Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has dropped the concept of constructing the Mumbai Metro-3 carshed at Bandra Kurla Complicated (BKC). For now, not less than. Of the agency view that the 102-acre land at Kanjurmarg earmarked by it for the challenge, which is now underneath litigation, was probably the most appropriate for the challenge, the state authorities has as a substitute determined to arrange a high-level committee underneath Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar to re-examine the authorized, technical and monetary feasibility of constructing an built-in carshed at Kanjurmarg.
With a Bombay Excessive Courtroom keep halting the carshed building work until February, the CS-headed panel may also be requested to look afresh for different areas to relocate the challenge. Sources confirmed that formal orders relating to the formation of the committee can be issued in a day or two.
This would be the third panel appointed for the carshed challenge. In 2015, the then Devendra Fadnavis-led state authorities had appointed a panel underneath then MMRDA chief UPS Madan. Later, in 2019, one other committee was shaped, headed by Extra Chief Secretary (Finance) Manoj Saunik, which was appointed by Thackeray himself for learning doable options to the carshed location at Aarey.
On December 17, nonetheless smarting on the Excessive Courtroom’s keep on building of the carshed at Kanjurmarg, the Shiv Sena had postured that the opportunity of relocating the challenge on the BKC land, a portion of which has already been earmarked for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet practice challenge, was among the many choices being thought-about.
However, sources stated that each Thackeray and NCP president Sharad Pawar have been of the view {that a} “tit-for-tat” response to the Centre would ship a improper message and wouldn’t be good for town’s growth, confirmed sources. Additionally, the Saunik committee had discovered {that a} completed portion of an already tunneled portion for the Metro rail work must be redone if the carshed have been to be constructed on the BKC land.
In line with sources, the choice to kind a brand new panel had additionally been taken within the wake of the Centre’s objection to construct the carshed at Kanjurmarg within the absence of an in depth techno-financial feasibility examine of constructing an built-in carshed at Kanjurmarg.
The Centre has written a letter to the state on this regard on December 1, earlier than the court docket’s keep on the Kanjurmarg land. The Centre holds 50 per cent fairness within the Mumbai Metro-3 challenge.
Additionally, the state administration, through the earlier regime, had argued earlier than numerous courts that the Kanjurmarg land was not a viable possibility, whereas justifying its transfer to construct the carshed at Aarey. In wake of the Mumbai Metropolitan Area Growth Authority’s stance that an built-in carshed of three or extra traces may be constructed on the Kanjurmarg facility, the brand new panel can be requested to report on its technical facets, sources stated.
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