Maha-Metro starts track laying work on underground metro tunnel
The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro) has started laying tracks in the underground metro tunnel and installing electric lines and a signal system simultaneously. The underground stretch starts from Range Hills and ends at Swargate. The work is expected to be completed in the next few months and later it will conduct a test drive of the underground stretch. The underground stretch is on the first line between Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and Swargate. The total length of the underground stretch from Range Hills to Swargate is 6 km wherein a total of five stations are proposed to be constructed, which is at Shivajinagar, Civil Court, Budhwar peth, Mandai and Swargate.
