VOLUME 5

May 2017

CHAIRMAN Inauguration of Underground () Rail Services from Thirumangalam to Nehru Park on Thiru Rajiv Gauba, I.A.S., SECRETARY 14.05.2017 MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT GOVT. OF INDIA

Thiru. Pankaj Kumar Bansal, I.A.S., MANAGING DIRECTOR METRO RAIL LIMITED

The Hon'ble Chief Minister of and Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development inaugurated the passenger services on the first Underground Section in Green Line from to Nehru Park (7.4 KMs) of Rail Project- Phase-I on 14-5-2017.

The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the Hon'ble Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting inaugurated the Underground Metro stretch from Koyambedu to Nehru Park on 14.05.2017.

This inauguration marks the first underground stretch in the Green Line of the Phase I of CMRL Project to be opened for passenger services.

A total of 7.4 kms of underground stretch from Koyambedu to Nehru Park has been inaugurated. The entire elevated stretch of Phase 1 The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development flagged off the first train from Thirumangalam Metro from Koyambedu to St. Thomas Mount, Little Mount to Airport is Station on 14.05.2017 and declared open the Metro Stations from Thirumangalam to Nehru Park for Passenger Services. already in operation.

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Rolling Stock Work Progress as on 31.01.2017

Thirumangalam Metro Station Tower Metro Station Anna Nagar East Metro Station

Pachaiyappa’s College Metro Station

Shenoy Nagar Metro Station Metro Station Nehru Park Metro Station

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Thiru M.C Sampath Hon’ble Minister for Industries, visited Thirumangalam and Nehru Park Metro Rail Stations on 09.05.17

Thiru M.C Sampath, Hon’ble Minister for Industries, visited the Underground Green Line Metro between Thirumangalam and Nehru Park Metro Rail Stations on 09.05.17.

The Hon’ble Minister inspected the works in progress at the metro stations and safety measures taken at the stations and facilities present in the metro stations.

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Metro Rail utilizes;

1. Lowest carbon emission amongst various modes of mass transport.

2. Causes no air pollution in the city. Provides for very high passenger capacity.

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Rolling Stock Work Progress as on 31.01.2017

CMRL Activities

Chennai Metro Rail App Awards and Rewards

Name S.No Designation Awarded towards This app provides the customers of metro service (Thiru / Tmt / Selvi)

with plenty of useful information. 1 Subathradevi N Tickets sold by the Station Controller ticketing operators are 2 Anbalagan P Chennai Metro Rail app provides the customers of quite good - & 3 Madhanmohan S K JE (S/SC/TO) Metro Stations metro services with plenty of useful information 4 Sridhar K Cashless transaction (46%) Station Controller that helps in using the metro services. 5 Harihara Sudan J on 20-03-2017 Recognition for successfully awarding contract of Advertisement, contract of Base 6 Praveen Kumar. B Manager (BD) Following are the different sections in the app and transceiver stations (BTS) and KIOSKS package I, II & the information available in them. III in all 32 metro stations of Phase-I 7 Loganathan R Station Controller 8 Janet Shobia Y Route between stations – selecting the starting 9 Priya M JE (Electronics) 10 Arul Singh K Station Controller and destination stations will display the user the 11 Sowndrarajan.L 12 Bangarusamy T fares, distance, approximate travel time, stations 13 Ganesh R JE (Electrical) 14 Sri Siva Sakthi M 15 Menaha M in between with changeover station and the route Station Controller 16 Priya E map with plotting of the route on the map. 17 Adaikala Doss Extra efforts during Stage 2A CMRS Inspection 18 Sujatha.S 19 Madhanmohan S K 20 Vishnu P Station Info- selecting a station will give you various useful information about the 21 Udayamoorthy S JE (S/SC/TO) 22 Gautam B station like First and last train timings, Platforms, Gates and Directions, contact 23 James Arputharaj V 24 Jaya Prakash R numbers, tourist spots near that station, parking, feeder services etc. 25 Pravin Kumar P 26 Abinaya JE (Electrical) 27 Latha Priya 28 Preethy A Train Operator Nearest metro station – This section will show you the nearest metro station from 29 Senthil kumar D Depot Controller your current location. 30 Faizul Ahamed S Traffic Controller 31 Senthil Kumar T 32 Syed Ibrahim A Preparing the Statutory Other useful information to the user namely Metro Stations, Routes, Fares, nearby 33 Naganandhini C Traffic Controller documents required for 34 Muthukumar U CMRS inspection metro locations, train timings, feeder services, Parking, travel card recharge, Tourist 35 Nadanaganesh R Depot Controller spots, Weather Forecast etc are also available in the Mobile App. 36 Sakthiveeravel M 37 Govindasamy T Traffic Controller 38 Rajesh J Depot Controller 39 Cynthia Roshan Samson Traffic Controller

¯ Tmt Jaya Gowri. M.V IPS Chief Security Officer ¯ Thiru Ilampooranam. A GM (EC) Welcome ¯ Tmt Dhanam. D AM (Legal) to ¯ Thiru Kaleswaran. K Dy. Collector (LA) ¯ Thiru Abdul Hameed. N Site Engineer (Civil) CMRL Family ¯ Thiru Poninien. M Site Engineer (Civil) ¯ Thiru Arun Kumar. S.S Site Engineer (Civil) ¯ Thiru Athithya Shankar Site Engineer (Civil) ¯ Thiru Ramesh Chandra Kumawat Consultant (Railway Coordination)

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Underground Sections & Tunneling Work Progress as on 31.05.2017

Tunnelling Completed Percentage Package TBM From To length in in mtr completed UAA 01 TBM 1 Washermenpet Metro Metro 4445 4445 100 TBM 2 Washermenpet Metro Egmore Metro 4445 4445 100 TBM 3 May Day Park Central Metro 2080 2080 100 UAA 02 TBM 1 May Day Park AG-DMS 3616 2784 77.0 TBM 2 May Day Park AG-DMS 3616 2502 69.19 UAA 03 Metro AG-DMS 5736 5736 100 UAA 04 Egmore Metro 6776 6776 100 UAA 05 Shenoy Nagar Thirumangalam 5594 5594 100 UAA 08 TBM 1 Washermenpet 2000 347 17.35 TBM 2 Korrukupet 2000 458 22.9 Total 40308 35167 87.25

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AG-DMS Station High Court Station Washermanpet Station

Blue Line In the underground section between Saidapet ramp to Washermenpet, out of 28466m, track slab has been completed for the length of 5501m in between Saidapet to AG-DMS and Washermanpet to Mayday park track preliminary works in progress. Track Work Progress Track work has been completed between Saidapet ramp to AG-DMS in as on Downline. 31.05.17 Green Line In the underground section between Thirumangalam ramp and Chennai central, out of 19888m, Track work has been completed for the length of 16443m with 10 turnouts. DEPOT Track work has been completed for entire depot length of 14606m with 41 turnouts.

Moving People, Sustaining Growth 06 4 Know Your Metro Station Rolling Stock Work Progress as on 31.01.2017 Nehru Park Metro Station is the 3rd metro station in the underground stretch on the Green Line of Phase I of Chennai Metro Rail Project.

This station is among the newly inaugurated underground metro station in the Green Line from Chennai Central to St Thomas Mount. This station services the neighborhoods of Egmore and Purasaiwakkam.

The station is located on Periyar EVR High Road also known as High Road which is one of the main arterial roads on Chennai connecting bypass junction on the west end and Muthuswamy Bridge near at Part Town in the East end.

The Nehru Park Metro Station is located below the Nehru Park and has brought a new dimension to the area in the form of a Public Transit leading to major changes in the urban environment in and around the neighborhoods of Egmore and Purasaiwakkam as well.

The station is situated next to several important places namely Sangam Multiplex, Kilpauk G3 Police Station, Nehru Park and Gengu Reddy Road and Sports Development Authority. Indian Squash Academy and Residential complexes to name a few.

Editor Sub-Editor Please address all correspondence to: Tmt. Tamil Mozhi Amuthu, PRO Selvi. Shruti Shambavi. R, AM (PR) The Editor, Chennai Metro Rail Limited, Published by : "Administration Building", CMRL Depot, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai Metro Rail Limited Koyambedu, Chennai - 600 107.