Noida: Yogi Adityanath cabinet has given a big gift to Noida of Uttar Pradesh. The UP cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposed metro route between Sector-142 of Metro’s Aqua Line to Botanical Garden, the interchange of Blue and Magenta Line. 8 stations will be built on this elevated route along the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. In December, Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) got the DPR of this route approved from the board. After this, it was sent to the UP government for approval. Now after the approval of the UP cabinet, the approval of the Center is left. For this also NMRC will soon send DPR. Officials said that a board meeting is proposed in the next two days. In this meeting, information will be given by placing a cabinet note. After this, the DPR will be sent to the Center.
The route will be 11.56 km
Running the metro on this line will provide more convenience to commuters from Noida-Delhi to Greater Noida. Greater Noida will also have connectivity to Indira Gandhi Airport and railway. Currently, NMRC is operating the metro on the Aqua Line between Noida-Greater Noida. The Aqua Line starts from Sector-51 and runs till Greater Noida Depot. The new route of the metro will be 11.56 km. Eight metro stations will be built on it. The estimated cost is around Rs 2254 crore.
People coming from Delhi by Blue Line or Magenta Line have to get down at Sector-52 station of Blue Line. From here people reach Sector-51 station of Aqua Line by foot or e-rickshaw. From here they go to different parts of Noida and Greater Noida. Now Aqua Line is being expanded. A new metro line will come from Sector-142 of Aqua Line to Botanical Garden. Currently there are stations of Blue and Magenta Line running between Noida-Delhi at Botanical Garden. In lieu of the State Government, half the money will be borne by Noida-Greater Noida Authority together. It will cost around Rs 20 crore to build one station.The third station will be built here for Aqua Line, while it will be connected to the old station through track at Sector-142. 20 percent of the cost of the new metro route will be given by the Center and 20 percent by the State Government.
These will be the metro stations
- Sector-38A Botanical Garden
- Sector-44- In front of F Block Park
- Sector-96- Noida Authority Office
- Sector-97- About 150 meters from Unitech Building towards Greater Noida
- Sector-105- Near Hajipur Underpass
- Sector-108- Near JP Flyover (Sector-82 Flyover)
- Sector-93- Between Parshvanath Prestige and Eldeco Society
- Sector-91 In front of Panchsheel Inter College
- Construction of FOB on Expressway
Construction of FOB on Expressway
When you drive from Mahamaya flyover towards Greater Noida, this metro route will pass through the service road of the expressway on the left side. FOBs will be built directly from the metro station for the old sectors of the city. At the same time, FOBs will be built from the metro station for the sectors on the other side after crossing the expressway. In this way, there will be at least two FOBs at every metro station. This time, parking planning is already being done on this route of the metro. The largest area at every station will be reserved for surface parking. Future needs will be met by having parking at every station. Due to the route being along the expressway, the need for parking will also be more here.
Greater Noida West Metro Project: No buzz
A new route will start from Sector-51 Metro Station of Aqua Line and will go near Sector-61 Metro Station of Blue Line. A common platform of Blue and Aqua Line will be built here. In this change, the new DPR has increased the Metro route by 2 stations, 2.48 km length and Rs 794 crore cost. he Greater Noida West Metro Project, whose tender was issued earlier and the file had reached the Centre for approval, is not even a buzz on that route and project of the Metro at the moment. NMRC has sent the new DPR to the government.
The old DPR had received the approval of the administration and the UP government. Now the new DPR has to move forward after the approval of UP. After the cabinet approval of Sector-142 to Botanical Garden route, the residents of Greater Noida West have once again started raising questions on the delay along with the demand for the Metro project.
