"Once the authorities succeed in finalising the space for setting up the car shed, the Metro project will be launched," Chavan told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), the implementing agency for the proposed project, today made a presentation before Chavan on the Metro plan. NIT hopes to finalise the project within one or two weeks.
Chavan was in Nagpur to launch a Rs 132-crore beautification project for the shrine of sufi saint Hazrat Baba Tajuddin.
The total cost of the metro project is estimated at around Rs 90 billion.
Chavan said that the state government wanted to announce the metro project when it had finalised a similar plan for Pune, but could not do so since the car shed location was not finalised.
The project will have two routes - Automotive square, Kamptee, to MIHAN Metro depot and the second, Prajapati Nagar, East Wardhaman Nagar to Lokmanya Nagar, Hingna.
A major station is proposed at Munje Square where the two routes would meet.
Meanwhile, referring to the Congress-NCP seat sharing talks for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Chavan said, "The talks will be held sometime later. Since Congress is the senior alliance partner with NCP, I don't see any difficulty in the seat-sharing formula.
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