The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) plans to connect its
proposed Navi Mumbai Metro rail corridor to Mumbai's Metro line at Mankhurd.
The MMRDA is developing Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd line which will later be
extended up to SantaCruz airport from Bandra. Besides the ongoing suburban rail
project between Seawoods and Nhava, CIDCO will develop a Metro line up to Uran
from Seawoods. This will help MMRDA as well as the CIDCO take both the Metro
rail and suburban corridors up to Sewree from Nhava.
CIDCO plans to build the Navi Mumbai Metro rail corridor at a cost of Rs
8,000 crore, for which Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will prepare the
feasibility.
According to sources, CIDCO's board of directors have decided to develop a 57
km long Metro corridor with three lines at an estimated cost of Rs 140 crore per
km. The first Metro will be a 24 km elevated stretch starting from Belapur. The
second 19 km corridor will stretch from Seawoods to Panvel via Kharkopar,
Ranjanpada and Uran. The third 14 km Metro line will start from the proposed
Navi Mumbai airport in Panvel and go up to Mankhurd via Ulve, Nerul and Vashi.
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