The country's first International Financial Services Centre, GIFT City at Gandhinagar in Gujarat will get metro rail connectivity under the ₹5,384 crore Phase-2 of the Ahmedabad Metro project destined to be completed in the next two years. The second phase of construction involves two elevated corridors. The first corridor will begin at the Narendra Modi cricket stadium at Motera (where Phase-1 culminates) and extend northwards connecting Sector-1 and Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar. At the GNLU metro station, a short 5.42 km of metro rail line will branch out eastwards and connect GIFT City across the dry riverbed of the Sabarmati river. The civil work tender for constructing the metro that extends towards GIFT City is part of the tender for constructing the metro between Motera and GNLU and GIFT CITY. It is worth ₹1011.59 crore and has been awarded to Afcons Infrastructure, a part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. Afcons will construct 8.1-kilometre elevated viaduct and eight stations between Motera and GNLU station and will also construct the 5.4 km between GNLU station and GIFT City. This stretch between GNLU station and GIFT City will also have PDEU (Pandit Deendayal Energy University) as a station.
