Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR; Telugu:

) is a rapid transit system, currently

under construction, for the city of Hyderabad, India.[3] It is in Secent Operational model. It is
being implemented entirely on PPP mode, with the state government holding a minority equity
stake.[4]
Contents

1 Awards and nominations

2 Construction Phases
o

2.1 Phase I

3 Six Stage Construction Schedule

4 Phase II

4.1 Initial Bidding

4.2 Re-bidding

4.3 Construction stage

5 Current Status

6 Lines
o

6.1 Line 1 (red): Miyapur L B Nagar

6.2 Line 3 (blue): Nagole - Shilparamam

6.3 Line 2 (green): JBS Falaknuma

7 Cost

8 Infrastructure
o

8.1 Rolling stock

8.2 Ticketing

8.3 Stations

9 Fare structure (2014)

10 See also

11 References

12 External links

Awards and nominations

HMR project was showcased as one of the top 100 strategic global infrastructure projects at the
Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum held in New York during FebruaryMarch, 2013.[5][6]
The HMR project is considered to be the worlds largest project under public-private
partnership[citation needed], with investments of over Rs 17,000 Crore.
Phase-1 of the Project was approved by the Union Government in April 2008 under PublicPrivate Partnership.[7] The total length of the first-phase after final revision is 71 km.
Construction Phases

The construction work will be undertaken in two phases. There are six stages of completion in
Phase I.
Phase I

The Phase I of the project includes 3 lines covering a distance of around 71 km. The metro rail
stretches between Nagole and Mettuguda (8 km) and between Miyapur and S. R. Nagar (12 km)
are targeted to be operational by March 2015 as Ugadi gift.[8][9] In September 2012,

Miyapur L B Nagar - 29.87 km

Nagole - Shilparamam - 26.51 km

JBS Falaknuma - 14.78 km

Six Stage Construction Schedule

Stage

Distance (in
km)

Target Section

Line

Expected Completion
date

Stage
1

Nagole to Mettuguda

Line III 21 March 2015

Stage
2

Miyapur to S R Nagar

11

Line I 15 August 2015

Stage
3

Mettuguda to
Begumpet

10

Line III 14 November 2015

Stage
4

Begumpet to
Shilparamam

9.51

Line III 15 August 2016

Stage
5

SR Nagar to LB Nagar

17.87

Line I 15 August 2016

Stage
6

JBS to Falaknuma

14.78

Line II 5 June 2017

Phase II

The Indian government is thinking for Phase II which is expected to start construction in 2015. It
includes around 80 kilometers.[citation needed] Recently Government has sanctioned second phase of
metro rail extending further 85 km.The proposed routes are as following:

Miyapur - BHEL - Patanchervu 15 km.

Faluknama - Shamshabad Airport 12 km.

LB Nagar - Vanasthalipuram 4 km.

Nagole - LB Nagar - Faluknama 15 km.

JNTU - Shilparamam - Gacchibowli 14 km.

JBS - Alwal 8 km.

Gachibowli - ToliChowk - Lakdikapul 17 km.

TOTAL 85 km (Second Phase). The construction is yet to be started and might start at 2015. The
total Metro rail coverage will be increased to 157 km (Including Second Phase).
Initial Bidding

The bidding process was completed by July 2008 and awarded to Maytas which failed to achieve
financial closure for the project as per schedule By March 2009. In July 2009, the Andhra
Pradesh Government canceled the contract and called for fresh bids for the project.
Re-bidding

In the July-2010 rebidding process, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) emerged as the lowest bidder for the
121.32 billion (US$1.9 billion) project. L&T came forward to take up the work for about 14.58
billion (US$230 million) as viability gap funding as against the sanctioned 48.53 billion
(US$760 million).
Construction stage

Bhoomi Puja(shankusthapana) for the project was conducted on 26 April 2012 [10] the
concessionaire started the pillar erection on the same day for Stage-I and on 6 June 2012 for
Stage-II.[11] The work for Corridor 2 has been delayed due to traders in Koti and Sultan Bazar
demanding realignment of the route to safeguard traders and age old heritage markets.[12]
Current Status

As of March 2014 end The Construction on line 3 is 75% completed with laying of tracks
started,the construction of Nagole depot almost over, overhead traction lines laying started and
on line -1 Construction of pillars maximum completed except at stretches mozam-zahi market to
khirathabad. also viaduct construction is in full swing.
The construction of the entire 71.16 km has been split into 6 stages with the first stage scheduled
to be completed by June 2014[13][14] with the entire project scheduled to be completed by July,
2017.[15][16]
In November 2013,L&T Hyderabad Metro begins laying of rails on the metro viaduct between
Nagole and Mettuguda, a stretch of 8 km.[17] Hyderabad Metro Rail will provide disabledfriendly system.[18][19]

The first train of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) will be coming from Korea during the third
week of May 2014. Stringent trial runs will commence from June 2014 till February 2015, before
the service on the first stage of the Nagole-Mettuguda sector is thrown open to the public on 21
March 2015.[20]
Three interchanges are planned at Mahatma Gandhi Bus Terminus, Parade Grounds and
Ameerpet.[21]
Lines
[show]Hyderabad Metro Phase I
Green Line: Miyapur LB Nagar [29.87 km]
Orange Line: Nagole Shilparamam [26.51 km]
Blue Line: JBS Falaknuma [14.78 km]

Since the first version of the plans, the three corridors mostly remained the same, but minor
changes were introduced. These include the lack of stop at Lalaguda, or a stop at Lakdikapul
instead of Secretariat. Also, the lines have been marked with several different combination of
colours.[22]
Line 1 (red): Miyapur L B Nagar

Route Length 29.87 kilometers

Number of Stations (All elevated) 26
Link to other Corridors

At Ameerpet Connecting Corridors 1 and 2

At Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station Connecting Corridors 1 and 3

S.No

Station

S.No

Station

Miyapur

14

Lakdi-ka-pul

JNTU College

15

Assembly

KPHB Colony

16

Nampally

Kukatpally

17

Gandhi Bhavan(Moazzam Jahi Market)

Moosapet

18

Medical College(Putli Bowli)

Bharatnagar

19

Imlibun(MG Bus Stand)

Erragadda Road

20

Malakapet

ESI Hospital

21

New Market(Super Bazaar)

S.R.Nagar

22

Musarambagh(TV Tower)

10

Ameerpet

23

Dilsukh Nagar

11

Punjagutta

24

Chaitanyapuri(Fruit Market)

12

Erra Manzil

25

Victoria Memorial(Kothapet)

13

Khairatabad

26

L.B. Nagar(Bahadurguda)

Line 3 (blue): Nagole - Shilparamam

Route Length 26.51 km

Number of Stations (All elevated) 23
Link to other Corridors

At Ameerpet Connecting Corridors 3 and 1

At Parade Grounds Connecting Corridors 3 and 2

S.No

Station

S.No

Station

Nagole

13

Begumpet

Uppal

14

Ameerpet

Survey Of India

15

Madhura Nagar

NGRI

16

Yousufguda

Habsiguda

17

Jubilee Hills Road

Tarnaka

18

Jubilee Hills Checkpost

Mettuguda

19

Peddamma Temple

Secunderabad

20

Madhapur PS

Parade Ground

21

Durgam Cheruvu

10

Paradise

22

Hitech City

11

Rasoolpura

23

Cyber Gateway

12

Prakash Nagar

Line 2 (green): JBS Falaknuma

Route Length 14.78 kilometers

Number of Stations (All elevated) 16
Link to other Corridors

At Parade Grounds Connecting Corridors 2 and 3

At Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station Connecting Corridors 1 and 2

Jubilee Bus Station

0.000

0.000

Parade Grounds

0.700

0.700

Secunderabad r.s.

1.000

1.700

Gandhi Hospital

1.246

2.946

Musheerabad

0.641

3.587

R.T.C. Cross Roads

1.330

4.917

Chikkadpally

0.653

5.570

Narayanguda

1.010

6.580

Sultan Bazaar

0.779

7.359

10

M.G. Bus Station

0.826

8.185

11

Salarjung Museum

1.390

9.575

12

Charminar

1.540

11.115

13

Shalibanda

0.717

11.832

14

Shamsherganj

0.951

12.783

15

Jangammet

0.926

13.709

16

Falaknuma

0.474

14.183

Cost

The official estimated cost of the project stands at 14,132 crore (US$Bad rounding
hereFormatting error: invalid input when rounding). The Central Government bears 10% of
it, while L&T bears the remaining 90% of the cost.[15][23] However, construction work was
supposed to commence on 3 March 2011. Since the project has already been delayed by a year,
the interest component has accumulated to 1,825 crores. As a result, the final current cost (as of
March 2012) of the project stands at 15,957 crores.[24]
Infrastructure
Rolling stock

On 12 September 2012, Larsen and Toubro Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd (LTMRHL) announced
that it has awarded tender for supply of rolling stock to Hyundai Rotem.[25][26] The 18 billion
(US$280 million) tender is for 57 trains consisting of 171 cars which will be delivered in phases
at least 9 months before the commencement of each stage.[27][28] On 2 October 2013, LTMRHL
unveils its train car for Hyderabad Metro. A model coach which is half the size of the actual
coach, is on public display at Necklace Road on the banks of Hussain Sagar in the heart of
Hyderabad.[29] The trains will be 3.2m wide and 4m high.[30] There will be 4 doors on each side of
each coach.[30]

On 10 April 2014 the first metro train for HMR rolled out of Hyundai Rotem Factory at
Changwon in South Korea and is scheduled to reach Hyderabad by third week of May 2014.[31]
Ticketing

The L&T Hyderabad project will have an automated ticketing system with features such as
contactless smart card based ticketing, slim automatic gates, payment by cash and credit/debit
card, passenger operated ticket vending machine and provision of common ticketing system. It
will also have a provision of NFC-based technology to enable usage of mobile phones as fare
media and high performance machine to avoid long queues.[32] Samsung Data Systems India, a
subsidiary of Korean firm Samsung, has been awarded the automatic fare collection system
package for the L&T metro rail project. The package involves design, manufacture, supply,
installation, testing and commissioning of the system.[32][33]
Stations

Otis of United States won the contract to supply and maintain 670 elevators.
Fare structure (2014)
Distance (km)

Metro Fare ( )

0-5

9.00

5-6

10.00

6 - 10

12.00

10 - 14

14.00

12 - 15

16.00

15 - 18

17.00

> 18

20.00

See also