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Second metro corridor in Ghaziabad to take more time

December 29, 2015 12:00 am | Updated March 24, 2016 12:38 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

20 per cent of the physical work has been completed so far: DMRC

Residents of Ghaziabad will have to wait for more than a year for the second metro corridor in the city as the extension of Rithala-Dilshad Garden (Red Line) to the New Bus Adda is likely to be commissioned in October 2017. With 20 per cent of the physical work completed so far, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday night erected the first girder on the section.

The girder which has been installed is the first of the 704 others which will be installed on the Dilshad Garden – New Bus Adda (Ghaziabad) stretch. “The first girder was successfully done on the Dilshad Garden – New Bus Adda metro section on the intervening night of December 27 and 28 for the launching operation before the upcoming Shahid Nagar station. The entire process of installation of this girder was carried out during night hours to avoid traffic disruption/inconvenience to the travelling public on the busy G T Karnal road,” said a DMRC official.

Girders are horizontal segments (having normal length 28 m) on which the metro tracks are laid on elevated sections. These are precast at the casting yard and then transported at site for erection. For erecting a girder the number of preceding activities like survey, geotechnical investigation, detailed design ,setting up of casting yard (for producing concrete and casting of girders & pier caps), pile foundations , pile cap, pier, erection of pier caps, stitching of pier cap, pedestal & bearing fixing need to be completed.

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The Dilshad Garden – New Bus Adda (Ghaziabad) metro extension is a 9.60 kilometre long elevated section comprising of eight stations. The line is being constructed on the busy GT Road that connects Ghaziabad with the Capital and it will be Delhi Metro’s second extension inside Ghaziabad; the first one being the Yamuna Bank – Vaishali section.

“About 80 per cent of these girders will be erected during night time to avoid disruption of traffic on the busy GT Road, in a well planned manner,” the official added.

sThe civil work for the section has been awarded to a Joint Venture comprising of M/s Tata Project Limited and M/s GYT.

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Dilshad Garden – New Bus Adda stretch is likely to be commissioned

in 2017

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