After having missed the proposed start of commercial run in the last week of March 2017, Lucknow Metro Rail – a pet project of the previous Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh – the mega project is gathering steam under the incumbent Yogi Adityanath regime.
Lucknow Metro along with Agra-Lucknow Expressway and Lucknow IT City were the projects patronised by Yadav.
European Investment Bank (EIB) has recently signed an agreement with the Centre in New Delhi to advance 250 million Euros (about Rs 1,752 crore) credit line to Lucknow Metro as second tranche of the loan amount for the project.
Earlier, EIB vice