Hyderabad:
PM Narendra Modi will dispatch the much-anticipated metro rail in Hyderabad today, taking the inaugural ride alongside Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. The inaugural adventure will be crosswise over four stations, where tight security has been set up. The metro will be available to people in general from Wednesday - brilliant cards have been at a bargain however the end of the week. In its initially stage, the metro will cover a 30-km extend and is relied upon to convey 17 lakh travelers every day. After the introduction, PM Modi will leave for the prominent Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which will be gone to, among others, by Ivanka Trump, the little girl of US President Donald Trump.
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1.The Hyderabad Metro project has been divided into three corridors -- all passing through areas with high population density. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the project, which covers 24 stations.
2.The trains will run from Miyapur in north Hyderabad to Ameerpet - a connecting station - on corridor one, and from there to Nagole in the eastern side of the city, which is part of Corridor 2.
3.Initially, the metro would run from 6 am to 10 pm. It would be rescheduled -- 5.30 am to 11 pm -- depending on traffic and demand, Telangana's Technology Minister K T Rama Rao has said.
4.The price of tickets will range between Rs. 10 and Rs. 60.
5.The operations will start with three coaches -- each of which can accommodate 330 people -- per train. The number of coaches would be increased to six depending on traffic.
6.The elevated metro will have stations located at a distance of approximately one kilometer.
- The metro will eventually include feeder bus services, parking facility at strategic locations and have connectivity with other modes of transport.
8.There are also plans to build sky-walks connecting the stations directly to commercial complexes, stadiums and offices.
- The project, which started in July 2012, was scheduled to be completed by June this year, but issues like land acquisition led to delays.
10.The Hyderabad Metro line will eventually be a 72-km elevated stretch, which will be completed by next year. It is the largest such public-private partnership project, the state government has said.