MMRDA tables Rs 6,976-cr budget; Rs 3200 crore for metro lines

The city's planning and development authority MMRDA today approved a Rs 6,976.50-crore budget for fiscal 2018, out of which the seven proposed metro projects will get Rs 3,210 crore and Rs 1,200 crore for MTHL.
Water resources will get Rs 300 crore while monorail phase-II has been allotted Rs 208 crore, and a paltry Rs 75 crore for augumenting civic amenities at BKC.
The authority has alloted Rs 1,000 crore each for the Dahisar-DN Nagar Metro-2A corridor (18.5-km, Rs 6,410 crore) and the Andheri East-Dahisar East Metro-7 corridor (16.5-km, Rs 6,208 crore).
The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 will get Rs 800 crore and DN Nagar to Mandale Metro-2B (23.5-km, Rs 10,986 crore) and Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane-Kasarvadavli Metro-4 corridors (32 -km, Rs 14,549 crore) have been alloted Rs 200 crore each.

The recently approved Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan Metro-5 (24-km, Rs 8,416 crore) and Swami Samarth Nagar-JVLR-Seepz- Vikhroli Metro-6 corridors (14.5-km, Rs 6,672 crore) have been given a token grant of Rs 5 crore each.
The authority also approved the new 13-km Dahisar East-Mira-Bhayander Metro line-9, which will have 10 stations and needs Rs 6,518 crore.

-------------------------------------------- BA deploys Dreamliner on London-Mumbai route
Mumbai: British Airways today announced deployment of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on the London-Mumbai sector with a first class option. The airline already flies a Dreamliner on the London-New Delhi sector.
Robert Williams, the airline's sales head, said the four-class configured 787-9 is 20 feet longer than its 787-8 predecessor. The First class offers only eight seats compared to the 14-seats cabin available on other long-haul aircraft. BA has 42 new generation 787s on order which will become the mainstay of the airline's fleet.

The airline has been flying to India for over 90 years and now operates 49 flights a week from Delhi, Mumbai,Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad to Heathrow Terminal 5.