Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / Nov 1, 2021
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday flagged off the trial run of Kanpur Metro, which is expected to cost more than Rs 11,000 crore.
Last year, the European Investment Bank (EIB) had consented to provide a loan of Euro 650 million for the mega project.
Kanpur Metro is now expected to start the commercial operations before December 31, 2021, which means it would be up and running much before the crucial next UP assembly polls in the early months of 2022.
“Kanpur is now a metro city both in terms of population and on account of good passenger transport infra too,” the CM said in his message after the flagging off ceremony. He also travelled in a coach during the inaugural trial run to get the first hand information of the ambitious project.
In the first phase, Kanpur Metro will traverse nine km between IIT Kanpur and Motijheel stations. In all, two corridors of more than 32 km are proposed as part of the larger Kanpur Metro blueprint.
While, the first corridor spans 23.8 km from IIT Kanpur to Naubasta, the second 8.6 km corridor runs from Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University to Barra area.
Even during lockdown, the ‘strategic execution’ of the Kanpur Metro project ensured the civil work progressed unhindered on the 9 km priority corridor.
Interestingly, the Kanpur Metro is the first Indian metro where pre-cast double T-girders have been used for constructing the concourse level of metro stations.
Meanwhile, the Yogi government is working on another metro project in Agra. Last year, the Supreme Court (SC) had cleared the Rs 8,380 crore Agra Metro project, thus paving way for the mass rapid transit system (MRTS) in the Taj City.
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