LMRC launches ground-work for ₹4,100-cr metro project

The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) has recently launched ground works for the metro project in Gorakhpur after surveying metro routes in the city and identified the likely difficulties during the metro construction, commissioner and vice chairman of the Gorakhpur Development Authority (GDA) said adding that he also met LMRC Director Kumar Keshav and Chief Engineer Ravi Jain, who also visited the metro route with PWD engineers.

The construction of ₹4,100 crore metro project with two corridors will have 27 stations and the work is all set to start shortly after the Centre's approval. The officials inspected the routes from Mohaddipur to the railway station, Gorakhnath temple gate to Bargadwa and Shyam Nagar, Gulriha to Transport Nagar via Asurn. It is proposed that the metro will run in Gorakhpur on elevated tracks. However, it will be a bit tough to construct pillars on a four-lane road. Engineers will try to find an alternative so that metro pillars can be built without any trouble along with the four-lane road, which is currently under construction on the metro route between Shyam Nagar and Divyanagar while construction has been completed between Mohaddipur and Gurung Tiraha and that the work is in full swing between Gurung Tiraha and Suba Bazar.