GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to include Mohan Nagar as the seventh station on the Electronic City-Sahibabad route . DMRC has been told to prepare a fresh detailed project report (DPR) in 10 days and submit it to the agency.In a meeting on Saturday, GDA officials were learnt to have told DMRC representatives that if the Elecrtonic City-Sahibabad route was extended up to Mohan Nagar, it would give seamless connectivity to passengers to Delhi. Much of Mohan Nagar station has already been developed as it also the eight station on the Dilshad Garden-New Bus Stand route.“If the Mohan Nagar metro station is included Electronic City route, it will give direct access to Delhi and Faridabad-bound commuters from the Dilshad Garden-New Bus Stand route,” said Kanchan Verma, GDA vice-chairperson.“We have asked the DMRC to rework the DPR for theElectronic City-Sahibabad line to accommodate Mohan Nagar as the last station,” said Verma. “This means, we will have six stations instead of five after Electronic City. The distance on this line will also increase from 5.11km. Accordingly, a fresh DPR needs to be prepared, which will be sent to the state government for approval soon,” she added.The stations on this corridor that had been planned according to the initial DPR were Electronic City, Vaibhav Khand, Indirapuram, Shakti Khand, Vasundhara Sector 5 and Sahibabad. The earlier DPR had estimated the project cost to be Rs 1,886 crore, which is bound to go up with the inclusion of the stretch between Sahibabad and Mohan Nagar.Over the past few days, the GDA has held a series of meetings with DMRC on how the Phase 3 metro corridor will work out. While the GDA had initially planned to take up the Electronic City-Sahibabad route ahead of the one between Vaishali and Mohan Nagar, it later said it could start work simultaneously on both projects.It now seems that after a series of deliberations with DMRC, the development agency has finally made up its mind to start work on the Noida Electronic City-Sahibabad metro line.The GDA had earlier worked out modalities for fund distribution for the Electronic City corridor. According to the plan, the Centre and UP government were to contribute Rs 335 crore each, the GDA Rs 572 crore, UP Housing Board Rs 365 crore, GMC Rs 207 crore and UPSIDC Rs 73 crore.But with plans to add Mohan Nagar as the seventh station on the route, the cost is bound to go up, raising concerns if stakeholders will agree to the hike in share.“We had already worked out the sharing of funds among stakeholders for the metro project. Under the scheme of things, the GDA was supposed to contribute Rs 572 crore. But now, the funding pattern will have to be worked out afresh as Mohan Nagar may now be included as the last station,” said a GDA official.“The reworked DPR, which we expect the DMRC to submit in 10 days, will have to include the share of each stakeholder. It will then be sent to the state government for approval.”

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