SAIL supplies 20,000 tonnes of steel for Lucknow Metro Rail Project

KOLKATA: Steel Authority of India Ltd ( SAIL) has supplied around 20,000 tonnes of steel for Lucknow Metro Rail Project, with the first phase of the project scheduled to be inaugurated on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

SAIL said it has supplied reinforcement bars, structural steel and plates for a 8.5-km long priority stretch of the North-South Corridor of Lucknow Metro Rail which will operate in between Transport Nagar and Lucknow Charbagh Railway station and is ready to supply for the remaining stretch.

On an overall basis, the state-owned steel company said it has supplied more than 3 lakh tonnes of steel for various metro construction projects across the country, including the upcoming ones.

Incidentally, Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation ( LMRC) project is presently in two phases, of which the Phase I comprises of 22.8 km long North-South Corridor and an 11 km long Phase II forming the East-West Corridor.