Delhi Metro set to launch Driverless Train Operations on Pink Line
Delhi Metro is all set to launch ‘driverless train operations’ on 57-km Pink Line on 25 November
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New Delhi, November 24: Delhi Metro is all set to launch ‘driverless train operations’ on 57-km Pink Line on 25 November. Union minister for housing and urban affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri, and Delhi transport minister Kailash Gahlot will inaugurate it via video-conferencing.
India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line was inaugurated on 28 December last year by PM Modi. He had then asserted that metro train services would be extended to 25 cities by 2025 from the current 18. DMRC officials said the Pink Line, spanning from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar, would also have driverless operations by mid-2021. However, the pandemic had majorly affected operations of Delhi Metro.
The Delhi Metro Monday launched the first prototype of an indigenous Rolling Stock Driver Training System (RSDTS) - a major step towards the indigenisation of technologies involved in operating network.
The DMRC, in association with Bharat Electronics Limited, also demonstrated functioning of a Super Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, which is being developed as a monitoring system for equipment and assets to “rationalise maintenance periodicity, manpower requirement and spares management.”
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Delhi Metro had begun its commercial operation on 25 December 2002 - a day after the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated DMRC’s first stretch which spanned 8.2 km from Shahdara to Tis Hazari, with just 6 stations.