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interaction COVER STORY Powered by Secant Piling Science Museum Station Metro 3 corridor will benefit 30 lakh population along the corridor and will carry 17 lakh passengers per day Mumbai Metro Line - 3 (MML - 3) is one of the key projects to improve the transportation scenario in Mumbai the financial capital of India. MML-3 project - a 33.5Km. long corridor running along Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ, envisages to decongest the traffic situation in Greater Mumbai. It aims to provide a Mass Rapid Transit System that would supplement the inadequate suburban railway system of Mumbai by bringing metro closer to the doorsteps of the people. With full-scale operations of MML-3, the city would witness significant reduction in traffic volumes and the local transit facility would get a boost. Mumbai Metro Line 3 project is to proudly herald in a new era by making the travel in Mumbai a comfortable, reliable and pleasurable experience. ASHWINI BHIDE, MD, MUMBAI METRO RAIL CORPORATION spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on the current status of the project, its impact and opportunities. Please brief us on the current status of the work, Environment Baseline Surveys and this project. Tendering process for all metro rail project? temporary earth retaining at all the Tunnel system packages including Traction/Power Te construction work of Mumbai’s frst Boring Machine (TBM) launching shafs supply, Tunnel Ventilation System, Lif & underground Metro Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ location are in progress in all the packages. Escalators, Rolling Stock, Signaling and Metro-3 has been divided in to seven civil More than 400 secant pilings have been Train Control, Platform Screen Doors, packages. Contracts for civil work of all completed in all seven civil packages. Telecom System, the Automatic Fare packages have been awarded in July 2016. 125 major equipment’s/ plants have been Collection (AFC) System is in progress Geo-Technical Investigations, Barricading, deployed at construction sites. Around and will be concluded by the end of this Building Condition Survey, Trial Trenching 1700 manpower have been deployed for fnancial year. 26 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017