nagpur in view of poor response received from bidders mahametro has changed the development model of 25storey traffic and transport management centre ttmc opposite yeshwant stadium the building will be one of the tallest in the city after completionearlier the private operator was to construct the project on its own and pay royalty to the metro agency however during the prebid meeting construction companies said that it would be difficult for them to obtain all clearances from agencies like nagpur municipal corporation nmc mahametro therefore decided to construct the structure itself using the operators moneywe will obtain all the permissions needed for construction the operator will pay us money in instalments it will also do the interiors it will start paying us royalty when it starts leasing out the property the exact revenue model is however being worked out said brijesh dixit managing director of mahametroadmitting that the slump in real estate market had hit the project he said that the construction model may be changed if it does not get proper responsethe project will come up on patwardhan ground which is spread over an area of around 20000 square metre the ttmc will be connected with sitabuldi metro station with an elevated skywalk metro will provide bus connectivity and parking in the ttmc the construction will have a floor to space index fsi of 4 and will be spread over 983 lakh square feet some 292 lakh square feet will be dedicated to free parkingone ttmc tower will be 25 storey high while the remaining two will have 19 floors all the towers will have retail mall on ground first and second floors and small offices on third fourth and fifth floors a threelevel multiplex has been envisaged above fifth floor in tower 1 and fifteen floor of offices in towers 1 and 3retail mall would have online stores food court family entertainment centre large format stores supermarket mini anchor fashion store mini anchor for electronics and home decor etc the basement will be completely dedicated to parking there will be 600 bays for parking of cars 1050 bays for parking of motorcycles and 1000 slots for bicycleslt leased trains on cms requestwhile activist prashant pawar had alleged that mahametro leased two trains from l t which runs the hyderabad metro because it is a private company documents obtained by toi show otherwise l t was extremely reluctant to provide the two trains six coaches sought by mahametro it was only after maharashtra chief minister devendra fadnavis wrote a letter to his telangana counterpart in may 2017 that l t changed its decisionmahametro was forced to lease l t trains because they are similar to the nagpur metro ones both have three coaches and front evacuation facility commissioner of metro rail safety cmrs had asked mahametro to conduct trial run only with trains that are similar to the ones to be used by nagpur metro l t took advantage of this fact and charged