The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has backed out of Kerala’s proposed Rs 6,728-crore Light Metro in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. DMRC principal advisor E Sreedharan has officially communicated this decision to the state government.
According to the letter that E Sreedharan has written to Kerala government principal secretary (public works) G Kamalavardhana Rao, DMRC’s decision comes following the state government’s reluctance to sign the turnkey consultancy agreement for the preparatory works of the transit system, even 14 months after the consultancy was assigned to DMRC.