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TEST & TRIAL RUN OF HYD METRO IN COUPLE OF DAYS

The first metro train, which was rolled out from Korea to Hyderabad recently, will be put on tracks for test and trial in next couple of days. Chief Executive and Managing Director of L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, V B Gadgil, has said. Addressing a gathering of Hoteliers Tours and Travels professionals at a SKAL International Hyderabad meeting last night, he said the three coach train which reached the city in the third week of May will be put to test trial run soon. The inauguration of first phase from Nagole to Mettuguda is slated for March, 2015 a release from the organisers said. The trial run for commercial operations will commence in couple of days and people can see the trains plying from Nagole to Mettuguda, a stretch of eight-km in the first phase, on the viaduct, Gadgil said. The total Metro Rail Project was taken with the total outlay of Rs 20,000 crore, he said, adding, the project is the largest investment of L&T ever made in any one single city. The Metro Rail project when it is completed in five years span will register a record for the shortest construction period for 72 kms stretch in just five years, he said.

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