Anand Vardhan, ACEO of Greater Noida Authority, took over as Executive Director of Noida Metro Rail Corporation on 21 November 2022. Immediately after taking charge, he met with his subordinates and gathered information about the operation of the current subway route and proposed subway lines.

On 17 November, Ritu Maheshwari, CEO of Noida-Greater Noida Authority and Managing Director of Noida Metro Rail Corporation handed over the leadership of Executive Director of Noida Metro Rail Corporation to 2017 batch IAS officer and ACEO of Greater Noida Authority, Anand Vardhan . As a result, Anand Vardhan took charge as the new Executive Director at the NMRC office in Noida on 21 November.

Shortly after taking charge, the new Executive Director held a meeting with his subordinate officers from NMRC to inquire about the operation of the existing route from Sector 51, Noida, to Depot Station, Greater Noida. He also inquired about the proposed routes from Noida's Sector 52 to Knowledge Park Five, Botanical Garden to Sector 142, and Greater Noida's Depot Station to Bodaki. The new Executive Director instructed his staff to work diligently on all three proposed routes. The detailed project report of the proposed subway project from Sector 52 to Knowledge Park Five in Noida has already been prepared and is awaiting approval from the Ministry of Finance (Govt. of India), while the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the route from Depot to Bodaki and the Botanical Garden to Sector 142 is completed.

Anand Vardhan has said that these three proposed routes will be given priority. NMRC MDs OSD VPS Komar, Chief Operating Officer RK Saxena, GM Technical Manoj Bajpai, GM Personnel & Finance Pankaj Malhotra and GM Project Pankaj Kumar were present as they took charge.