Chennai Metro-MRTS Merger: PMO directs Railway Board to speed up the project

The Prime Minister’s Office has directed the Railway Board to speed up the Chennai Metro-MRTS merger project.

This comes a few weeks after Chief Minister M.K. Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the NITI Aayog meeting and gave a memorandum. Among the key priorities mentioned in it included ‘Transfer of Chennai’s MRTS to Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL).

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“We understand that following that meeting, PMO has directed the Railway Board to accelerate work on this project. Subsequently, the Railway Board had asked three queries to the Southern Railways. We hope that the board gives an approval soon,” a source in Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA) said.

A senior official of Railways said, they have responded to all the queries raised by the board so far.