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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.
New Delhi, December 28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that metro train services would 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.
Modi noted that metro service was confined to only five cities in 2014, when his government came to power at the Centre, and said it had continuously been expanded to different cities, a testimony of people s ease of living being ensured by his dispensation.
He said that the central government did not see urbanisation as a challenge but used this as an opportunity and took a swipe at earlier governments, saying they did not address the infrastructure demands of growing cities for decades.
India launches first-ever âdriverless metro trainâ
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By Aminul Islam Mirja
NEW DELHI, Dec 27, 2020 (BSS) âIndia today launched its first-ever driverless fully-automated train on Delhi Metroâs Magenta Line, heralding a new era of comfort travelling and enhanced mobility.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the eco-friendly, sophisticated and driverless train service on Megenta Line (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden) this morning through a videoconferencing.
Apart from this, Modi opened a fully-operational National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) for travel on the Airport Express Line of Delhi Metro.
âWith the achievement of Metro Rail without a driver, our country has joined the select countries of the world where such facilities are availableâ¦the metro today is no longer just a medium of public transport, but a great way to reduce pollution and traffic jam,â the premier said.