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Written By kbsyed61 - 11 December, 2012

Bangalore CRS Bengaluru GOK DULT Commuter rail IDD Namma Railu Commuter rail Meeting Minutes

Dear Prajagale,

I would like to share the minutes of the meeting held under the chairmanship of Dr. Amita Prasad, IAS, Principal Secretary, UDD to examine the RITES report on "Implementation of Commuter Rail Service in Banaglore.

Thanks to Dr. Rajkumar Khatri, IAS, for sharing this meeting minutes with me in response to my email request.

Highlights of the Meeting:

  • DULT to move a proposal for acquisition of Binny Mill Land for CRS Purpose.
  • For Phase 1A, Procuerment of 5 MEMU rakes, 4 Pitlines at Byappanhalli, 2 Pitlines at Yeswantpur.
  • RITES to submit another report with:
    • Examine provision of Maintenance lines in Phase 1 A.
    • Platform requirements to support 16 coaches
    • To recommend institutional arrangements and financing mechanism for implementing the project
  • DULT to proceed further after the submission of new report from RITES.

CRS Meeting Minutes Nov 17th

COMMENTS

DPR or Feasibility Report?

kbsyed61 - 12 December, 2012 - 14:43

From the minutes it is not clear whether RITES is asked to submit a 'Feasibility Report, given the understanding of BMRCL chief that the 2012 report is 'Pr-Feasability' report. Also it is not very clear about direction to do a DPR.

 

When will these decisions go for Cabinet Approval & IR

Sanjeev - 12 December, 2012 - 04:25

Thanks Syed for getting this info.

Segments  proposed are Bangalore - Bangarpet, Bangalore - Mandya,  Tumkur &  later Hosure in Ph 1a.
Other segments  will be their in Ph1, Ph2

To Start this services,  basically 5 MEMU rakes of 8 coaches to 16 coaches,  1 pit line at Baiyyapanahalli,  2 additional pit lines at Yesvantpur.

Initial investment for upgradation of Singalling & reducing block size & other station  improvments to-gether proposal will be in the range of 400 Crore. 

This time GOK & Railways should take up this seriously.  Its surprising that Complet Team of BMRC was present in this meeting where as they never attended any meeting CRS earlier.

 

 

BLR-Doddaballapur, BLR-Bangarpet not in consideration?

kbsyed61 - 11 December, 2012 - 16:05

Surprised that DULT/IDD/UDD has not conisdered the BLR-Doddaballpur and BLR-Bangarpet corridors in consideration of CRS proposals.

Institutional arrangements & Financing Mechanisms!

kbsyed61 - 12 December, 2012 - 15:04

I didn't quite understood the last but one bullet point on page# 4,

"...To recommend institutional arrangements and financing mechanism for implementing the project.."

Both points are there in the 2012 RITES report.

On institutional arrangements, If you read RITES Final Report, Sec 10.5, Recommendations and Suggestions, there is a road map for rolling out CRS:

  1. Formation of BCRC (Bangalore Commuter Rail Corporation)
  2. Scope out its mandate - CRS Implementation:
  • Identifying and freezing the list of projects that should form initial mandate of BCRC.
  • Doing techno-economic survey of these projects.This stage involves preliminary field survey and making preliminary technical specifications of the project and making preliminary estimate.
  • Drafting the constitution and structure of SPV, its scope, role of different constituents of SPV, equity share holding etc.
  • Making out a formal proposal to GOI.e. Holding series of meetings with GOI until the SPV becomes reality.

Also Section 10.6, lays out a high level but substantive details about financial arrangements that GOK can consider for funding CRS cost needs.

I am not sure what is that DULT/IDD/UDD is looking for?

 

I like the intention that BDA

idontspam - 12 December, 2012 - 05:17

I like the intention that BDA should be involved in the Yeswantpur Hosur line for TOD as it passes right thru the Eastern ORR IT corridor, however I doubt the capability of the current crop of people on all sides of the babudom to be able to do anything about it. Let us see how much BDA is interested in doing anything other than layout formation. 

 

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