Kanpur: Now, work on the metro rails will get a boost following the State government's budget of Rs 597 Crore for the financial year 2021-22.
Kanpur Metro project was approved with Rs 11076 Crore by the Centre and the State governments.
Earlier, in the year 2019-20 a sum of Rs 175 Crore and the year 2020-21 a sum of Rs 358.20 Crore were sanctioned for the project by the UP government.
While the Central Government has given a sum of Rs78.11 Crore for the year2019-20 and Rs 1175 Crore ( EIB soft loan of Rs 651 Crore included) for the year respectively.
The initial phase of the metro project will cover CSA to Barra 8 and IIT to Moti Jheel in the city areas.
