Madurai Metro, is a proposed rapid transit system for Madurai, Tamil Nadu. It arose from a Madurai Metrolite system, part of a major expansion of public transport in the city and one of the projects devised by the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J.Jayalalithaa.
As of March 2023[update], the DPR preparation contract was awarded to Aarvee Associates.[1] It was ready by July 2023, with construction work planned to commence by end of 2024.[2]
As the monorail market is estimated to be ₹72,000 crore (US$10 billion) in India, the then Governor of Tamil Nadu, Banwarilal Purohit announced in Legislative assembly that the Government of Tamil Nadu had decided to do a feasibility study for introducing monorail system in Madurai[3][4][5][6] along with Salem, Thiruchirappalli,[7][8][9] and Tirunelveli.
In 2020, the government has earmarked a sum of about ₹60,000 crore (US$8.4 billion) for metro and monorail projects in Tamil Nadu.[10] At that time SASTRA, using Geographical Information System (GIS) tools, had worked out a proposal for a suburban railway route for Madurai City.
Madurai proposed routes for monorail were:
Transfer Points were: Avaniyapuram, Goripalayam, Madurai Railway station, Periyar Bus stand, Keelavasal, Anna Nagar, Teppakulam, Mattuthavani, Tiruparankundrum[11][12]
The Government of Tamilnadu proposed for a Metro Rail in Madurai, the third largest city in the state of Tamilnadu.[13][14] CMRL releases tender notice for preparing the project's feasibility report in March, 2022 and BARSYL bags the tender to prepare feasibility study with the deadline of May, 2022[15][16]
Proposed Metro Rail Routes in Madurai at Phase-1 stage[21]
Proposed Metro Rail Routes in Madurai at Phase-II stage[22][23]
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