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. The station was opened on 29 November 2019, two years after first commercial operation of Hyderabad metro started. It is located near

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Junction. Raidurg metro station is one of the busiest metro stations in Hyderabad with daily footfalls of around 25,000 commuters. In February 2020, Synchrony Financial became the sponsor of the Raidurg metro station, under semi-naming policy of Hyderabad metro to generate non-fare revenues. Raidurg station is terminal point of Blue Line, from where Phase 2

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will commence. This station was proposed in 2012. Initially, the metro rail was supposed to terminate at

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but as it was found to be a lake bed, the line was extended by a kilometre to Raidurg where a 15-acre site was earmarked. Raidurg station is opposite Lemon Tree Hotel and TCS Deccan Park. It is 1.6 km from

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. Mindspace underpass was constructed as part of Strategic road development plan (SRDP), near Raidurg metro station. In April 2022, 1 km long skywalk was inaugurated that connects Raidurg metro station to strategic locations in and around the

campus. In September 2022, Ratnadeep Supermarket was opened in Raidurg metro station. L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited is planning to build Hyderabad's biggest mall (of about one million square feet) near Raidurg metro station. In September 2022, as part of

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, L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail entered into a pact to sublease its prime land parcel at Raidurg Knowledge City opposite IKEA to Brookfield Group at for a 50-year lease period. In November 2022, L&T opened a new, 100,000 sq. ft. state-of-the art digital experience centre for

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in the L&T Metro Building (L&T Next Avenue B1) opposite IKEA. The existing corridor three ( Blue line) from Raidurg Station to the new Airport Metro Raidurg Station will be extended by about 900 meters, thus it would be an integrated four-level station, somewhat similar to JBS Station of metro corridor-2 ( Green line) and Ameerpet interchange station. The extended blue line terminal station and the Airport Metro station is planned as a combined interchange station one over the other. The combined interchange station design is due to space constraints in front of L&T and Aurobindo buildings after IKEA junction. The first two levels will accommodate Airport Metro station and the top two levels will accommodate the extended blue line (Corridor 3) terminal station. File:Raindurg mindspace metro.jpg, Skywalk from Raidurg metro station to Raheja Mindspace campus File:Mindspace underpass Raidurg.jpg, Mindspace underpass near Raidurg metro station

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