YEIDA plans ₹2,000-cr new metro corridor

Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) has decided to connect the upcoming Jewar International Airport at Noida with the Blue Line. The new metro corridor will be in addition to various other high profile metro connectivity projects to link the airport with Delhi and the rest of NCR. CEO of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida), Arun Vir Singh, informed that the new corridor, which will be known as Jewar Metro, will connect to the Delhi Metro at the existing Botanical Garden Metro Station and the authority itself will build the Jewar Metro. The authority has got verbal approval from the state government and is currently seeking written sanctions for the project. Once completed, the Jewar Metro would be just about 35 km elevated and the rest till Jewar airport would run underground along Jewar-Sikandrabad road. This line will be in addition to the 14-km link between Botanical Garden Metro station to Noida Metro's Aqua Line Sector 142 Metro station. The Noida and Greater Noida authorities and UP government will jointly spend about ₹2,000 crore on the mega project and DPR for the 14-km Metro corridor from Botanical Garden to sector 142 is ready.