Chandigarh Metro


Chandigarh Metro was a proposed rapid transit system for the city and union territory of Chandigarh in India. The project was scrapped in 2017 due to viability.

History

submitted the detailed project report of the Chandigarh Metro Project to Punjab Governor and UT administrator Shivraj Patil on 16 August 2012.
On 9 July 2015, in the presence of Kaptan Singh Solanki, who is the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh as well as the Governor of Haryana, the MoU was signed by the Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana Town and Country Planning Department, P Raghavendra Rao, the Secretary, Town and Planning, Punjab, A Venu Prasad, and the UT Adviser, Vijay Kumar Dev. As part of the MoU, the three parties also named the special purpose vehicle to execute the project as the Greater Chandigarh Transport Corporation for the development of comprehensive integrated multi-modal urban and sub-urban commuter system for the region.
The initial equity of the GCTC shall be Rs 100 crore, which will be contributed equally — 25 per cent each — by the Union Ministry of Urban Development, the UT Administration, Haryana and Punjab.

Plan

In the first phase, a 37.573 km metro rail network would be built of which 23.468 km would be elevated and 14.105 km underground Corridor. It would run from north to south. It would start near Capitol Complex and would go up to Mohali. Corridor II, also known as East West Corridor, would start from Sector 21, Panchkula and reach up to Mullanpur.

Routes

The proposed routes for the various corridors of the metro network are as follows:
The project is expected to cost, out of which will be borne by Chandigarh Administration, will be borne by Punjab Govt. and the remaining by Haryana Govt. The expected cost of the metro elevated section is per Km and that of the metro underground section is per Km. The metro will be completed in two phases. The estimated cost of Phase-I is and that of Phase-II is.