Metro details chalked out,report by month-end

The DMRC General Manager (Consultancy),S D Sharma said: “As the alignment has taken the final shape,we are going to submit the detailed project report within next 15 days.”

On February 5,2009,the LDA had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the DMRC,following which the latter carried out a detailed study of the city’s traffic and prepared the report.

It was to be submitted by mid-September 2009,but it got delayed as the finalisation of the alignment took time.

The Lucknow Metro is proposed to be developed in two corridors — East-West and North-South.

The proposed East-West corridor is to start from Charbagh and end in Basant Kunj on Hardoi Road,Sharma said. Covering a distance of 13 kms,the corridor will connect Gautam Buddha Marg,Aminabad,Medical University,Chowk and Thakurganj areas.

The over 25-km North-South corridor is to begin from Amausi airport. “This one will have a junction at the Polytechnic crossing,from where the Metro will be diverted to Munshipulia and towards Gomti Nagar,” Sharma said. It will connect Hussainganj,Hazratganj,Parivartan Chowk-IT Crossing,Nishatganj and Polytechnic crossing.

There will be over 35 stations and two depots on these routes. In a meeting with state government officials on May 21,the DMRC had made a presentation of tentative designs of depots and stations proposed on the two corridors.

For the land acquisition,Lucknow Divisional Commissioner Prashant Trivedi had been asked to coordinate with different departments like the ASI,the National Highways Authority of India,Railways,PWD,Jal Nigam and the Airports Authority of India. But though over one-and-a-half-months have passed,no meeting of these departments has been held so far.

“The first meeting will be called very soon,” said Trivedi.