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Chennai Metro Rail has fast tracked the ground work to start construction of the Phase 2 part of the project with the local agencies acquiring 82% of the required land for the mega metro project worth Rs 61,843 crore. CMRL is keen to commission the Poonamallee-PowerHouse stretch in the next three years. Out of the 112.72 hectares of land that the 118.9-km project needs, 93 hectares has already been acquired. There are, however, challenges in acquiring land at certain locations such as Kaliamman Koil Street, Vadapalani, and Arcot Road, but CMRL is working hard to resolve the issues as the contractors are also keen to start construction as quickly as possible. CMRL has taken specific measures to simplify the land acquisition process as the sizes of the stations have been reduced from 220 meters in Phase 1 to 150 meters in Phase 2; each station will have only two entry and exit points instead of four in the Phase-I