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Updated Dec 28, 2020, 12:39 pm IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line
PM Modi inaugurates India s first-ever driverless train operations
New Delhi: 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 on the Airport Express Line via video conferencing.
The driverless trains will be fully automated, which will eliminate the possibility of human error, the government has said, adding that after the start of driverless services on the Magenta Line (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden), the Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) of Delhi Metro is expected to have driverless operations by mid-2021.
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He launched it on the Airport Express Line.
PM Modi said that the launch of this service will further India s development.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) services on the Airport Express Line and said that the launch of this service will further India s development.
The prime minister said that the time has come for a unified technological interface to be used across services in order bring all-roun development in the country. Speaking at the launch of the NCMC services on the Airport Express Line, PM Modi said that the launch of this service is one such interface.
PM inaugurates India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line
Modi said that with the driverless metro trains, India has become one of the few countries in the world, where such service is available.
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PM Modi inaugurates India s first driverless train on Delhi Metro s Magenta line. (Photo | Twitter/ANI) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that metro train services will be extended to 25 cities with an over 1,700-km network by 2025 in the country as he flagged off India s first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro s Magenta Line.
‘Feels like previous rides as train is running quite smoothly’
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Fully automated driverless trains to be extended to the Pink Line by June 2021
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The first automated driverless metro train on the Magenta Line during the inaugural run from Jasola Vihar-Shaheen Bagh to Janakpuri West, in Delhi on Monday.
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Fully automated driverless trains to be extended to the Pink Line by June 2021
Driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro’s 37 km-long Magenta Line began on Monday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first train, via videoconferencing, from the Jasola Vihar-Shaheen Bagh metro station.
PM Modi to inaugurate India s first-ever driverless train operations in Delhi today
The trials of DMRC s new driverless trains were started in December 2017.
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Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 06:38 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro on Monday. The operation will start on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line (Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden). With the commencement of driverless trains on the Delhi Metro s Magenta Line, DMRC will enter the elite league of seven percent of world s Metro networks which can operate without drivers. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) stated. These innovations will herald a new era of travelling comfort and enhanced mobility, the Prime Minister s Office stated.