which was approved by the Cabinet, is pegged at `5,126 crore.

In a big boost to infrastructure-starved Kerala, the Centre on Tuesday cleared a Rs 5,182-crore metro rail project for Kochi, the state’s commercial nerve-centre.

In yet another push to bring a marked development in Chennai’s civic infrastructure, which would significantly contribute to decongest traffic, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday ordered building of flyovers and subways at an estimated cost of `231.68 crore.

According to an official release here, a flyover and a subway will be built at the intersection of Shandy Road and Kundrathur Road in Pallavaram at a cost of Rs 80.74 crore.

Interested in replicating Mumbai’s model for rehabilitating families affected by infrastructure projects, a delegation from Brazil visited the city on Wednesday and went to construction sites of major projects such as the Metro, Sahar Elevated Road and the Milan subway over-bridge.

Alessandra Campanaro, infrastructure finance specialist at World Bank in Washington DC, led a three-member team from the metropolitan planning authority at Rio de Janeiro. The delegation is in Mumbai for a workshop on metropolitan planning organised by the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit on June 29.