The number of families who stand to lose their livelihoods or get displaced by construction of Surat Metro in Gujarat is expected to reduce by 70 per cent, according to officials of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC).
Redesigning the metro stations and bringing about small modifications in the alignment of metro rail route has helped in reducing the displacement of people, said senior officials of Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC).
“In the Surat Metro project, we have reduced the number of Project Affected Families (PAFs) from 660 to 192, by making minor realignments. Major acquisition of private properties is done for stations and so we decided to redesign stations in such a way that the least number of families living around the proposed stations on the metro route gets affected,” a senior official of GMRC told The Indian Express.
