Noida – Greater Noida metro stations to have art corners with NGO assistance

The Noida-Greater Noida Metro (Aqua Line) is scheduled to be opened for public by October as final trial is taking place over the entire 29.8km Metro link. This link will be connecting Noida sector 71 to Delta 1 metro station in Greater Noida.

The entire route metro stations as well as metro coaches itself will be equipped with all the latest facility. NMRC also had focused a lot over the beautification of stations making the entire structure more pleasing to commuter’s eyes.

For this NMRC will collaborate with Shiv Nadar Foundation and along with another NGO that will work over for beautification of stations. As per the agreement, NMRC will incur no cost on the project and both the NGO will beautify the designated portions of NMRC stations. Beautification of the station will include artistic design, wall paintings, sculptures, art etc.

Earlier also NMRC had conducted a bid for Co-branding of stations to generate revenue. Under this NMRC has invited bids from companies to sell naming rights of all 21 stations for a period of 10 years. The proposal received good response and the winning bids will be finalized soon.

Apart from this all ths stations falling over this route will also have unique facility like multi nodal traffic integration plan. According to this plan designated spaces for parking of buses, taxis, e-rickshaws and even a vendor zone at all stations will be provided. A City One card will also be issued to commuters. This is a multi-wallet card applicable in the metro, parking area, buses and even for payment of Noida and Greater Noida utility services. SBI will be given responsibility for this card.

Later in the future fast trains between stations were also proposed depending on footfall over stations. A 10 megawatt of solar power plant is also expected over the corridor that will generate 10 megawatt of electricity. Surplus power will be sent to grid that will also help in minimizing running costs of stations.