First Metro train by April-end.

The first Metro train is expected to arrive in the city by April-end or early May and the trial runs are likely to be done initially inside the Uppal depot, announced L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) Chief Executive and Managing Director V.B. Gadgil recently.

Track work of about seven kilometres or 80 per cent has been completed in the Uppal depot while track work is also going on at a rapid pace atop the viaduct between Nagole and Mettuguda with 80 per cent work completed on the 8-km stretch.

Construction of stations too is in progress on the stretch as also traction lines. Once completed, the trial runs of the Metro train will also be done on this stage which will also be the first one to become operational from among the three corridor 72-km metro line being built under the public, private partnership mode.

THE HINDU