Proposal to extend Delhi metro’s red line approved, ET RealEstate
NEW DELHI: The Public Investment Board of the Union finance ministry has cleared the DDA-Union housing and urban development ministry proposal for the 26-km Rithala-Narela-Kundli Delhi Metro corridor, an extension of the existing Red Line. The proposal is now with the cabinet committee on economic affairs for final approval. This corridor will ensure seamless inter-state connectivity among Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana and transform Narela sub-city.
Lieutenant governor VK Saxena, in his effort to bring changes to Narela-Bawana and other outer Delhi areas, had taken up the subject of this metro corridor with the central govt on several occasions.
The Rithala-Narela-Kundli corridor will be constructed at a cost of Rs 6,231 crore with the Delhi portion estimated at Rs 5,685 crore and the Haryana portion at Rs 545.8 crore. “Nearly 40% of the cost of the Delhi component will be borne by the central govt, of which DDA alone will grant Rs 1,000 crore. Of the remaining cost, 37.5% will come from bilateral or multilateral loans and about 20% from Delhi govt. For the Haryana portion, while the state govt will provide grants amounting to 80%, the remaining 20% will come through central grants,” the LG’s office said in a statement on Saturday.
This corridor with 21 stations will be completed in four years once it’s sanctioned. “It will massively improve connectivity of the Narela-Bawana-Alipur areas with the remaining city and bring about an infrastructure boom in the area. It will provide impetus to growth and development of the Narela-Bawana sub-city and address the long-pending requirements of the Rohini sub-city,” said the statement.
In March, the Lajpat Nagar-Saket G Block and Inderlok-Indraprastha corridors, which are extensions, respectively, of the Golden and Green lines, were approved for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation‘s Phase IV expansion. However, the Rithala-Narela-Kundli corridor was awaiting approval. DMRC is currently constructing 65km of three priority Phase IV corridors: Janakpuri West-RK Ashram, Majlis Park-Maujpur and Aerocity-Tughlaqabad.
Delhi Metro is also connecting the city with neighbouring Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Bahadurgarh. Kundli in Haryana will be the new addition. The new corridor with seamless three-state inter-connectivity is likely to have a daily ridership of 1.3 lakh by 2028 when it is completed and 3.8 lakh by 2055,” the LG’s office said.
The Narela sub-city will get a major boost if the Delhi Metro line is constructed. Here, DDA is developing an education hub with campuses of seven universities and institutions, a multi-modal logistic park along the Urban Extension Road II, corporate offices and IT-ITeS arks, an AIIMS and a medical campus.
The area already houses Delhi Technological University, NIT Delhi, National Institute of Homoeopathy, Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Anaaj Mandi, Smriti Van and DDA housing projects. With a metro corridor, these institutions and housing colonies will get much-needed connectivity with other parts of Delhi.
Similarly, in the Rohini sub-city, the heliport at Sector-36, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Ambience Mall, Swarn Jayanti Park, sport complex in Sector-14, Rohini District Courts Complex and the Forensic Science Laboratory will also have the facility of metro connectivity.
The main stations on the new line will be at the seven sectors of Rohini, villages like Barwala, Sanoth, New Sanoth and Narela JJ Colony, two stations in the industrial area at Bawana and five in the Narela area, which includes Anaaj Mandi, DDA sports complex, Narela village, Depot station and Narela Sector-5.
