UTTAR PRADESH MERO RAIL CORPORATION
UTTAR PRADESH MERO RAIL CORPORATION Uttar Pradesh Rail Corporation (UPMRC) is a joint venture company, which operates the Lucknow Metro and Kanpur Metro. The other metro projects like Agra Metro, Meerut Metro, Varanasi Metro, Allahabad Metro, Gorakhpur Metro and Jhansi Metro, in the State of Uttar Pradesh are also under the ambit of UPMRC. LMRC was formed as a Special Purpose Vehicle by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 2013 to build and operate Lucknow Metro. In 2017, the Lucknow Metro was inaugurated and opened to the public and in 2021, the Kanpur Metro was opened. Kanpur Metro was the fastest built and commissioned metro system in the world built in 24 months. Its emblem was designed by Pooja Yadav in brown using alphabet ‘M’, connectivity grid and historical Rumi Darwaza and the text below uses Gotham Bold and Gotham Book in grey.