Pune Metro Rail Corporation has readied DPR for the 82.5-km long metro rail route and the report has been submitted to the Pune Municipal Corporation for the final approval from the state and central governments. The metro authorities are also planning to make a 33-km stretch in Phase-I operational by March next year. The 10-km route of the same phase has already been made operational in March and the remaining stretches will gradually be made operational. The DPR for the extended route of 5.9 km from Swargate to Katraj and 4.4 km from PCMC to Nigdi has been submitted to the Union government for final approval. Maha-Metro, which oversees the project, has almost finalized the DPR for the entire 82.5-km route to be developed in Phase-II. They have already submitted the DPR of the 46-km route, estimated to cost ₹12,015 crore, to the PMC.
