Pune Metro's coach assembling unit is waiting to get land allotted near Nagpur in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (MahaMetro) had sought land from both the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) and Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) but yet to get any response.
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The international bids for the supply of 102 coaches for Pune Metro have been awarded to Titagarh Firema, an Indian company in a joint venture (JV) with an Italian firm.
The JV is supposed to deliver 102 ultra-modern state-of-the-art aluminium-bodied coaches. As per the agreement, 25% of the coaches are to be manufactured at their plant in Italy and the balance 75% will be produced and commissioned at the MahaMetro coach manufacturing plant near Nagpur. The plant in Italy is also not operating for now due to the COVID-19 disaster.
If everything goes according to plan, then, it will be for the first time that aluminium-bodied coaches will be manufactured in India. The delivery of Pune Metro coaches is expected to start from January 2021.
The delay in land acquisition for the project reflects that it will be difficult to get ready as on its scheduled time. MahaMetro had submitted a proposal for acquiring 50-acre land for the plant in September 2018.
As there has been no response from JNPT, MahaMetro officials then sought land from MIDC in Butibori but it is also yet to get any green signal for that land too.
The detailed project report (DPR) of the plant is ready and according to it, the Phase-I of the plant will cost INR.100 crore for the construction of the boundary wall and sheds and for buying cranes. The coach supplier will bring the remaining equipment to the plant site.
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