September 1, 2023: India currently has an operational metro network spanning 872 kilometre (km), spread across 20 cities, housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on August 31.
Among the 20 cities in the country that have an operational metro network are Delhi and seven cities in the national capital region, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Nagpur, Kanpur and Pune. Cumulatively, these networks have an average daily ridership of 85 lakh, Puri informed.
Speaking at a book-launch function in New Delhi, the minister said that India would become the world’s second-largest metro network system when work on about 988 km of under-construction metro rail projects gets completed.
Metro networks are in various stages of development in various cities across the country including Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Pune, Kanpur, Agra, Bhopal, Indore, Patna, Surat and Meerut. It also includes the ongoing construction work for the Delhi-Meerut RRTS.
Data submitted by the government in the Lok Sabha show that a total of about 229 km of metro rail network was operational in the cities of Delhi-NCR (194 km), Kolkata (28 km) and Bangalore (7 km) till December 2013. Since 2014, a total of about 872 kms of metro rail network has been built/operationalised in the country.
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