Cities with over 20 lakh population to get metro rail

"We have already asked the state governments to conduct feasibility studies for metro rail projects in the cities with a population of 20 lakh or more," Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath said replying to the debate on the Demand for Grants of Ministry of Urban Development for 2012-13.

At present the cities where the metro rail projects are at various stages of implementation include Hyderabad, Jaipur, Chennai, Chandigarh, Kochi and Mumbai.

About the Kochi metro rail project, he said, a Cabinet proposal for it would be moved soon.

Replying to the demand of the Congress member J P Aggarwal on extension of the metro rail project in important locations in his North East Delhi constituency, Nath said a feasibility study on the metro link in that area is being conducted which will take another 5-6 months.

 

The minister said that feasibility studies of Mundaka- Bahadurgarh is also under consideration.