{"id":203604,"date":"2022-09-05T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203604"},"modified":"2022-09-05T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:08:32","slug":"parliamentary-panel-flags-low-ridership-need-for-unified-metro-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliamentary-panel-flags-low-ridership-need-for-unified-metro-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary panel flags low ridership, need for unified Metro law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cParliamentary panel flags low ridership, need for unified Metro law\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 5th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs has submitted a report titled \u201cimplementation of Metro rail projects\u201d to the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key highlights from the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Low ridership: <\/b>Most metro projects (except Delhi and Mumbai line 1) have seen lower actual average daily ridership than what is required to breakeven. These metro projects include Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Lucknow, and Jaipur.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The poor performance of metro projects indicates several things such as: (i)<\/strong> lack of first and last mile connectivity, (ii)<\/strong> faulty detailed project reports, and (iii)<\/strong> absence of parking at stations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Therefore, the Committee recommended: (i)<\/strong> ensuring ridership estimation (which determines the selection of the type of metro) is realistic and accurate, and (ii)<\/strong> taking concrete steps to increase the ridership of all metro projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Law governing metro projects: <\/b>The Committee observed that as more cities are taking up metro projects, there is a need to have a comprehensive law for metro projects. Currently, metro projects are governed by three central Acts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Note: <\/b>The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs had stated that it is drafting a Bill to replace the three existing Acts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority(UMTA)<\/b>: State governments are required to constitute UMTAs for managing urban transport. The Committee observed that several states such as Karnataka, Gujarat, and Rajasthan have not constituted UMTAs. It recommended the Ministry to encourage the setting up of UMTAs in states.<\/span><\/p>\n

Payment of fare via single card: <\/b>The National Common Mobility Card (NCMC)<\/a><\/strong>, launched in March 2019, allows payment across different modes of public transport throughout India.\u00a0 Payment through a single card attracts customers towards public transport and increases ridership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Committee noted that NCMC-compliant systems have not been installed in Kolkata, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chennai, and Gujarat. It recommended the Ministry to take suitable steps to operationalise NCMC<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Sourcing of power from renewables<\/b>: Metro networks such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, and Lucknow are adopting energy conservation measures. For instance, Kochi and Pune metro have planned to meet 60% of their energy requirements from solar power.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Committee recommended the Ministry to encourage mandatory sourcing of power from renewables, especially solar, by metro networks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cParliamentary panel flags low ridership, need for unified Metro law\u201d published in The Hindu on 5th September 2022. What is the News? Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs has submitted a report titled \u201cimplementation of Metro rail projects\u201d to the Lok Sabha. What are the… Continue reading Parliamentary panel flags low ridership, need for unified Metro law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-203604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704617466},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}