The commissioner of metro railway safety (CMRS), Shailesh Kumar Pathak has scheduled a visit to Pune in December to inspect The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s (Maha Metro) Pune metro project. The final inspection of the two priority stretches- Vanaz to Garware college and Pimpri-Chinchwad to Dapodi will be done before the commencement of the commercial operation, said officials.
Atul Gadgil, director, Maha Metro said, “The commissioner and his team will visit Pune for the final inspection the two priority stretches. The two-day visit is scheduled to take place in the third week of December. Post the inspection, the CMRS will give us a final certification for commercial operations, which we intend to begin soon. We are conducting frequent trial runS on these two stretches before its inaugural.”
In July, Maha-Metro completed a technical trial run on the Vanaz to Garware College stretch. Before that, Maha-Metro had extended the trial run on the 6km PCMC station to Phugewadi stretch to first week of January.
