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- ↑ http://www.niua.org/projects/tpt/introduction.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- 1 2 Sujay Mehdudia (21 January 2010). "The Hindu : Cities / Kanpur : Kanpur likely to get monorail". Chennai, India: Beta.thehindu.com. Retrieved 11 August 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
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