The announcement of tenders worth Rs ,564 crore for the expansion of Metro Line 5 aims to significantly enhance connectivity across Thane, Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar, and Ambernath
Patil said Metro Line 5 was approved in 2016 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid its foundation stone in 2018. “We had demanded that Metro Line 5 be extended to Khadakpada.
I am happy that Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and MP Dr Shrikant Shinde have fulfilled this demand and tenders have now been issued,” Patil said. UMC House Leader Arun Aashan said the tender announcement had brought festive cheer to residents even before Diwali. The city is already in a festive mood,” Aashan said. Shrikant Shinde further said that with the tender now issued, the contract would be awarded within two months, after which construction work would begin on the ground.
In Kalyan, KDMC mayor Harshali Chaudhari-Thavil and Shiv Sena city president Ravi Patil welcomed the announcement, crediting the sustained efforts of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Kalyan MP Dr Shrikant Shinde for pushing the project forward. “The chief minister, deputy chief ministers and our MP Dr Shrikant Shinde have given Ulhasnagar residents this good news ahead of Diwali. At a press conference in Ulhasnagar, MP Shrikant Shinde addressed party functionaries and the media through a video call, announcing that Metro 5A would enter Ulhasnagar via Kalyan as a double-decker structure, with an elevated flyover above the road and the metro line above it.
With work on the first phase progressing and its trial run commencing on Tuesday, she said the decision to extend the network towards Khadakpada in Kalyan was particularly significant.