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Ramkrishan Upadhyay
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 15
A majority of the members of the Administrator’s Advisory Council, including Pawan Kumar Bansal, former Union Minister, and Satya Pal Jain, former Member of Parliament, have supported the Metro project in the city, while MP Kirron Kher has favoured monorail in the city.
The Administration brought the issue before the members to seek their views on various options of mode of transport in the city in its meeting today.
The members were told to express their views on options like Metro, monorail, BRT and electric buses for the city. Though the Administration has earlier shelved the Metro project for Chandigarh in July last year and decided to go for other options like strengthening public transport service, the Metro again got support from the members. Bansal said: “We cannot see the city in isolation”.
The Metro is the need of the future and best suited for the character of the city as it will be underground in the city and can be above the ground outside the city, while monorail will destroy the skyline.
Former MP Satya Pal Jain also strongly supported the project. He said: “The future generation will not spare us if we don’t go for the Metro”.
MP Kirron Kher had also opposed the Metro project. She said monorail is a good idea for Chandigarh. Punjab and Haryana can use Metro up to Chandigarh and then transfer onto monorail as it would save Chandigarh from being dug up.
I am in a fix: Tandon
While Jain and Kher expressed divergent views on the Metro, Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon said he was in a fix as the present MP and the former MP of his party differed on the issue of the Metro. Upon this, Jain replied and said they could have different views on the issues, but there was not any question of difference at any sort.
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