UP government has allocated ₹2,650 crore to complete the construction of the ongoing Metro rail projects, which include Kanpur, Agra metro rails, and the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor. It also allocated ₹100 crore for the upcoming Metro projects in Gorakhpur, Varanasi, and other cities. Around ₹747 crore has been allocated for Kanpur Metro in the current fiscal, while ₹597 crore is for Agra Metro. A sum of ₹1,306 crore has been earmarked for the construction work of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS Corridor being executed by the National Capital Region Transport Corporation. The construction work on the Gorakhpur Metro project will be started soon. MD, UPMRC, Kumar Keshav informed that the Kanpur Metro project is worth ₹11,076 crore of which 50% is being funded by the European Investment Bank, and the rest by the Centre and state in a 60:40 ratio. The Gorakhpur project is awaiting approval of the Union cabinet as the state cabinet and Public Investment Board chaired by the Union finance secretary and expenditure had already approved the first phase of the project which will have 14 elevated stations on a 15.14 km stretch in the first phase. The estimated cost of the first phase is ₹2,670.37 crore, which means the per km cost of the project is about ₹167.8 crore.
