Title - Instructions given to shift sewer, electricity and telecom lines for metro work

LUCKNOW: Due to beginning of metro construction from Amausi airport to Alambagh in the first phase, the metro cell has begun the ground work of formalities. The chairman of metro cell and housing secretary, Rajiv Agarwal recently held a meeting with officials from Lucknow Development Authority, Nagar Nigam, Jal Sansthan, Jal Nigam, Public Works Department, LESA, BSNL and other concerned departments and instructed them to do mapping of all underground services like telephone, electricity cables and sewer, water pipelines from Amausi to Alambagh area.The top officials of these departments would have to visit the spot and identify various underground services like sewer lines, telephone cable, electricity wires, drains, nullah, roads, street lights falling within the metro route. They would also have to identify new places where the existent services need to be shifted as soon as the metro work begins. The officials have bene instructed to submit the report in the next 15 days to the metro cell.Agarwal said, "We have been getting a lot of cooperation and encouragement from various government departments on the metro rail project. The DMRC would very soon submit the detailed design of metro route after which we would begin construction of metro. It should start off by December in all likelihood."

Notably, LESA has already begun the survey of underground cable wires for the North-South corridor. They have informed about the status of survey to the metro cell. They also confirmed they would submit the report very soon. nagar Nigam is also expected to begin its work in a day or two.

As per estimation, around 690 plants, 661 street lights posts, 75 traffic light poles, 661 telephone poles, 740 electricity poles, 115 electricity junction boxes, 98 transformers and 13478.65 metre long gas pipeline exist in the metro route of North-South corridor which is to be covered in the first phase.

Apart from these, around 61 religious institutions and 39 educational and medical institutions fall within 30 metre range of the proposed N-S corridor (in 23 kms) In East-West corridor, 28 religious institutes and 17 educational institutions are falling within the same range.