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The driverless trains of Delhi Metro will offer more reliability due to reduced human intervention
They are equipped with hi-tech cameras and obstruction sensing devices to ensure the safety of passengers
India s first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro s Magenta Line was on Monday inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi.
New Delhi: The driverless trains of Delhi Metro will offer more reliability due to reduced human intervention, and are equipped with hi-tech cameras and obstruction sensing devices to ensure the safety of passengers, officials said on Monday. India s first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro s Magenta Line was on Monday inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
PM inaugurates first-ever driverless train
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line along with the fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line via video conferencing, in New Delhi.
NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Inaugurating India’s first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government unlike its predecessors has taken growing urbanisation as an opportunity and asserted that metro train services will be extended to 25 cities by 2025 from the current 18.
In his addresss via video-conferencing, he said the launch of the driverless train and start of the National Common Mobility Card, also inauguarated by him on Monday, at the Airport Express Line of the Delhi Metro are an attempt to make urban development future ready.
Modi inaugurates India’s first-ever driverless train in New Delhi
29 Dec 2020 Flowers adorn the front of India’s first driverless metro train at a metro station during its inauguration in New Delhi. AFP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line, along with the fully operational National Common Mobility Card service, and said that India will have the metro service in more than 25 cities by 2025, as against in 18 cities currently.
The fully automated driverless train will run on the 37-kilometre long Magenta Line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden. It will eliminate the possibility of human error. After the start of driverless services on the Magenta Line, the Pink Line of the Delhi Metro is expected to have driverless operations by the mid of 2021.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s first fully-automated train service on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line on December 28 via video conference.
Commercial operations of the new-generation driverless metro rakes will commence shortly after the prime minister inaugurates the service, according to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be flagging off the country s first ever fully-automated driverless train service on the 37 kilometre-Magenta Line (Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden) and will also be launching the fully operational National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) for travel on the 23-km Airport Express Line (New Delhi to Dwa
Launching driverless train, PM hails move to ‘smart systems’
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and DMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh were also at the virtual inauguration. Updated: December 29, 2020 1:19:19 am
PM Modi flagged off the train through a virtual event.
The Delhi Metro’s driverless train, the first of its kind in the country, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conference at 11 am on Monday.
“I had the privilege of inaugurating the Magenta Line about three years ago. Today, on the same route, I have the opportunity of inaugurating the country’s first fully automated Metro, which we call ‘Driverless Metro’. This shows how fast India is moving towards smart systems. Today, the National Common Mobility Card is also being added by Delhi Metro. It started in Ahmedabad last year. Starting today, it will include the Airport Express Line of Delhi Metro,” he said.