East-West Corridor (Ahmedabad Metro)

East-West Corridor
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Ahmedabad
Termini	Thaltej Gam Vastral Gam
Stations	18 6 (operational)
Service
Type	Rapid Transit
System	Ahmedabad Metro
Operator(s)	Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited
Rolling stock	Hyundai Rotem
History
Opened	4 March 2019
Technical
Line length	21.16 km
Character	Elevated & Underground
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) (Standard gauge)
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz AC Overhead catenary
Route map Template:Ahmedabad Metro East-West Corridor Route

The East-West Corridor of the Ahmedabad Metro is a metro route of mass rapid transit system in Ahmedabad, India. It consists of 18 metro stations from Thaltej Gam to Vastral Gam with a total distance of 21.16 km (13.15 mi). Most of the line is elevated.

This corridor will connect Vastral Gam to Thaltej Gam and will be passing through Nirant Cross Road, Vastral, Rabari Colony, Amraiwadi, Apparel Park, Kankaria East, Kalupur Railway Station, Ghee Kanta, Shahpur, Old High Court, Stadium, Commerce Six Road, Gujarat University, Gurukul Road, Doordarshan Kendra, Thaltej stations.

In the East-West corridor, approximately 6.5 km is the underground section with 4 underground stations and the rest is the elevated section with 13 elevated stations. Old High Court station will be an interchange station for both the corridors.

Partial commercial operation of Phase-1 from Vastral Gam to Apparel Park on blue line was inaugurated on 4 March 2019 by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi along with Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani & Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat Nitinbhai Patel.

List of stations

Following is a list of stations on this route-

East-West Corridor
#	Station Name		Opened	Connections	Layout
	English	Gujarati
1	Thaltej Gam	થલતેજ ગામ	Under Construction	None	Elevated
2	Thaltej	થલતેજ	Under Construction	None	Elevated
3	Doordarshan Kendra	દૂરદર્શન કેન્દ્ર	Under Construction	None	Elevated
4	Gurukul Road	ગુરુકુળ રોડ	Under Construction	None	Elevated
5	Gujarat University	ગુજરાત યુનિવર્સિટી	Under Construction	None	Elevated
6	Commerce Six Road	કોમર્સ છ રસ્તા	Under Construction	None	Elevated
7	Stadium (Ahmedabad)	સ્ટેડિયમ	Under Construction	None	Elevated
8	Old High Court	જૂની હાઇ કોર્ટ	Under Construction	North-South Corridor	Elevated
9	Shahpur	શાહપુર	Under Construction	None	Underground
10	Gheekanta	ઘીકાંટા	Under Construction	None	Underground
11	Kalupur Railway Station	કાલુપુર રેલ્વે સ્ટેશન	Under Construction	None	Underground
12	Kankaria East	કાંકરિયા પૂર્વ	Under Construction	None	Underground
13	Apparel Park	એપેરલ પાર્ક	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated
14	Amraiwadi	અમરાઈવાડી	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated
15	Rabari Colony	રબારી કોલોની	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated
16	Vastral	વસ્ત્રાલ	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated
17	Nirant Cross Road	નિરાંત ક્રોસ રોડ	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated
18	Vastral Gam	વસ્ત્રાલ ગામ	March 4, 2019	None	Elevated

Construction

The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Limited has divided the construction work of the 20.73 km long East-West Corridor of Ahmedabad Metro into multiple construction packages.

The list of contractors is as follows:

Sr. No	Package	No. of Stations	Contractor
1.	Vastral Gam – Apparel Park	Viaduct only	J. Kumar Infraprojects
2.	Vastral Gam – Apparel Park	6	DRA Infracon-CICO JV
3.	Apparel Park Depot	Depot only	URC Construction
4.	Kalupur – West Ramp	2	Larsen and Toubro
5.	Thaltej – Thaltej Gam	2	DRA Infracon
6.	East Ramp – Kalupur	2	Afcons Infrastructure