Metro in Lucknow to start soon

Come June this year and Lucknow people can experience the metro rail.  Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday announced that the first phase of Lucknow Metro will start for the public in second half of June this year. “Considerable progress has been made on the Lucknow Metro project. The previous government had dedicated only a half-complete metro rail project in Lucknow. We have received only three trains up to now. We will need one more train. The necessary instructions in this regard have been issued,” he said after a meeting with union urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu here. The chief minister also said: “The work on metro first phase, about 8 km, is nearing completion. The procedure that includes the railway safety commissioner’s clearance will need about one-and-a-half months. We will be able to complete all these procedures only after mid-June 2017.” He informed that there was a need to set up metro rail in Kanpur and Varanasi. “We have sent the detailed project reports (DPRs) for Kanpur and Varanasi projects. We have also initiated the process of preparing DPR for Meerut, Agra and Allahabad and sought preparation of DPR for Jhansi and Gorakhpur too,” he said.