Modi to inaugurate country’s first-ever driverless train ops
New Delhi: 28.12.2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s first ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden) as well as the fully operational National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) services on the Airport Express Line, via videoconferencing, on Monday at 11am.
“With the commencement of driverless trains on Magenta Line, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will enter the elite league of 7% of world’s Metro networks, which can operate without drivers,” a DMRC spokesperson said.
After starting driverless services on the 37km-long Magenta Line, another major corridor of Delhi Metro, the 57kmlong Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) will also have driverless operations by mid-2021. After this, DMRC will have a driverless network length of about 94 kilometres, which will be approximately 9% of world’s total driverless Metro network.
The common mobility card, which will be fully operationalised on the Airport Express Line, will allow anyone carrying a RuPay-Debit card issued recently in the last 18 months by 23 banks. The same facility will become available on the entire Delhi Metro network by 2022, he said. TNN
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