Hyderabad Metro Launch: PM Modi Opens Much-Awaited Rail Project

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the much-awaited Hyderabad Metro today at the Miyapur station.

The commercial operations for the 30-km-long first phase of the metro rail project between Miyapur and Nagole, having 24 stations, will start on Wednesday. After the launch, PM Modi travelled by the metro from Miyapur to Kukatpally along with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, and they will return to the Miyapur station, PTI reported.

Initially, the trains would run from 6 am to 10 pm and the timings 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 was quoted as saying by PTI.

Here are the highlights of the Hyderabad Metro launch.

PM Modi is taking the metro ride from Miyapur to Kukatpally. He is taking the metro ride along with Chief Minister Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

PM Modi watched a presentation on the Hyderabad Metro Rail project at the Miyapur station where the project is being inaugurated

PM Narendra Modi has reached the inauguration site to launch the Hyderabad Metro Rail project.

PM Narendra Modi has arrived in Hyderabad to launch the Hyderabad Metro Rail project. He will also inaugurate the Global Entrepreneurship Summit with Ivanka Trump. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao received PM Modi at the airport.