Pune Metro 100 per cent safe: Maha-Metro officials

As the Maha Metro prepares to launch metro rail services on a 12-km stretch in two sections, it has sought to allay the fears of the general public about the safety of the Pune Metro project. Officials of Maha Metro said the Pune Metro project was “100 per cent safe” and all measures have been taken to ensure no untoward incident takes place during the construction phase and thereafter.

Maha Metro’s assurance comes in the wake of another mishap on Friday when a 27-year-old labourer was killed after a stack of reinforcement steel bars fell on him near Nashik Phata area. Earlier, in 2019, a worker at the Pune Metro site at Mobo’s Hotel on Bund Garden Road was killed after a steel centring plate moved by an overhead crane fell on him.