MUMBAI: The change of guard in the state government and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) decision to release a portion of pending dues have given as fillip to railway infrastructure projects under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) as the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has opened the financial bids for the improvement of 18 suburban stations. Responses have already been received for eight stations.
Of the 18 stations for which bids were invited, seven each are on Western Railway and Central Railway Main line and four on Harbour line. "We opened the financial bids on Thursday. We will finalise the contractors in a few weeks. Work can begin after monsoon," MRVC chairman and managing director S C Gupta said.
