Metro carshed at Aarey to be operational by end of 2023: Fadnavis

Sharing more information on the carshed work, Fadnavis, during his final address on behalf of the the Maharashtra government, said that once the Aarey carshed is operational, the Bandra-Colaba-Seepz Metro line will become partly functional by the end of 2023 or early 2024. He added that around 80 per cent of the work on this metro line is over, with the completion of 85 per cent of tunneling work, 74 per cent of track work and 97 per cent of construction work of the metro stations on this line.

After coming to power at the end of 2019, the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had banned construction work for the Arey carshed. However, the BJP-Shiv Sena government that came to power in July last year, lifted the construction ban and resumed work.

Fadnavis told the council on Friday, “I am happy to announce that after almost three years when work on the carshed was halted for reasons I do not want to revisit, almost 54 percent work on the cashed has been completed in the past six months. The work will be completed by the end of the year. The first phase of the Bandra-Colaba-Seepz metro, between Bandra and Seepz, can begin by end of this year or early next year.”

He also said that around 45 percent of the work on the nine metro lines across Mumbai has been completed so far.