With Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) issuing mandatory safety certificate for JBS-MGBS route, efforts have been intensified to launch commercial operations on the route at the earliest. This culminates the entire Metro phase I project in the city.
The safety certificate issued by CMRS cleared the way for commencing passenger services on the last corridor of Hyderabad Metro Rail project Phase1.
The corridor covers 11 km and has nine stations, including JBS-Parade Grounds, Secunderabad West, Gandhi Hospital, Musheerabad, RTC Crossoads, Chikkadapally, Narayanguda, Sultan Bazar and MGBS.
After receiving the certificate from CMRS J K Garg, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited Managing Director NVS Reddy said the government would decide the date of commencing operations on the route soon. Garg along with Reddy and senior engineers and technical experts of L&TMRHL inspected the JBS-MGBS Metro Corridor II in the last three days. Satisfied with the functioning of the system and equipment in place, the mandatory safety certificate was issued, Metro officials said.
The safety certification of the 25 kV overhead electrical traction and other electrical installations by CEIG (Chief Electrical Inspector General), fire clearance of the nine stations of the corridor by DG, Fire Services, signalling and train control systems by Thales, Canada, Internal Safety Assessment by Halcrow, UK, the results of the tests of various technical parameters during trial runs etc, were examined by the CMRS.
L&TMRHL CEO and Managing Director K V B Reddy, Chief Operating Officer A K Saini and other senior officials participated in the inspection and deliberations.
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