Nagpur / Modi to launch Metro’s Aqua line today through video conferencing
Nagpur. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Metro’s Aqua line in Nagpur through video conference. Its foundation stone was laid by the Prime Minister in the year 2014. Earlier Modi has launched Orange Line Metro.
Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Singh Puri will flag it off in Nagpur. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will also attend the event through video conferencing. Apart from this, many ministers will also be present, including Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, Energy Minister Nitin Raut. The inauguration ceremony will take place at Subhash Nagar Metro station located on Hingna Marg. There will be a metro journey from Wardha Marg to Hingna for 30 rupees.
According to the Mumbai Rail Metro Corporation (MMRC), the first phase of the Aqua Line will have a total of 6 metro stations in a distance of 11 km from Lokmanya Nagar to Sitabaldi.
Operation of Metro in 660 km in 12 cities of the country
The Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) is currently operating the metro in 660 kilometers of 12 cities of the country. The country’s first metro was started in 1984 in Kolkata. During that time it was operated by the Indian Railways. After Kolkata, Delhi Metro was launched.
At present, the metro is being operated in these 12 cities of the country…
- Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
- Mumbai: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC)
- Bengaluru: Namma Metro
- Hyderabad: Hyderabad Metro Rail
- Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL)
- Kochi: Kochi Metro Rail Limited
- Jaipur: Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (JMRC)
- Kolkata: Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRC)
- Lucknow: Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC)
- Noida: Noida Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRC)
- Gurgaon: Rapid Metro Gurgaon
- Nagpur: Nagpur Metro Rail
- Apart from this, metro construction work is going on fast for 500 kilometers in these 15 cities.
- Ahmedabad: Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited
- Pune: Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority
- Indore: Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation
- Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation
- Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation
- Kozhikode: Kerala Rapid Transit Corporation Limited
- Vijayawada: Amravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC)
- Meerut: Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation
- Visakhapatnam: Amravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC)
- Kanpur: Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation
- Agra: Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation
- Coimbatore: Chennai Metro Rail Limited
- Patna: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
- Navi Mumbai: City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO)
- Guwahati: Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority
