As of July 2026, India's operational metro and RRTS network reached 1,159 km across 26 cities, per the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs - up from 248 km i…
Kolkata Metro began commercial service on October 24, 1984, between Esplanade and Bhowanipore - South Asia's first underground rapid-transit railway, eighteen years befo…
Delhi Metro's first Red Line section opened December 24, 2002, under DMRC's strict project-management discipline - becoming the template nearly every later Indian metro…
Namma Metro opened its first stretch on October 20, 2011 - the start of a network that, 15 years on, is still working toward covering the city's tech corridor and airpor…
By 2014, India's entire operational metro network stood at roughly 248 km across five cities, with annual central budget support of Rs 5,798 crore - the fixed baseline e…
MoHUA's 2017 Metro Rail Policy made Transit-Oriented Development, feeder planning and ridership appraisal mandatory for new approvals - a deliberate pivot from 'build th…
On December 28, 2020, Delhi Metro's Magenta Line became India's first fully automated, driverless corridor under Unattended Train Operation - though not every Delhi Metr…
On March 6, 2024, PM Modi inaugurated the East-West Metro's Esplanade-Howrah Maidan stretch, including a 520-metre twin-tunnel section 37 metres beneath the Hooghly Rive…
The complete 82 km Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor, plus the Meerut Metro's shared section, opened for commercial service on February 22, 2026 - India's first fully operation…
MoHUA's Monsoon Session submission put India's operational metro+RRTS network at 1,159 km across 26 cities, with ~886 km under construction and Rs 30,942 crore earmarked…
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