Kanpur Metro rail inaugurated by PM Modi! Check corridors, technology, facilities & other details
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kanpur Metro rail network. The foundation stone of the project was laid by the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav along with then Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu in the year 2016. In 2019, development work for the metro project was started by CM Yogi Adityanath and so far, a 9 kilometre stretch of the 32.5 kilometre long route has been completed. The Kanpur Metro rail project is proposed to have two corridors. The first stretch of 23.8 kilometre long corridor has been planned from IIT Kanpur to Kanpur’s Naubasta area, while the second 8.6 kilometre long stretch is proposed from Chandrashekhar Azad Agriculture University to Barra area of the city, according to an IE report.
The Kanpur Metro rail project’s cost is about Rs 11,000 crore. The foundation stone of the project was laid in October 2016, just before the Assembly polls of 2017. However, the present UP government claimed that the actual construction work on the 9 kilometre long “priority stretch” was started on 15 November 2019. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the work on this stretch has been completed, the Yogi government claimed. Thus, CM Yogi had ordered a trial run of Kanpur Metro on 10 November 2021.
