Metro Railways Act 1978

 Metro Railways Act 1978

Delhi metro has developed today's time transport system. Traffic has increased in and reaching on is always a problem. Delhi metro was introduced to solve this problem. The concept of mass rapid transit, in 2005, the metro started to develop through red line, later the yellow line was introduced and in 2008, the blue line was introduced. It is not wrong to say that the metro has made connectivity faster and easily.

In 1978, the metro railways construction act was introduced by the parliament act of India that governs the construction works relating to the metro. This act was enacted in 1978, this act was applied in Calcutta. This act empowered the central government to by notification in the Gazette of India, it also extended to any metropolitan city.

 The history of the act dates backs to the metro railways bill introduced in 1978, it was introduced in Lok Sabha on 12th May 1978. This bill was easily passed by the house on 26th July. This bill received assent from the n president known as Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and finally, the act came into force on 1 Feb 1979.

 as the times have passed the act was amended accordingly, in 1982. The amendment introduced this year was that the name of the act was changed to be metro railways (construction work) amendment act 1982 into the metro railways. The second act was amended in 2009, the bill titled the metro railways (amendment ) bill 2009 was passed by the Lok Sabha on 6th august 2009.

In a recent case, the Delhi High court slams parallel talks. In this case, justice Suresh Kait said that a subsidiary of reliance infrastructure has not approached the court with clean hands. It also gave the option to the company to resolve their issue outside the court.  The Delhi court on Tuesday pulled up Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited for carrying out a parallel settlement discussion with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. 

The court also viewed that the petitioner (DAMEPL)counsel is submitting to the court to settle the dispute between the parties using some other method that didn't involve the court. The court also observed that DAMEPL was not fair to the court despite having won the arbitral award. The judge noted that according to its December 22, 2021 order, DMRC has filed an affidavit furnishing the details of its bank accounts with the balance amount.

In November, the apex court had dismissed DMRC's plea seeking a review of the judgment which was upheld the 2017 arbitration award in favor of DAMEPL, enforced against it. It was finally stated that the arbitration award will be enforceable against DMRC. The claim made by the DAMEPL was reduced by the court as it analyzed that the claim should be 5000 crores.

Indian transportation has increased and has developed in many spheres.