Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation shall collaborate and work together to develop plans for the phase II expansion of Hyderabad metro rail network.

Apart from exploring different options to raise financial resources to fund Metro Rail expansion, they have decided to consider other modes of public transport.

Following the advice of Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao, both the metros agreed to work on development plans for Hyderabad Metro Rail phase-II expansion.

NVS Reddy, Managing Director of HMRL and Mangu Singh, Managing Director of DMRC along with their engineers and transportation planners inspected different routes of Hyderabad city which have potential for being covered in Metro phase-II expansion.

During a meeting at the Metro Rail Bhavan, they discussed potential Metro Rail phase-II corridors, plugging the gaps in Metro Rail phase-I planned by the earlier Government and linking corridor-I and corridor-III with extension of Metro corridor-III by about 5 km from Nagole to LB Nagar station of corridor-I and extending corridor-III to Shamshabad International Airport from Raidurg.

They will also consider various aspects of intermodal integration between Metro stations, Railway terminals, Bus terminals and other modes of transport.

They will take up techno-economic feasibility of extending corridor-I (Miyapur-LB Nagar) on both sides towards Patancheru and Hayathnagar and beyond so that the inner city Metro link is connected to ORR (outer ring road) and the future townships in the growth corridor.

During the meeting, the MDs of HMRL and DMRC arrived at a broad understanding to work on the directives of the Chief Minister and come up with a plan in the next few months.

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