The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) to upload on its website, a map of the realigned route, finalised between Madhavaram Milk colony and Murari Hospital, after it the earlier plan to take a circuitous route to establish the Thapalpetti metro station was discarded. CMRL was ordered to upload the revised map within 24 hours. Justices Anita Sumanth and M. Nirmal Kumar also called for a compliance report in this regard by Thursday.
The interim orders were passed on a public interest litigation petition filed by local resident I. Lourdu Raj who insisted on the construction of the Thapalpetti metro station as per the original Detailed Project Report (DPR), since CMRL had already acquired the land required for this construction.
The petitioner’s counsel said, the distance between any two metro stations, that had already been constructed by CMRL in phase I of its project and even those under currently construction in phase II, was only between 700 to 900 metres, whereas the distance between Madhavaram Milk Colony and Murari Hospital alone had increased to 1.7 km due to the scrapping of the Thapalpetti station.
