A Metro Advisory Board has been set up to formulate plans for expansion and financing of Metro rail projects across the country by the Union Urban Development Ministry. The statutory body to be chaired by the Secretary, Urban Development, will be a platform for exchange of ideas, information, planning, technical and managerial issues related to the Metro systems.
“Standardisation and indigenisation have been the focus areas of the Ministry. It is for the first time that an Advisory Board has been formed.