page_title: Hyderabad Metro
section_title: Construction milestones
hierarchical_section_title: Hyderabad Metro / History / Construction milestones
caption_attribution_description: English: Hitecmetro
context_page_description: The Hyderabad Metro is a rapid transit system, serving the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is the second longest operational metro network in India after the Delhi Metro with 57 stations and the lines are arranged in a secant model. It is being funded by a Public Private Partnership, with the state government holding a minority equity stake. A special purpose vehicle company, L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd was established by the construction company L&T to develop Hyderabad metro rail project under Public Private Partnership mode. A 30 kilometres stretch from Miyapur to Nagole with 24 stations, was inaugurated on 28 November 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was the longest rapid transit metro line opened in one go in India. It is estimated to cost ₹18,800 crore. As of February 2020, about 490, 000 people use the Metro per day. Trains are crowded during the morning and evening rush hours. A ladies only coach was introduced on all the trains from 7 May 2018.
context_section_description: Groundbreaking (Bhoomi Puja) for the project was conducted on 26 April 2012 the concessionaire started the pillar erection on the same day for Stage-I  and on 6 June 2012 for Stage-II. The work for Corridor 2 has been delayed due to traders in Koti and Sultan Bazar demanding realignment of the route to safeguard traders and old age heritage markets. If the recent bill proposed in Parliament which allows construction within a 100-metre radius of heritage structures and sites of historical or archaeological importance is passed, Metro might receive a chance as it helps to connect the Old city with IT corridor.
  The construction of the entire 71.16 km has been split into 6 stages with the first stage originally scheduled to be completed by March 2015
  In November 2013, L&T Hyderabad Metro started laying of rails on the metro viaduct between Nagole and Mettuguda, a stretch of 8 km.
  The first highly sophisticated train of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) came from Korea during the third week of May 2014. Stringent trial runs commenced from June 2014 till February 2015. The trial runs started on the Miyapur to Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar stretch in October 2015.
  CMRS inspection for Stage-II (Miyapur and S.R.Nagar Section) was done on 9, 10 August 2016.
  The steel bridge of the HMR was successfully placed over the Oliphant bridge in August 2017.
  In November 2017,  Commissioner of Railway Safety (CMRS) granted safety approval for  12 km stretch from Miyapur to SR Nagar, 10 km stretch from SR Nagar to Mettuguda and 8 km stretch from Nagole to Mettuguda.
  16-km Ameerpet-LB Nagar Metro stretch was opened for commercial operations from 24 September 2018.
  The Ameerpet - Hi-Tec City route was opened on conditional basis on March 20, 2019. The reversal facility after HITEC City metro station was started on 20 August 2019.
  On 19 May 2019, the construction of all the 2,599 pillars for the 66-km Hyderabad Metro rail (except the 6-km stretch in old city) was completed.
  The Green Line Corridor from Jubilee Bus Station to Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station was issued the Safety Certificate by the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety and inauguration of services on the section was done on Feb 7, 2020 by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Telangana, Sri K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
caption: Hyderabad metro towards HITEC city Cyber Towers
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