The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC) will roll out a new line in 2023 that will join the Aarey Colony with the Bandra Kurla Complex or BKC. It will be part of the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro-3 corridor. The entire corridor is scheduled to launch in two phases.
The company said in a statement that it has received eight coaches of the metro train that were manufactured in the Alstom Plant in Andhra Pradesh. The MMRC will carry out tests of the train at a five-km-long stretch of the Sariput Nagar and Sahar line. This will be the first phase of the Metro Line 3 in Mumbai.
On November 30, the company completed the tunnelling process for which the company used 17 tunnel machines and 1700 workmen. Approximately, 50 percent of the track-laying work has been completed. The company has already installed 105 escalators, 10 platform doors and 12 display systems. In the first half of 2023, the line will be operational.
While talking to Hindustan Times, S K Gupta, director (Projects), MMRC, said, “The MMRC completed the entire tunnelling of 54.5 km – up and down line – on November 30, 2022. It required 17 tunnel boring machines (TBM) and 1,700 workmen to complete 100% tunnelling for the 33.5-km long corridor”.
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