NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate India’s first driverless train operations in the Delhi MetroMagenta Line (Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden), as well as the services of the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) in full operation on the Airport Express Line by videoconference on December 28 at 11 am.
“With the start of driverless trains on the Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line, DMRC will enter the elite league of seven percent of the world’s Metro networks that can operate without drivers,” said a Delhi Metro Rail spokesperson. Corporation (DMRC).
After initiating driverless services on the 37-kilometer-long Magenta Line (Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden), another major corridor of the Delhi Metro, the 59-kilometer-long Pink Line (Majlis Park – Shiv Vihar) will also have operations Driverless mid-2021. After this, the Delhi metro will have a driverless network length of about 95 kilometers, which will be about nine percent of the world’s total driverless metro network.
“Driverless trains will be fully automated, which will require minimal human intervention and eliminate the chances of human error,” he said.
The National Common Mobility Card, which will be fully operational on the Airport Express Line, will allow anyone carrying a RuPay debit card, recently issued in the last 18 months by 23 banks (all of these comply with NCMC according to the instructions of the Department de Finanzas Services, Government of India) from anywhere in the country, to travel on the Airport Express line with that card. The same facility will be available across the Delhi metro network by 2022, it said.
The Delhi Metro currently operates on a network of about 390 kilometers with 285 stations spanning 11 corridors (including Noida-Greater Noida).
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