The Centre has allocated ₹19,130 crore in the Union Budget 2022-23 for various metro projects across the country. Prior to this, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri had informed that 723 km of metro network was operational in 18 cities, and an additional 1,000 km of network is under construction in various cities and separately, six new proposals are also being evaluated. The DMRC network's current span is nearly 392 km with 286 stations (including the Noida– Greater Noida Metro Corridor and Rapid Metro, Gurgaon). Besides, metro services are operational in many other cities, including Lucknow, Mumbai, Banglore, Kochi, Hyderabad and recently became operational in Kanpur.
