Prime Minister Narendra Modi today will inaugurate India’s first-ever fully-automated driverless train service. The prime minister will also launch fully operational National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) services on the Airport Express Line.

According to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC),  the inauguration will be held via video conferencing at 11 am on Monday. The driverless metro train will run on the 37-km Magenta Line, connecting Janakpuri West and Botanical Garden.  With the start of these new-generation trains, the DMRC will enter the elite league of "7 percent of world's Metro networks" which can operate services without drivers.

It also informed that by mid-2021, another major corridor of the Delhi Metro--57 km Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) will also have driverless operations.

Once the driverless trains are operationalised on the Pink Link too, the Delhi Metro will have a driverless network length of about 94 km which will be approximately 9 percent of the world's total driverless metro network, DMRC added.

The driverless train will have six coaches along with several advanced features. Delhi Metro's current operational network spans about 390 km with 285 stations across 11 corridors (including NOIDA Greater NOIDA line). On regular days, the average daily ridership of the Delhi Metro is over 26 lakh.

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