Poonamallee-Porur Metro stretch to become functional by the end of this year: CM Stalin
The Chennai Metro Rail II service between Poonamallee and Porur will be inaugurated by this year-end, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Thursday.
Also, he reiterated his request to the Central government to give the nod for the metro rail projects for Coimbatore and Madurai cities.
The chief minister inspected the tunnel boring machine emerging from the Adyar Junction Metro Station area that covers a total distance of 1.218 km, including the challenging route under the Adyar River for 300 meters.
“The Chennai Metro Rail works, which were started when ‘Kalaignar’ M Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister and I was then Deputy Chief Minister, are progressing rapidly under our current Dravidian model government,” Stalin said.
“After delays during the previous regime, we continued the second phase of work, primarily with the state funds,” Stalin said in a post on the social media platform ‘X’.
Accepting the state government’s request, the Centre approved this project, he said.
“The metro rail service between Poonamallee-Porur will be inaugurated by the end of 2025. I have instructed the @cmrlofficial administration to complete the remaining works within the stipulated time. When these works are fully completed, Chennai will set new standards in urban public transport connectivity in India!,” he said in the post.
During his inspection of the ongoing works today, he was very happy to see that the project started by his government was progressing. “At this time, I once again request the Union Government to give approval for the metro rail projects for Coimbatore and Madurai cities, as well,” the CM said.
The Metro Rail project was approved in 2007 and the work commenced in June 2009. Passenger services were fully operational on two lines of the 54.1 km long Chennai Metro Rail Project Phase-I. An average of more than 3.1 lakh people travel per day under this project, an official release here said.