Summary:
After terminating the contract of Malaysia-based Scomi Engineering for 'non-performance', the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has initiated informal talks with Scomi to procure spare parts for Mumbai Monorail. Ever since the monorail became fully operational last month, MMRDA has been struggling for procurement of spare parts. Apart from aiming to repair six defunct trains, MMRDA has also floated bids to procure 10 trains. The MMRDA source added, "We have information that Scomi has some spare parts available with them in Malaysia. An MMRDA source said that many vendors are reluctant as they have some sort of arrangement that spare parts relating to Monorail can only be supplied by Scomi..