The Kanpur Monorail was a proposed

monorail A monorail (from "mono", meaning "one", and " rail") is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurat ...

system for the city of Kanpur.

Lines

There are three lines proposed in phase I are as follows: *From Panki Sector 18 to

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via Govind Puri - Jarib Chauki - Central - Ghantaghar 8 Point - Shuklaganj. Length of this line would be 24.5 km *From Chobepur to Maharajpur via IIT Kanpur - Kalyanpur - Rawatpur - Kanpur Anwarganj -

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. Length of this line would be 28.5 km *From

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via Old Kanpur -

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- Wazid Pur. Length of this line would be 16.0 km Total length of Phase I would be 63.0 km.

Other lines

Other lines which are being proposed in addition to Phase I are: *From Daheli Sujanpur to

Govind Nagar Govind Nagar is a southern neighbourhood of Kanpur named after Govind Vallabh Pant as he inaugurated this locality. It was the largest Vidhan Sabha constituency in Asia until Kidwai Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency was formed. It is surrounded ...

. *From J K Temple to Kidwai Nagar via Kamla Club -

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. *From Gangotri Township to Sahara City via

Green Park Stadium Green Park Stadium is an international standards cricket stadium of Kanpur, India. Its seating capacity is 32,000 seats. It is the home ground of Uttar Pradesh cricket team. This arena is an International Test match venue. Green Park is under ...

- Rave 3 - Old Kanpur - New Kanpur City

Status

Feasibility study has been completed for Phase I corridors. Work was predicted to start after 2016. As of 2021 no work has commenced. In 2016 the State Government approved the rail based

Kanpur Metro The Kanpur Metro is a mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The metro is owned and operated by the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC). The feasibility study for the project was done by RITES in June 2015. ...

, which began construction in 2021. It is not clear if the metro corridors will replace the monorail plans.

References

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