Mumbai Metro Line-5: MMRDA Floats Tender For 132 Metro Cars

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has floated a tender for procuring 22 train sets of six cars each for line-5, which will run from Thane to Kalyan via Bhiwandi.

Additionally, the design-build and maintain tender, valued at Rs 2,640.72 crore, encompasses CBTC signaling and train control, telecommunication, platform screen doors, and depot machinery and plant.

The selected bidder will be responsible for design, manufacturing, supply, testing, commissioning of all the systems of line-5. Additionally, the manufacturer has to maintain the coaches for a period of 15 years.

There will be PSDs installed at all platforms, acting as barriers between the track and the edge of the platform. These barricades will stop people from entering or falling in the track area.

Stretching over 24.52 kilometres, the fully-elevated line-5 will connect Thane to Kalyan through 16 stations, with a maintenance depot at Kasheli, benefiting commuters in the central suburbs.

The initial phase of Metro line-5, spanning 12.2 km from Kapurbawadi in Thane to Dhamankar Naka, with seven stations, is nearing completion, boasting an impressive progress rate of 83 per cent. The project is slated for completion by December 2025.

In the second phase, the 12.32 km line will connect Dhamankar Naka in Bhiwandi to Kalyan APMC. However, the final alignment of phase-2 is yet to be finalised.

According to the tender timeline, the first prototype train for phase-1 must be delivered at 56 weeks (1.1 years), from the signing of the contract. Subsequently, the next two trains are due at week 78, with the remaining nine trains scheduled for delivery by week 96.