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The Hyderabad Metro Rail opened for public today with the passengers describing their first-time travel by it as a "convenient, comfortable and awesome experience". The metro rail commenced its operations between Miyapur and Nagole, having a total distance of 30 kms and 24 stations, the concessionaire, L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd, said in a statement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday inaugurated the first phase of the 72-km elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project at the Miyapur station. After launching the 30-km stretch between Miyapur and Nagole, Modi took a ride on the train on its inaugural run. The trains would run from 6 am to 10 pm initially which would be rescheduled to 5:30 am to 11 pm depending on the traffic and demand, Telangana's Information Technology Minister K T Rama Rao earlier said. A mobile app named 'T Savari' for metro passengers was launched by Modi, who was also given a power-point presentation on the project at Miyapur station. The ...
BS ReporterHyderabad, 23 November: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel on Hyderabad Metro Rail after inaugurating the project during his visit to the city on November 28, state government officials said.Prime Minister Modi is coming here to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who is leading a large contingent of US entrepreneurs for the summit would share the dais with the Prime Minister at the inaugural session on November 28.The project concessionaire, L&T, and Telangana government have made all the arrangements for a grand inauguration of the metro rail, which is by far the most expensive infrastructure project built for Hyderabad city. The state government is putting its best efforts to showcase the city for the international audience on this occasion.The 30 km stretch of the metro rail will become operational on the day of inauguration and while the entire 70 kms of the three-corridor metro project is .
BS ReporterHyderabad, 7 September: Close on the heels of Lucknow's metro rail launch, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao has decided to line up Hyderabad Metro Rail with a partial roll out of its operations towards the end of November, 2017.Chief minister Rao on Thursday addressed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to inaugurate phase one covering 30-km stretch of the 3-corridor Metro Rail project that runs across a total distance of 72 kms.The Rs 16,000-crore elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail, by far the largest project being taken up under the public private participation(PPP) mode, was marred by initial delays, forcing the state government to agree for a 17 month extension upon the expiry of 5-year deadline in July, 2017.The project concessionaire, L&T Metro Rail(Hyderabad) Limited, has readied the track besides securing all the mandatory clearances on three stretches extending to a total length of 30 kms besides completing majority of the work on ...