Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will inaugurate the two new Mumbai Metro lines for public operation on the auspicious Maharashtrian New Year Day, Gudi Padva, on April 2, a top official said on Monday.
“The 2 metro lines will be a driverless train operation called BTC, and shall be thrown open by the CM,” MMRDA Metropolitan Commissioner S.V.S Srinivas told IANS this evening.
Almost 8 years after the country’s financial capital got its first east-west Mumbai Metro One corridor, the city will get two more lines – Metro 2A and Metro 7 – which will be partially opened from this Saturday, he said.
Both fully elevated, Metro 2A, running from Dahisar west to D.N. Nagar (Andheri west), and Metro 7 from Dahisar east to Andheri east,