Varanasi: The leading global ropeway-and-ski elevator manufacturers of Austria, USA, France and Malaysia showed interest in carrying out the Ambitious RS 410-Crore Ropeway business in Kashi, straddling 4 km between Varanasi Junction and Godowlia in the first phase.
If the offer comes to the December 11 deadline, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also lay the foundation of the Ropeway project during his tentative visit to Varanasi on December 13 to open the Dham Kashi Vishwanath corridor.
Wisdom is key, the authority of the development of Varanasi (VDA) holds a pre-supply meeting with companies that express interest in the project on Tuesday.
Speaking with Toi, Deputy Chairperson of Vda Isha Duhan said, “representatives of six companies, including ECL SDN BHD management from Malaysia, Doppelmayr Garaventa from the Austrian company Ropeways company and the French company participated in their pre-offer meeting, when discussing the details of Venture Ropeway details, which will be launched in the Public Private Partnership model (PPP).
Many other companies have shown interest in online, but their representatives do not take part in this meeting.
“ENLY bid can be revised after overcoming the problem submitted by the company after discussion with the state government, he said , adding revised tenders will float again in a few days.
“The last date to complete the tender process is December 11,” he said.
Although similar projects are on pipelines in Ayodhya, Varanasi can become the first Indian city to have a public transportation train taking off.
“In the initial phase, the ROPEWAY will be installed between Godowlia and the Cantonment train station via Rathyatra on RS 410.3 Crore investment.
The service will begin with 220 cable cars, which will be available at the station equipped with an escalator in a range of 90-120 seconds, he said.
Each cable carriage will take 15 minutes to complete the end-to-end trip.
After the last presentation of the detailed project report on the Ropeway for Kashi by Wapcos Limited, a public sector company was accredited under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, in September, Vda has been submit a proposal to the state government.
Then, it was sent to the Urban Ministry of Development, which led to a floating tender process.
The Ropeway system was chosen as a component of the MRTS, following the refusal of the Metro Rail plan for Kashi in June 2018.
Given the reality of the city, Vda has requested service Technical and Indian Rail Economy (Rite) to prepare proposals by combining different means of transportation.
Rite included metro light, ropeways, and waterways in a revised plan and gave presentations in December 2019 by defining the alignment of their operations.