The Capital’s first monorail corridor project will come up in the Trans-Yamuna area with the Delhi Government giving in-principal approval to a link between Shastri Park Metro station and Trilokpuri via Old Iron Bridge.
The 10.8-kilometre corridor would be on an elevated single rail with 12 stations on its route — Shastri Park Metro Station, Rajaram Kohli Marg, Geeta Colony, Patparganj Road, Nirman Vihar Metro Station on Vikas Marg, Ganesh Nagar, New Patparganj Road and Sanjay Lake to terminate parallel to the proposed Trilokpuri Metro Station. The total cost is estimated at `1,655 crore and the corridor will be completed by January 2017.
A proposal to this effect will be brought before the Cabinet soon. This was decided after a presentation given by RITES on this mode of transport at a high-level meeting, attended by East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, urban development Minister Ashok Kumar Walia, transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, industries Minister Ramakant Goswami, MLAs Anil Choudhury, Deputy Speaker Ambarish Gautam, Chief Secretary Praveen Kumar Tripathi, principal secretary UD, R Chandaramohan, MD, DSIIDC, Chetan B Sanghi and other officers.
The monorail system is in use in Tokyo (Japan) from 1963, Kuala-Lumpur (Malaysia) for the last five years and China for the last three years.
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