Mumbai: Mega block on Monorail line for maintenance work, check details

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority MMRDA while sharing Mumbai Monorail updates said that there would be a mega block on Monorail line to carry out maintenance workThe MMRDA said that the regular services of the monorail are rescheduled from 24th March to 25th March due to the planned maintenance directiveIn an official statement the MMRDA said that the regular maintenance works are scheduled and the planned duties of the Civil Division will be meticulously executed between 24th March 2024 and 25th March 2024 The scheduled activities include a variety of routine maintenance works that will be performed by the Civil DepartmentOwing to the maintenance works services from Wadala Depot Station WAD to Chembur Station CHR will be suspended on 24th March 2024 Sunday whereas services from Wadala Depot Station WAD to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk Station GMC will be operational with the headway of 18 minutes on 24th March 2024 the MMRDA saidThe statement from the MMRDA further said that the monorail service between Wadala Depot Station WAD and Chembur Station CHR will continue after 8 pm on Sunday till the final train with an interval of 1 hour As a result a total of 114 services will be made available on SundayIt said that the services from Wadala Depot Station WAD to Chembur Station CHR will be operational with the headway of 1 hour on 25th March 2024 Monday while services that extend between Wadala Depot Station WAD and Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk Station GWC will operate with the headway of 18 minutes on 25th March 2024 As a result a total of 147 services will be made available on Monday In this way the regular operations will be slowly restored as per the original schedule following the completion of the maintenance worksMeanwhile earlier this month MMRDA announced that they have floated a tender for the extension of Mumbai Metro Line 12 ThaneBhiwandiKalyan to Navi Mumbais Taloja areaConsidering the population growth development and employment growth in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority completed a comprehensive transport study in the year 2008 after fully studying the required transport network Also considering the growing population of KalyanDombivali and surrounding development the development plan of 27 villages the Kalyan Development Center and the area of NAINA and the urgency of connecting KalyanDombivali with Navi Mumbai the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority MRPDA ThaneBhiwandiKalyan metro line is proposed to be extended from Kalyan to Taloja via Dombivli The tender for the appointment of a construction contractor has been released and the process of appointment is in progress MMRDA statement read