The Ghaziabad Development Authority has come up with a plan for the Metro to reach out to far-flung areas of the district. But the plan for the Metro is yet to be approved by the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh governments.

Other plans include seven multi-level parking slots, 38-kilometre long elevated roads and three Integrated Rail-cum-Bus Transit links for better connection of the city with the rest of the National Capital Region.

GDA officials said if everything goes as per plan, the city will have state-of-the art transport system by 2012. The Metro plan includes five routes stretching to about 40 kilometre that will cost close Rs 4,400 crore.

"The Metro routes are yet to be approved but we are hoping that they will be approved after we make presentations to the state government. Our plans for the multi-level parkings and requests for railway routes will go ahead irrespective of whether the Metro routes are approved or not," GDA Vice-Chairman S K Dwivedi said.

However, DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said, "We will be considering the extension of the Metro routes only when we receive formal requests from the UP government."

GDA plans to construct seven new multi-level parkings at the cost of Rs 1,450 crore which will be able to accommodate close to 2,900 vehicles everyday.

The proposed routes for the Integrated Rail-cum-Bus Transit rail links from the Capital to other areas in the NCR will also connect the city better with close to 63 kilometre of new railway routes.