Kanpur Metro

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Kanpur Metro कानपुर मेट्रो
Background
Locale	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	8
Number of stations	28
Headquarters	KMRC (Kanpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.)
Operation will start	2016
Technical
System length	84 km
Track gauge	Standard gauge

Kanpur Metro Railway

Kanpur Airport

Ramadevi

COD

Kanpur Cantonment

Kanpur Central

Kanpur Anwarganj

Moti Jheel

Kakadev

Kanpur University

IIT-K

Bithoor

The Kanpur Metro (Hindi: कानपुर मेट्रो) is a mass rapid transit system for the city of Kanpur. The project is under the approval of ministry of Uttar Pradesh & Government of India.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Kanpur Metro Rail is likely to be completed around 2016. Kanpur is enlisted as the counter magnet city for National Capital Region of Delhi. Kanpur is the largest metro city in Uttar Pradesh.^[5]

Project

Phase 1 Railway Officials are electrifying Track from Auraiya - Anwarganj to Mandhana but in between one way is coming down. If there is project of Anwarganj-Mandhana train track to be moved off than the stations on that track can be Metro Stations.

Development of Anwarganj, Kalianpur and Rawatpur stations has been done by using millions of Rupees. If track is being moved off than government is not going to leave stations like that. Officers told that Metro trains are planned to be run from Kanpur Central to Mandhana on flyover so that the crossing will get moved off. Rail Budgest is being waited to come.^[6] MLA Salil Vishnoi talked to Chief Minister for Metro Rail in city.^[7]

Cost

KDA (Kanpur Development Authority) Secretary O.N Singh said about 27 km long metro project of First Line of Central to Bithoor is estimated to cost Rs 6,500 crore.^[8]

Corridors

The first phase include line from Bithoor-Kanpur Airport.

References

v t e Kanpur division topics

General	Doab Dainik Jagaran National Chambal Sanctuary Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary

Mythology, history	Panchala Panchala Kingdom Siege of Cawnpore Second Battle of Cawnpore

Districts	Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Kanpur Dehat

Rivers, dams, lakes	Chambal Ganges Kali Ramganga Sindh Yamuna Ganges Barrage Moti Jheel

Languages, people	Awadhi Braj Bhasa Hindustani Kannauji Khariboli Standard Hindi Urdu

Transport	NH 2 Grand Trunk Road NH 26 NH 86 NH 96 SMSKBT Kanpur over-bridge Kanpur Airport IIT Kanpur Airport Kanpur Civil Airport Kanpur Central railway station Kanpur Anwarganj railway station Govind Nagar Panki Chandari Junction railway station Chakeri Shuklaganj Rawatpur Kalianpur Mandhana Bithoor Chobepur Maharajpur Sarsaul Bhaupur Gangaghat Magarwara Howrah-Delhi main line Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway Kanpur Monorail Kanpur Metro Kanpur Metropolitan Bus Service

Industries	Panki Thermal Power Station Lohia Machinery Limited Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India British India Corporation Rupani Footwear

Institutes of higher learning	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur University List of engineering colleges in Kanpur Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College

Lok Sabha constituencies in Megapolitan Region	Kanpur Akbarpur Ghatampur Bilhaur Unnao Auraiya Fatehpur Sikandra

See also	Cities and towns in Auraiya district Cities and towns in Etawah district Cities and towns in Farrukhabad district Cities and towns in Kannauj district Cities and towns in Kanpur district Cities and towns in Ramabai Nagar district Villages in Auraiya district Villages in Etawah district Villages in Farrukhabad district Villages in Kannauj district Villages in Kanpur district Villages in Ramabai Nagar district People from Etawah People from Farrukhabad People from Kanpur People from Ramabai Nagar district Kanpur topics

Other Divisions	Agra Aligarh Allahabad Azamgarh Bareilly Basti Chitrakoot Devipatan Faizabad Gorakhpur Jhansi Lucknow Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Saharanpur Varanasi

Rapid rail transit in India

Metro

Operational	Chennai MRTS Delhi Metro Kolkata Metro Namma Metro (Bangalore) Rapid Metro (Gurgaon)

Under construction	Chennai Metro Hyderabad Metro Jaipur Metro Kochi Metro Mumbai Metro Navi Mumbai Metro

Planned	Bhopal Metro Chandigarh Metro Guwahati Metro Indore Metro Kanpur Metro Lucknow Metro Ludhiana Metro MEGA Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Nasik Metro Nagpur Metro National Capital Region Metro Patna Metro Pune Metro Surat Metro WREC (Mumbai)

Monorail

Operational	Mumbai Monorail

Under construction	Kozhikode Monorail

Planned	Ahmedabad Monorail Aizawl Monorail Allahabad Monorail Bangalore Monorail Chennai Monorail Coimbatore Monorail Delhi Monorail Indore Monorail Kanpur Monorail Kolkata Monorail Navi Mumbai Monorail Patna Monorail Pune Monorail Tiruchirappalli Monorail Thiruvananthapuram Monorail

Defunct	Kundala Valley Railway Patiala State Monorail Trainways

Light rail

Operational	Kolkata tram

Planned	Delhi LRTS Kolkata LRTS

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