Nagpur Metro will open the Lokmanya Nagar-Sitabuldi segment on January 28th.
Nagpur, India : The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha Metro) today announced that the Metro train service between the Lokmanya Nagar-Sitabuldi Interchange portion of the Aqua Line will be scheduled for 10.15 a.m. on 28 January 2020.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (via video link) and Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation, Commerce & Industry Hardeep Singh Puri will be launching the first metro train via video link. Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Nitin Gadkari; Secretary for Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Durga Shankar Mishra; Minister for Urban Development and Public Works (Public Enterprise), Eknath Shinde; Home Secretary, Anil Deshmukh; Minister for Power & District Guardian, Dr Nitin Raut; Animal Husbandry, Dairy D.
The Aqua Line runs from Prajapati Nagar to Lokmanya Nagar on the east-west corridor of the Nagpur Metro Rail network. The Lokmanya Nagar-Sitabuldi Interchange section of Reach III will cover a distance of 11 km with 6 metro stations. The stations to be opened to the public are Lokmanya Nagar, Bansi Nagar, Vasudev Nagar, Rachana Ring Road, Subhash Nagar, Ambazari Lake View, LAD Square, Shankar Nagar, Institute of Engineers, Jhansi Rani Square and Sitabuldi Interchange. The Commissioner for Railway Safety (CMRS) has already given a safety certificate for commercial operations for this period of time.
This section will connect academic institutions, industrial areas and other high-density residential colonies. Dr Brijesh Dixit, Managing Director of Maha Metro, urged people to attend the event in large numbers.
13.5 km out of 22.29 km of the North-South Corridor (Orange Line) opened to the public in March last year. Metro trains operate on 11 metro stations between Sitabulldi Interchange and Kahpari.
