The Kanpur Monorail was a proposed

monorail A monorail is a Rail transport, railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style ...

system for the city of

Kanpur Kanpur (Hindustani language, Hindustani: ), originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the second largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow. It was the primary ...

Lines

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

Shuklaganj Gangaghat is a city and a municipal board in Unnao district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also known as Shuklaganj and is located on the banks of the Ganges about 5 km from Kanpur on the SH 58. The population was 70803 as of ...

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 Kanpur Zoo to

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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 is surrounded by Fazalganj and Pratapganj in the north, Dada Nagar in the west, Bakarganj and Kidwai Nagar in the east, b ...

. *From

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to Kidwai Nagar via Kamla Club –

Govindpuri Govindpuri is a colony in South East Delhi. It is surrounded by Kalkaji, Chittaranjan Park, and Tughlakabad. The Violet Line of the Delhi Metro passes through the area and has a metro station by the name, Govindpuri. Govindpuri is supposed ...

. *From Gangotri Township to Sahara City via

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– Rave 3 – Old Kanpur – New Kanpur City

Status

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

Kanpur Metro The Kanpur Metro is a Rapid transit, mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The metro is owned and operated by the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) and it partially opened within two years of construction ma ...

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

References

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