GURUGRAM: The outcome of the primary Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) board meeting on Wednesday didn't relatively fit as much as the landmark instance. The announcement that stood out used to be in fact a deferment of the city's maximum awaited delivery undertaking. The town bus provider won't roll out this summer time and is likely to be launched neared autumn instead. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar introduced a brand new date: August 15.
Expectations from the primary GMDA meeting have been top, basically across the bus provider and metro tasks for Gurugram, which is scuffling with a protracted congestion drawback on account of its heavy dependence on automobiles. But there used to be not anything on metro's proposed extensions from Huda City Centre to the railway station, and further to Dwarka.
Those hoping the primary GMDA meeting would provide a last form to the established order of a clinical faculty and a multispecialty clinic in Sector 67 have been additionally left upset as the CM, who chaired the meeting, made no mention of those.
And if the bus provider does roll out in August, it will be without air-conditioned buses. "The city bus service is likely to be operational by August 15 this year. Initially, there will be around 200 buses that will be rolled out. These will be non-AC buses," Khattar said.
Officials said all four bus producers in the nation had expressed their inability to supply low-floor buses ahead of August and sought a 12 months's time for low-floor AC buses, which might mean the primary lot of air-conditioned carriages will hit the street best in 2019.
Asked concerning the metro tasks, GMDA CEO V Umashankar said, "We felt since the metro is not directly under GMDA but is under HMRTC (Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation), it would be the agency that will finalise the route."
Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh, who additionally attended the meeting, said the Khattar government will have to attach the Rapid Metro community with the proposed metro route to the railway station. "Rapid Metro is running into losses and there is a need to connect it with the new metro route that is being planned, otherwise it will shut shop. The authorities need to plan it in such a way that the line coming from Dwarka or Gurugram railway station is be connected to Rapid Metro so that it becomes viable," he said.
He additionally sharply criticized the federal government for failing to supply even a single multi-level parking in the town. "For the past 10 years, I have been hearing that multi-level parking will be developed but there has been no forward movement. There has been no development as far as healthcare and transport is concerned."
The Residents Advisory Council (RAC), which is to advise and supply steering to the GMDA, is but to be shaped. Nine extra status committees are but to take form as well. The chief minister said these committees will be shaped quickly.
Expectations from the primary GMDA meeting have been top, basically across the bus provider and metro tasks for Gurugram, which is scuffling with a protracted congestion drawback on account of its heavy dependence on automobiles. But there used to be not anything on metro's proposed extensions from Huda City Centre to the railway station, and further to Dwarka.
Those hoping the primary GMDA meeting would provide a last form to the established order of a clinical faculty and a multispecialty clinic in Sector 67 have been additionally left upset as the CM, who chaired the meeting, made no mention of those.
And if the bus provider does roll out in August, it will be without air-conditioned buses. "The city bus service is likely to be operational by August 15 this year. Initially, there will be around 200 buses that will be rolled out. These will be non-AC buses," Khattar said.
Officials said all four bus producers in the nation had expressed their inability to supply low-floor buses ahead of August and sought a 12 months's time for low-floor AC buses, which might mean the primary lot of air-conditioned carriages will hit the street best in 2019.
Asked concerning the metro tasks, GMDA CEO V Umashankar said, "We felt since the metro is not directly under GMDA but is under HMRTC (Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation), it would be the agency that will finalise the route."
Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh, who additionally attended the meeting, said the Khattar government will have to attach the Rapid Metro community with the proposed metro route to the railway station. "Rapid Metro is running into losses and there is a need to connect it with the new metro route that is being planned, otherwise it will shut shop. The authorities need to plan it in such a way that the line coming from Dwarka or Gurugram railway station is be connected to Rapid Metro so that it becomes viable," he said.
He additionally sharply criticized the federal government for failing to supply even a single multi-level parking in the town. "For the past 10 years, I have been hearing that multi-level parking will be developed but there has been no forward movement. There has been no development as far as healthcare and transport is concerned."
The Residents Advisory Council (RAC), which is to advise and supply steering to the GMDA, is but to be shaped. Nine extra status committees are but to take form as well. The chief minister said these committees will be shaped quickly.
No city buses for Gurugram this summer, launch pushed to August
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