Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is scheduled to flag off the India’s first ‘driverless’ metro in Delhi on December 28, 2020.
- The first ‘driverless’ train will roll out on the 38-km Line 8 or Magenta Line (Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden) of the Delhi Metro, which has a 390-km-long network spread across the NCR and adjoining cities such as Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Bahadurgarh.
- In driverless mode, trains can be controlled entirely from the three command centres of the DMRC, without any human intervention.
- Delhi Metro had commenced operations between Shahdara and Tis Hazari stations on December 24, 2002 .
- The World’s First Automated Driverless Railway was Opened in Kobe, Japan in 1981.
