Mass transit cheer for Pune, Metro Train gets Rs 126.58 cr
By: Express News Service | Pune | Updated: March 1, 2015 2:39 am Pune, The long wait for a metro rail in the city seems to be coming to an end. The union government has a plan outlay of Rs 126.58 crore, equity of Rs 70.38 crore and loans of Rs 56.20 crore for the Pune metro rail in the 2015-16 budget. The metro rail service for Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Vijaywada and Vizag too has been included in the expenditure budget of the union government. Nagpur metro is also on government’s agenda as the plan outlay for Nagpur metro rail is estimated at Rs 143.85 crore. The DMRC submitted the detailed proposal for Pune metro rail in 2009 with an estimating project cost of Rs 7,984 crore. It was revised last year to Rs 10,183 crore. Now, the DMRC has estimated the cost to be Rs 10,869 crore for the two routes from Swargate to Pimpri-Chinchwad and Vanaz