Greater Noida West Metro: Cabinet Clears Rs 2,390 Crore Aqua Line Link

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the Greater Noida West metro link: an 8.449 km elevated extension of the Noida Metro Aqua Line from Noida Sector 51 to Greater Noida Sector 4, with five stations, at an estimated Rs 2,390 crore. Nothing has been tendered yet. For piling, crane and concrete fleets in western Uttar Pradesh, this is the next metro civil package in the pipeline, and it follows the August award of the two other Aqua Line extensions to L&T.

What the Cabinet cleared

The government’s release, carried in full by DD India and also by Ommcom News, gives the length, the five elevated stations and the Sector 61 interchange, but no cost or completion date. The Rs 2,390 crore figure comes from the PTI report carried by Upstox and The Tribune. It also matches the Cabinet’s day total: Zee Business itemised Wednesday’s other four decisions at Rs 3,230 crore, Rs 62,370 crore, Rs 5,000 crore and Rs 4,111 crore, and those subtract from the Rs 77,101 crore headline to leave exactly Rs 2,390 crore. Earlier state plans carried this line further, to Knowledge Park V. This approval covers only the stretch to Sector 4.

Does this change what a contractor should buy?

An all-elevated line answers the fleet question early. There is no tunnelling here. Eight and a half kilometres of viaduct and five stations mean bored cast-in-situ piles under every pier, so hydraulic rotary piling rigs open the job. Crawler cranes follow for reinforcement cages, pier caps and girder handling. A casting yard runs batching plants, transit mixers and concrete boom pumps for most of the build. Around the piers, mid-size excavators, backhoe loaders and tippers handle pile caps, drainage and utility shifting, not mass earthwork.

The rate is the interesting number. The Sector 142 to Botanical Garden extension, cleared in February, was sanctioned at Rs 2,254 crore for 11.56 km, about Rs 195 crore per km. This corridor works out around 45 per cent dearer per km. The release does not explain the gap, so read nothing firm into it yet. What it does tell a sub-hirer is that more money per km goes into structures and stations, which are crane-hours and concrete, not earthwork.

Plan on the main contractor bringing its own core fleet. On the two sister extensions, L&T took the viaduct and stations package at Rs 1,234 crore and owns most of its heavy plant. Open hire usually sits in sub-let piling, the casting yard, utility diversion along a busy road corridor, and ready-mix supply. A second metro job starting near Gaur City would compete with L&T’s sites for the same piling crews, cranes and low-beds in the same district, which tends to firm hire rates before it adds machines.

Delhi-NCR also loses working weeks each winter to construction curbs on bad air days. Price utilisation on the months a site can actually run, not twelve.

FAQ

What did the Cabinet approve for the Greater Noida West metro?

On 11 November 2026 it approved an 8.449 km elevated Aqua Line extension from Noida Sector 51 to Greater Noida Sector 4, with five stations and an interchange with the Blue Line at Noida Sector 61.

How much will the Aqua Line extension to Greater Noida Sector 4 cost?

The estimated cost is Rs 2,390 crore, as reported by PTI. That figure also ties to the Cabinet’s Rs 77,101 crore total for the day.

Has a contractor been chosen?

No. The Cabinet approval comes before tendering. No civil contractor has been named for this corridor.

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Source: Upstox