Lucknow Metro gets over Rs 3,500 crore loan from European Investment Bank
The agreement was signed in Brussels in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Lucknow Metro will get a loan of 450 million Euros (Rs 3,502 crore) from European Investment Bank (EIB) for its Phase-1A project.
"An agreement in this regard was signed in Brussels on March 30, 2016 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Belgium capital," an official release said on Friday.
The loan amount will be released in two tranches of 200 million Euros and 250 million Euros, it added.
The loan agreement was signed by the Indian Ambassador to Belgium Manjiv Singh Puri and Vice-President of European Investment Bank Jonathan Taylor.
The 22.878-km long Lucknow Metro Phase-1A project was approved by the government in December last year at a cost of Rs 6,928 crore on 50:50 equity funding by the central and state governments.