A day after the contract for civil work on the first line of Mumbai Metro was awarded, a senior government official said on Wednesday that work on the second line of the project is likely to begin by June.
"We are presently carrying out technical evaluations and should invite bids after that," Metropolitan Commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Ratnakar Gaikwad said.
There was a problem regarding a plot which was to be used as a car depot for the project, since it had been encroached upon, the city's civic body had been asked to clear the encroachers, Gaikwad said.
The second line of the metro project, estimated to cost Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion), is to be built between western suburb Charkop and eastern Mankhurd.
The MMRDA is also considering building the third line between