Coimbatore Metro Rail: Wait continues for the green signal
The proposed Coimbatore Metro Rail project remains in limbo 16 years after its initial conception due to repeated rejections of project reports by the Union government. Despite various proposals and funding announcements by state authorities, the city's mass transit aspirations face ongoing bureaucratic delays.
Why it matters
This highlights the challenges of infrastructure development in India's tier-two cities and the friction between state-level planning and central government approval processes.
The story so far: Coimbatore Metro Rail, a mass rapid transit system, was mooted for Coimbatore 16 years ago, in 2010, when the Central government decided to introduce it in tier-two cities. However, a detailed project report submitted by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) to the Union government twice in the last two years was rejected. This has put the second largest city of Tamil Nadu’s aspirations for a mass public transport service on an ambiguous trajectory.
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