Metro

Maha-Metro

Supreme Court

SC

Pune Municipal Corporation

PMC

NGT

Brijesh Dixit

Environmental Interest Litigation

EIL

PMB

The government has given approval to appoint five state government representatives to the MaharashtraRailway Corporation (), which is to look over the Metro work in the city. As the development works are being fast-tracked, the) has now declared January 20 to hear the) plea against the National Green Tribunal’s () interim stay order.According to state government’s instructions, there will be 11members on the board of directors of the Maha- Metro, including managing director. The other five members will comprise PMC commissioner, Nagpur commissioner, principal secretary of urban development department of state, additional chief secretary of the finance department and managing director of Maha-Metro. The remaining ones will be appointed by the Centre. On May 26, 2016 the bench had passed the directive acting on an) filed in the NGT , by a group of prominent personalities alleging that the Metro route could threaten riverbed ecosystem.