Sub: Metro Rail Service will be extended to more than 25 cities in our
country by the year 2025 announced by Sri Narendra Modi,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India – Tamilnadu Chief Minister and
Ministers / Parliament Members in Southern Tamilnadu urge the
Union govt to include Madurai as one of the above 25 cities to
implement the Metro Rail Project – Press statement.
MADURAI: Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi has announced that the Metro Rail Service will be extended to more than 25 cities in India by the year 2025, while addressing at the inauguration of driverless train on Delhi Metros Magneta line on 28th December 2020.
In a press statement issued on 2nd January 2021, the TN Chamber president has said that Madurai, with a population of more than 25 lakhs, is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu and the city which is mostly affected by the traffic crisis after Chennai. “None of the measures taken so far to curb the traffic crisis in Madurai have been effective. The main reasons for this are increasing number of vehicle traffic day by day and the lack of adequate width of roads and the lack of necessary flyovers. The introduction of the Metro Rail project in Madurai will greatly help to overcome the traffic problem. With the announcement of the Metro Rail project in Coimbatore after Chennai, the non-announcement of the implementation of the project to Madurai is a great disappointment to the people in Southern Districts of Tamil Nadu,” the TN Chamber press statement has said yesterday.
The press release further stated that “It is noteworthy that Parliament has already approved an amendment to the law that would expand the “Metro Rail” project if state governments accept 50 percent of the
total cost and recommend the project for any city with a population of more than 10 lakhs.
WHY MADURAI WANTS METRO?
“On behalf of Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we request the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ministers and Members of Parliament in southern districts to urge the Central Government to take appropriate action to introduce the Metro Rail project in Madurai and to get Madurai moving on the Metro Rail service to be expanded to 25 cities.
If the Madurai Metro Rail service is set up on two routes from Melur via Agriculture College-High Court Bench – Pandi Kovil Junction – Velammal Hospital – Madurai Airport – AIIMS Hospital -Thirumangalam and from Thirupuvanam to Silaiman – Pandi Kovil Junction – Velammal Hospital – Airport – AIIMS – proposed new Busport at Karadikal-Madurai Kamaraj University-IT Park-Checkanurani people from Madurai as well as from southern districts will be able to reach Madurai easily from
these areas for various reasons. “There will be a permanent solution to the traffic congestion in Madurai,” said Mr.N.Jegatheesan, president, TN Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in his appeal from Madurai to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr.EPS on January 2nd 2021.
