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New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal attended the inauguration programme of India’s first driverless practice on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line & the launch of totally operational National Common Mobility Card on the Airport Express Line, by way of video conferencing.
After beginning driverless providers on the 37-kilometre lengthy Magenta Line (Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden), one other main hall of the Delhi Metro, the 57-kilometre lengthy Pink Line (Majlis Park – Shiv Vihar) will even have driverless operations by the mid of 2021, it mentioned.
After this, Delhi Metro may have a driverless community size of about 94 kilometres, which can be roughly 9 per cent of the world’s whole driverless metro community.
The National Common Mobility Card, which can be totally operationalised on the Airport Express Line will even be a serious milestone as anybody carrying a RuPay -Debit Card issued lately within the final 18 months by 23 banks (all these are NCMC compliant as per instructions of the Department of Financial Services, Government of India) from any a part of the nation will be capable to journey on the Airport Express line utilizing that card.
The identical facility will turn out to be out there on your complete Delhi Metro community by 2022.
The Delhi Metro presently operates on a community of about 390 kilometres with 285 stations spanning 11 corridors (together with Noida-Greater Noida).Pre-Covid, about 60 lakh journeys had been being carried out day-after-day on the Delhi Metro community making it the mass transportation spine of the National Capital Region (NCR).
According to the discharge, in 2014, solely 248 kilometres of Metro traces had been operational in 5 cities, presently 702 kilometres of Metro traces are operational in 18 cities in India.
“In the days to come, over a thousand kilometres of new lines shall be added and about 27 cities in the country will have Metro connectivity. By 2022, when the nation celebrates its 75th Independence Day, India will have a combined Metro network of over a thousand kilometres which will carry more than a crore passengers every day,” it mentioned.
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