Lok Sabha

• Whether Railway Authority have finalised the completion schedule of Kurla-Thane (Mumbai) additional lines project.
  
  
• Whether the resettlement programme of hutments near Vikhroli and Bhandup has been finalised;
  
  
• If so, the reasons for delay of above project.
  
  
• The budgetary provision made for this project during 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 and the amount released so far ; and
  
  
• The present status of the project ?

• Yes Sir The project it likely to be completed by March 2002.
  
  
• The project is a part of Mumbai Urban Transport Project-II (Mutp-II) Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R & R) of hutments of MUTP projects is being handled by Project Monitoring Unit set up in Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. They have tentatively finalised the R & R programme of shifting the hutment dwellers in transit accommodation by December, 2000 and in permanent tenements by December 2002.
  
  
• The time taken in resettlement of hutment dwellers has delayed the completion of the project.
  
• During the year 1999-2000, Rs. 40 crores was provided and out of that Rs. 27.90 crores was utilised. In the current year i.e. 2000-2001, a provision of Rs. 24 crores has been made.
  
  
• The project has been sanctioned in two phases :-
  
  
  i) Kurla-Bhandup (10 kms) phase-I Physical progress of the project at the end of March, 2000 was 50% and financial progress was 48.87%.
  
  
  ii) Bhandup-Thane (7 kms) phase-II Physical progress of the project at the end of March, 2000 was 22% and financial progress was 20.51%
  
  
  Progress of work has been affected due to time taken in acquisition of land and removal of encroachments.