Varanasi: The leading global ropeway-and-ski lift manufacturer of Austria, France and Malaysia showed interest in carrying out the Ambitious RP 410-Crore ROPEWY business in Kashi, straddling 4 km between Varanasi Junction and Godowlia in the first phase.
If the offer comes on the deadline of December 11, PM Modi will also laid the foundation of the Ropeway project during its tentative visit to Varanasi on December 13 to open the Kashi Vishwanath Dham 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 through Rathyatra on RS 410.3 Crore investment.
The service will begin with 220 cable cars, which will be available at the Escalator station equipped with 90-120 second ranges, he said.
Every cable car will take 15 minutes to complete the final trip to the end.
Follow the final presentation of the detailed project report on the Ropeway for Kashi by Wapcos Limited, an accredited public sector company under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, in September, Vda has submitted Proposal to the state government for approval Technical and Indian Rail Economy (Rite) to prepare propo Sal by combining differences in transportation equipment.
Rite included metro light, ropeways, and waterways in a revised plan and gave presentations in December 2019 by defining the alignment of their operations.