Kanpur: Despite clearance of 11140 crore budget for metro project in the city by the Central government, the furtherance in the work was halted owing to the elections. The tender for priority section could not be initiated.
The officials related with the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation pointed out work tender on route from IIT via Kalyanpur railway station, SPM hospital, CSJMU, Gurudev Crossing, Hallet Hospital to Moti Jheel and nine other routes would be invited after the polls.
In the past days the teams from engineering section and property section under K K Singh, chief engineer and deputy chief engineer RP Gupta conducted survey of proposed Metro routes, station sites, Yards and Depots. They did not fail to find similarity in alignment and design of the metro rail. Along with them, Sanjay Mishra, director, (Works & Infrastructure) was also present.
Now the proposal for land acquisition will be completed through the UP state government' s help. It is expected that a huge sum of Rs 834 cr would be spent on the land acquisition.
According to the reports, ad many as 147 hectares of government and private land will be acquired. Its total value comes to Rs 800 crore. However one-third of the land about 37 hectares will be taken on the rent as this land will be returned later.
As many as nine metro stations will be constructed. As priority section route covers 8.5 km long distance from IIT to Moti Jheel, all the focus remains on this site in the initial stage. There will be two corridors first from IIT to Naubasta (23.875 Km) and secondly from CSA to Barra-8 (8.600 Km).
