{"id":199948,"date":"2022-09-08T00:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=199948"},"modified":"2022-09-08T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:46:55","slug":"cabinet-approves-kochi-metro-rail-projects-2nd-phase-to-cost-rs-1957-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/cabinet-approves-kochi-metro-rail-projects-2nd-phase-to-cost-rs-1957-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Kochi Metro Rail project&#8217;s 2nd phase, to cost Rs 1,957 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, 7 Sep (PTI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the second phase of the Kochi Metro Rail project, which will have 11 stations covering a length of over 11 km and cost Rs 1,957 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement after the cabinet meeting, the government said preparatory work for the second phase, including road widening of the Seaport Airport Road, are progressing well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first phase in Kochi from Aluva to Petta, covering a length of 25.6 Km with 22 stations at an estimated completion cost of Rs.5181.79 crore, is fully operational.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second phase from JLN Stadium to Infopark will pass through Kakkanad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kochi Metro Phase 1A project of viaduct of 1.80 km between Petta to SN Junction with an approved cost of Rs 710.93 crore is being implemented as a state sector project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kochi Metro Phase 1 B Project of 1.20 km from SN Junction to Thripunithura Terminal is also under construction as state sector project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kochi is Kerala&#8217;s most densely populated city and is part of an extended metropolitan region, which is the largest urban agglomeration in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kochi metropolitan area is estimated to have had population of about 20.8 Lakh in 2013, 25.8 lakh in 2021 and 33.12 lakh by 2031. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 7 Sep (PTI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the second phase of the Kochi Metro Rail project, which will have 11 stations covering a length of over 11 km and cost Rs 1,957 crore. In a statement after the cabinet meeting, the government said preparatory work for the second phase, including road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}