Varanasi: Kashi waits to become the first city of India to have the next Ropeway Public Transportation System extended because the authority of the development of Varanasi (VDA) has extended the date of completing the tender submission process in the view of the assembly.
“Because they were promulgated Vda also issued a press release which stated that because there was no bidder that could submit a tender until the last date for the Ropeway project, it was decided to keep the tender process open until March 31.
Officials said that during a pre-offer meeting last year, many global aisles and leading global lifts producers from the US, Austria, France and Malaysia have taken part in the process and show interest in carrying out the Ambitious RS 410-Crore Ropeway business in Kashi.
But, as a large paper WO RK was asked to submit a tender by the company and they could not solve it in the time scheduled for a Christmas holiday, they had searched for the last date extension from December 23, 2021, said the addition of officials, considering the last date was extended until January 31.
However, when the assembly selection process began at the end of December, participating companies preferred to wait to take part in the tender process, they said.
Slapse, the company prefers to wait for the establishment of a new government in the state before submitting tenders given the changes carried out in the components of the mass-fast transportation system by the government of Bharatiya Janata after power in the 2017 state by rejecting the Metro Rails proposal approved for Varanasi by the Samjwadi government Previously, said the source, said that participating companies wanted to ensure that no change would be made after the process had begun.
However, Vda officials are convinced about the completion of the tender process for the Kashis Ropeway project because they are also sure of the project that will be launched on the public private partnership model and its viability in the old city area.
The reason behind the belief of the Nodal Agent for the implementation of the Nodal project is the participation of representatives of six companies, including ECL SDN BHD management from Malaysia, Doppelmayr Garaventa from Austrian Poma companies and French companies in pre-supply meetings, organized by Vda in November 2021 and also requests They to extend the last date for the tender archiving.
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The service will start with 220 cable cars, which will be available at the station equipped with escalator in a range of 90-120 seconds.
Each cable carriage will take 15 minutes to finish the end-to-end trip, officials said.
The Ropeway system was chosen as a MRTS component, following the refusal of the Metro Rail plan for Kashi in June 2018.