In the bouquet of budget announcements Railway Minister Lalu Prasad made for Maharashtra, the decision to conduct a pre-feasibility study to introduce an elevated air-conditioned suburban train service in Mumbai has attracted attention of the city's seven million commuters.
The proposal is to introduce the service on the Mumbai Central-Virar suburban section of Western Railway (WR). After establishing the financial viability, its implementation will be considered through options like public-private partnership (PPP).
By 2008-09, 300 new services are planned on the suburban section to ease commuters' miseries. The trial run for issuing rail tickets, monthly season tickets and platform tickets on smart cards through PPP has already begun on Central Railway (CR).
The smart card scheme, to be commissioned by March, will be named "Go Mumbai Go". The cards will be sold at railway stations, BEST bus depots and other convenient locations in the city.
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