The Chandigarh Metro project remains off track even 13 years after it was first conceived, despite multiple feasibility studies, revised proposals, committees of three governments, and repeated official endorsements that the Tricity urgently needs a Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) to combat spiralling congestion. The project, scrapped once in 2017 and revived again in 2022, continues to inch through paperwork with no construction in sight.

Raising the matter in the Lok Sabha today, Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari demanded that the Centre should immediately declare Chandigarh Metro a strategic connectivity project and sanction a special grant of Rs 25,000 crore so that the long-delayed system can finally move to execution. He pointed out that the cost of the project has already escalated fr

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