Devendra Fadnavis

guardian minister

Nitin Kareer

Arun Firodia

Vijay Kelkar

Delhi Metro Railway Corporation

Pune Municipal Corporation

PMC

Congress

Sharad Pawar

deputy chief minister

Supriya Sule

Anil Shirole

The long-awaited Pune Metro is finally showing signs of becoming a reality, albeit in stages. On Saturday, Chief Ministercalled a meeting of all party leaders to discuss the project.Fadnavis announced that while work on Corridor–1 of the metro (Swargate-Nigdi) will start soon, the route for Corridor-2 (Ramwadi-Vanaz), will need to be re-aligned, for which a committee will be appointed. Fadnavis, however, did not take any decision regarding the floor space index (FSI) on the corridors.“We heard from all the parties and arrived at two decisions. First, we have cleared Corridor-1 and have decided to ask the central government for permission to start work on it. For re-alignment of Corridor-2, we have decided to form a committee under the chairmanship of Pune districtGirish Bapat which will submit a report within a month,” Fadnavis said.He added, “The committee includes the municipal commissioner, urban development principal secretary, industrialist, economistand an official from the(DMRC).”) officials made presentations to party leader, including NationalistParty chief, formerAjit Pawar, members of parliament Vandana Chavan,, Shivajirao Adhalrao-Patil,and MLAs from all parties.Firodia said, “The existing alignment for Corridor-2 is not through a congested route. So, we requested the government to re-align the route where ridership will be higher.”PMC had proposed four FSI on a 500-metre area on both sides of the corridors. However, most of the political parties and NGOs objected to this. Fadnavis, took, skirted the issue at the meeting.However, the decision to form a committee could be a setback. In its detailed project report (DMR) to the central government, PMC has mentioned both corridors 1 and 2. Now, if the government decides to re-align Corridor-2, a revised DMR of will have to be drawn up, which will delay the project yet again.The revised estimated cost of the project is now pegged at Rs 10,183 crore, up by nearly Rs 2,199 crore as compared to the estimated cost in 2009.